54 XLix. CONNAKACEJ;. (J. D. Hooker.) [GonTWjrm. 



BOTJBTPTIIi BPBCEBS. 



C. SPECIES? leaflets S-8 in. elliptic and stout, tranches almost Hack a,nd very 

 polished, nerves 7-8 pair very strong beneath, panicle slender hoajy, sepals ovate- 

 lanceolate, petils glabrous.— Sincapore or Penang, Walker. 



C. SPECIES ? leaflets as in C. pimatus, but nerves beneath very strong.— AnamaJlajr t 

 hills, alt. 3000 ft., Beddome. 



CoNNAETJS? vEtuTimrs, Wall. CaU 8536, consists of foliage and diseased fruit of 

 a Spathohbue, with one capsule oiElH^antlms tomentoms, H. f. 



CoNNABTis? Jackiantts, Wall. Cat. 8552, is Cupania Jackiana, mem. 



CoNNAEUs MiMosoiDES, VaU Symb. iii. 87 ; I^C. Prodr. ii. 85, from the Nicobar 

 Islands is indeterminate from description. 



5. CKESTIS, Juss. 



Shrubs or trees. Leaves odd-piimatei leaflets many, qviite entire. Flowers 

 solitary, fascicled or racemed, tomentose, rarely panicled, polygamous or dice-, 

 cious, rotate. Sepals 6, valvate or imbricate at the tip, spreajiing in fruit. Petak 

 5, shorter, or longer than the calyx. Stamens 10, free. Ovaries 5r-7, sessile;, 

 styles short, stigmas capiteljate. Qapmles 1-3, kidney-Bliaped,_ cyjindrie 

 curved or waved, pubescent, often villous or clothed ■svith rigid hairs vrithinj 

 Seed ezarillate, albumen fleshy ; cotyledons thin. — Distrib. Tropical Asia and 

 Africa ; species about 10. 



1. C. ramlflora, Oriff. Notul. iv. 432 ; softly tomentose or villous, leaf- 

 lets 12-16-pairs linear-oblong, tip rounded obtuse or suliacute, base rounded ai 

 cordate. 0. flaminea. Griff. I.e. 433, t. 608, f. 2. 0. platantha, Griff. I.e. 434;: 

 Kwz in Jour. As. Soc. Beng. 1870," pt. ii. 76. Oonnarus foliolosua. Jack in WaUi 

 Cat. 8629. 0. igneus, Wall. Cat. 8528, (Oonnaracea). Eourea dasyphyUa, Miq^ 

 Fl. Ind. Bat. Svppl. 528. 



BiEMA, at Amherst, Chappedong and Rangoon, Wallich. Tknasseeim, at Mergui, 

 Griffith. MoTJLMBiN and the S. Andamahs, Kurz, &c. Penanq, Maiacca and 

 Singapore, Wallich, Griffith, &e. — Disteib. Sumatra, Philippine Islands. 



A climbing shrub. Branches stout, woody. Leaves 1 ft. ; petiole slender, pube- 

 scent ; leaflets subsessile, 1^3 in., sometimes contracted below the middle, glabrous 

 and shining above; nerves 6-10 pairs, slender, arched. Panicles axillary, fascicled, 

 slender, much shorter than the leaves, densely clothed with pale soft tomentum. Flowers 

 S 5 in. diam., rosy, $ smaller. Sepals Hnear-oblong, obtuse. Petals shorter in the 

 $ , longer in the 9 , linear^oblong, obtuse or emarginate, glabrous. Filaments slender, 

 glabrous. Ovaries 5-7 (usually 6, Griffith), hirsute ; styles short. Capsules 1-3 in. 

 long, sessile, falcate, enlarged and tumid above the middle, obtuse, woody, rugged ; 

 valves thickly woody, velvety within. Seed short, broad, compressed, testa thin. — 

 I think there can be no doubt but. that this answers to the three species of Cnestis 

 deieribed by Griffith and cited above, though his names are not attached to any of 

 his specimens. It has been distributed as Cnestis foliolosus and C. igneus. Planch, 

 MSS. in Herb. Hook. 



6. Ta:inOCKI.a:NA, Hook. f. 



A rambling shrub. Leaves odd-pinnate, glabrous ; leaflets 5, quite entire. 

 Panicles axillary, short. Flowers hermaphrodite. Calyx-tiibe short, hemisplieric, 

 segments 6, enlarged and reyolute in Bruit, valvate. Petals 6, much exceeding 

 the calyx. Stamens 10, alternately shorter, nearly free at tjie base. Ovaries 6, 



