Gotmarus.'] Xlix. connaeace^!. (J. D. Hooker.) 51 



Prodr. ii. 86. O. indicum, G<srtn, Fruct. i. 217, t. 46, fig. 3 ; DC. I. a. 85. 

 Oonnaracea, Wall. Cat. 8539, excl. D. — Rheede, Sort. Mai. vi. t. 24 ? vii. t. 26i 



Wbstben Peninsula, from the Ooncan to Travauoor. Cbtlon, abundant. 



Leaflets 3-4 by lj-1} in., glossy, above, reticulations faint, quite glabrous, 

 Panicles densely pubescent. Flowers ^ in. long. Sepals ovate-oblong, subacute, 

 pubescent. Petals twice as long, slightly pubescent on the back. Longer filamenti 

 three times as long as the shorter, all antheriferous. Capsule dark-coloured, rounded 

 at both sutures, dehiscing tardily, contracted but neither acute nor apiculate at the 

 tip. Testa black, shining. Very near the C. oUgophylliis of Penang, but the capsule 

 is quite glabrous within. — I think there can be no doubt that this, which is clearly 

 Lamarck's C. pinnatus, is also Linnseus's C monocarpus, which b^ing, one of the 

 commonest plants in Ceylon, cannot have escaped Burmarin's notice. Wight & Axnott 

 describe it as haviUg a sessile capsule, no doubt from Eheede's figure, vrhich, if it 

 belongs to this plant, is a very bad one, also as having a glabrous calyx, which is not 

 the case. 



2. C. Wightii, Hook. f. ; leaves elliptic-ovate obtusely pointed, nerves 

 5-6 on each, side arched slender, capsulfes 1^ by % in. compressed, base narrowed 

 into the stalk shining hardly pointed. Eourea? sclerooarpa, W. ^ A. in 

 Wight Co*. 984. (See note uader Pongamia, W. 8r A. Prodr. 262.) 



Westeen Pendtsitla, Wight ; the Concan, Stocks. 



Leaflets 3-3J by l:f-l| in., coriaceous, hardly shining, finely reticulated, quite 

 glabrous. Capsules pale chestnut coloured, shining, rounded, strongly striate on the 

 ventral and dorsal faces, narrowly keeled at the sutures, early dehiscing, pale and 

 quite glabrous within. — I have described this from a fruiting specimen. The capsule 

 resembles that of C. pamffUlatits, but is quite glabrous within. 



3. O. Ritchlel, Hook. /: ; leaflets eUiptic-Ianceolate obtusely acuminate, 

 nerves 5-7 on each side faint, capsule | by | in. turgidly oblong rounded at the 

 top, base cordate. 



Westebn PeninstiUl, the Concan, Stocks ;. the Ealnghat near Belgaum, Ritokie. 



Leaflets 3-4 by Ij-lJ- in., finely reticulated,, quite glabrous. Panicles rusty- 

 pubescent. Flowers crowded, | in. long. Sepals ovate-oHong. Petals about twice a 

 long. CapsvXe quite as broad from suture to suture as across the valves, dark- 

 Coloured, intruded at the base, which is very rounded, and suddenly contracted into 

 the stalk. — The capsule much resembles that of C Idtifolmis, WaU., but is more 

 cordate at the base and larger. 



** Valves of the capsules more or less pubescent or velvety within (un- 

 known in C Crriffithii wxdi semidecamdrus. 

 t Leaflets more or less pubescent beneath. 



4. C. ferrugflneus, Jack in Mai. Misc. 2, vii. 37; branches panicles 

 and leaves beneath densely rusty tomentose, leaflets 7 oblong or oblanceolate 

 acuminate rugose, capsules 2-2 J by Ij in. compressed velvety narrowed into the 

 stalk; — 'Oonnaracea, Wail. Cat. 8530. 



Eastern PeninspiiA, Sincapore, Malacca, and Penang, Jack, 4'c. 



Densely clothed with riisty velvety tomeritum. Leaflets 3-6 by 1 J-2|- in., thickly 

 coriaceous, rugose, and pubescent a.bove vfhen young, glabrate above when old, base 

 rounded or subcordate ; p6tiolules very short and stout; nerves 6-8 pairs, arched, 

 very much sunk abbVe' and raised beneath. . Panicles shorter than the leaves, very 

 stout. Flowers nearly ^ in. long. Sepals oblong. Petals twice as long, narrowly 

 linear-spathulate. Filalnents glabrous, shorter, half as long as the others. Capsule 

 almost woody, readily dehiscing, hardly pointed, densely tomentose, valves finely 

 pnbescent within. 



e2 



