46 xijx. connaeacbj:. (J. D. Hooker.) lAgelcm. 



Oedee XLIX. COKNARACESE:. (By J. D. Hooker.) 



Erect or climbing shrubs or trees. Leaves alternate, exstipulate, 1-3-folio- 

 late or odd-pinnate ; leaflets quite entire. Flowers racemed or panicled, regvflar 

 or subregular, usually bisexual. Cali/x 5-lobed or -partite, usually persistent, 

 imbricate or valvate. Petals 6, usiiafly narrow, free or sligMy cohtering, very 

 larejy valvate. Stamens perigynous or hypogynous, sometimes declinate, 5 or 

 10, tiiose opposite the pfetals often shorter and imperfect ; filaments frequently 

 connate at the base. Disk 0, or small annular or incomplete. Carpels 5, rarely 

 1-3 or 6-7, globose, hirsute, 1-celled ; styles subulate or filiform, stigmas 

 capitellate simple or 2-lobed ; ovules 3, collateral, ascending, orthotropous. 

 Fi-uit usually of 1 rarely 2-3 sessile or stalked 1- rarely 2-seeded follicles. 

 Seed erect, arillate or not, testa thick sometimes arilliform below the middle, 

 aril various ; cotyledons fleshy in the exalbuminous, leafy in the albuminous 

 seeds, radicle superior, rarely ventral. — Disibib. 12 genera, all tropical. 



The following Wallichian species of this order are to be rejected. 



CoNNAEACEA, Wall. Cat. 8638, B. is an undeterminable apparently Connaraceous 

 plant. 



CoNNAEACEA ? Wall. Cat. 8534, is Dialium platysepalum. Baker. 



CoNNAKAOEA ? Wall. Cat. 8550, is Cwpania glahrata, Kurz. 



CoNNABACEA ? Wall. Cat. 8553, consists of the foliage of a Willmighbeia, and 

 fruit of a Coun-arus. 



Tribe I. Connareee. Calyx imbricate. Seeds exalbuminous. 



Calyx not dasping the base of the capsule. Seeds exariUate . 1. AgelJiA. 



Calyx accrescent, clasping the base of the sessile capsule. 



Seeds arillate ..... ... 2. Kourka. 



'Calj'X slightly accrescent, not clasping the base of the sessile 



capsule. Seeds exarillate 3. Eoureopsis. 



■Calyx not accrescent, clasping the pedicel of the stipitate cap- 

 sule. , Seeds arillate 4. Connaetjs. 



Teibe II. Cnestidese. Calyx valvate. Seeds albuminous or exalbu- 

 minous. 



Calyx 5-partite, exceeding the petals. Carpels 5, sessile. Cap- 

 sule hispid -within. Seeds albuminous 5. Cnestis. 



Calyx 5-partite, revolute. Petals narrow. Carpels 6. Seeds ex- 

 albuminous .6. TjiNIOCHtJEXA. 



Calyx 6-partite, erect. Petals oblong. Stamens 5, perfect. 



Carpel 1. Seeds exalbuminous . ' 7. Ellipantecs. 



1. AG-EEiSiA, Soland. 



Erect or scandent shrabs. Leaves 3-foliolate. Panicles or racemes axillary. 

 Calyx 6-partite, not accrescent nor embracing the fruit, imbricate or subvalvate. 

 Petals lanceolate or ligulate, obtuse, free or connate at the middle. Stamens 5 

 or 10. Dislc i-annular or 0. Carpels 3-5. Capsules 1-2, sessile or shortly 

 stalked, coriaceous, rugose or lamellate. Seed erect, exalbuminous; testa 

 ariUiform below the middle.— Disteib. 9 species, African and Asiatic. 



1. A. vestita, Hooh.f. ; branches leaves beneath and inflorescence densely 

 tomentose, leaflets elliptic obtusely caudate-acuminate, stamens 5, styles 5 vei-j' 



