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GONNAUACJEM. 



Conspectus of Genera. 



Trib. I. CONNARE2E. Calyx imbricate. Seeds without albumen. 



Rourea. Sepals enlarged in fruit, imbricately-cupular. Follicle sessile. Seeds 

 arillate. 



Roureopsis. Sepals enlarging, more or less spreading in fruit ; follicle sessile. 



Connarus. Sepals not enlarging or deciduous. Follicle stalked. Seeds arillate. 



Trib. II. CNESTIDE^. Calyx valvate, 5 -parted. Seeds with, or without albu- 

 men. 



x Seeds with albumen. 



Cnestis. Carpels 5 — 7, sessile, pilose or hispid within. Leaves unpaired pinnate, 

 x x Seeds without albumen. 



T^niochl^na. Sepals refiexed in fruit. Carpels 5, sessile, glabrous within. 

 Leaves unpaired pinnate. 



Ellipanthus. Sepals erect. Carpels solitary, tomentose or velvety within. 

 Leaves 1-foliolate. 



Rourea, Aubl. 

 Conspectus of Species. 



* All parts quite glabrous. Leaflets in few (not above 6J pairs, acuminate. 



Leaflets \\ — 2 in. long, the rachis and petiolules very slender, E. pulchella. 



Leaflets 5 — 3 in. long, the rachis and petiolules stout, E. commutata. 



* * Inflorescence, leaf -rachis, and often the leaflets beneath puberulous or shortly 



pilose. Leaflets in numerous pairs, small, usually retuse or rounded. 



x Sepals erect and cupular- closing. 



Leaflets pubescent or pilose beneath, E. villosa. 



Leaflets glabrous on both sides, E. Wallichiana. 



x x Sepals spreading. 

 Leaflets obliquely ovate or obovate, 2-lobed at the summit, E. stenopetala. 



1. E. pulchella, Planch, in Linn. XXIII. 419 ; Miq. PI. Ind. Bot. 

 1/2. 658 ; Hf . Ind. PL II. 48. 



Hab. Tenasserim, Mergui (Griff.). 



2. R. commutata, Planch, in Linn. XXIII. 420 ; Hf . Ind. PL II 

 47 {Cnestis monadelplia, Eoxb. PL Ind. II. 454). 



Yar. /5. plueljuga, leaves not rarely abruptly pinnate, leaflets in 4 — 6 

 rarely in 3 pairs. 



Hab. Not unfrequent in the tropical forests of Martaban and Tenas- 

 serim down to the Andamans ; also Chittagong ; var. (3. Andamans. — PL 

 May, June. 



3. E. yillosa, Plancb. in Linn. XXIII. 422 ; Hf. Ind. PL II. 48. 

 Hab. Apparently frequent in Tenasserim, from Moulmein southwards. 



— Fr. March. 



4. E. Wallichiana, Planch, in Linn. XXIII. 421 ; Hf. Ind. PL 

 II. 49. 



Hab. Tenasserim (teste Hf.). 



