328 CONNARACEE. : [ Cnestis. 
6. C. grandis, Jack ; H.f. Ind. Fl. ii. 53.—A moderately sized 
tree, all parts glabrous; beets unpaired-pinnate, the petiole very a 
stout ; leaflets in 1 or 2 pairs with an odd one, very large (8-14 in. 
long), = vada mitiints to elliptically oblong, on short stout petiol- | 
ules, bluntish acuminate or blunt, thick coriaceous, polished, the . 
transverse nerves distinct beneath ; flowers } in. long, in spreading 
greyish puberulous panicles ; sepals linear-oblong, blunt ; petals 4 
twice as long, linear, dilated upwards, almost glabrous ; filamen ts 
puberulous, the alternate ones 3 times ‘longer ; follicles oblique, con- 
tracted into the stalk, rounded at the sutures, about 2 in. long bs 
#-1 broad, turgid, » woody, glabrous, coarsely striate — acco’ 
ing to J. ack), r 
Has.—Tenasserim or Andaman Islands {according to Hooker). 
CNESTIS, Juss. 
Flowers polygamously dioecious. Calyx 5-parted, the sepals ee 
valvate, persistent and spreading under the fruit. Petals5, shorter 
than the calyx. Stamens 10, almost equal ; filaments filiform, 3 
. Carpels 5, sessile, the styles short. Follicles 1 or 2, 4 
ceous. Arillus none. Albumen fleshy.—Little trees or ‘apually ; 
scandent shrubs, with pinnate eaves: the leaflets in numerous pairs. 
Flowers solitary or clustered, in small racemes or rarely in panicles 
axillary or from the branches. i 
Scandent shrub ; ; sepals a line long; leaflets nse opposite . . C. platantha. | 
of 
= often alternate . » . . C. ramifiora. 
. C. platantha, Griff. —Taw-hyet-louk or _fyet-mouk-nee. —A 
iesas scandent shrub, in dry situations remaining low, all softer 
mentose or pubescent ; leaves unpaired-pinnate, the rachis 
and petiole tomentose ; leaflets i in numerous pairs with an odd one, 
opposite or nearly so, obion ng or nearly so, often a little rhomboid, 
on a very short thick tomentose petiolule or almost sessile, varying 
in size from 1 to 3 in. long, blunt or shortly and bluntish acumi- 
nate, rounded or almost cordate at the usually wae = oblique 
= : = the leaves scinaelvee and much sKarier than them ; linear- 
oblong, pubescent, slightly imbricate at the base or sista valvate, _ 
out a lin. long ; 5, occasionally 6, linear-oblong, blunt or 
ee notched, as long as the sepals, glabrous ; carpels 5-7, tonen™ * 
3 follicles’ oblo ng-lanceolate, often paired, sessile, bluntish a ? 
