440 XXXII. GEHAMACEiE. (Edgeworth & Hook, f.) [Connaropsis. 



regular, in terminal and axillary panicled cymes. Sepals 5, imbricate, connate 

 at the base. Fetals 5, imbricate. Glands 0. iStamem 10, filaments united 

 at tbe base, the alternate shorter. Ovary 6-angled, 5-celled ; styles 5, 

 subulate, stigmas apiculate ; ovules 2 in each cell. Fruit fleshy, 5-lobed.— 

 DiSTBiB. Three species, all from the Malayan archipelago. 



1. C. monopbylla, Planch, in Herb. Hook. ; leaves 1-foliolate, leaflets 

 ovate obtusely acuminate shining above glaucous beneath, panicles pube- 

 rulous of slender spiciform erect branches. 



Malacca, Griffith, Ouming, Maingay. 



A small round-headed tree. Leaflets 2-3 in., quite entire ; petiole J in., slender. 

 Panicles 3-5 in. long. Sepals pubescent. Corolla subureeolate ; petals oblong, blood- 

 red, tips subrecurved. Ovary pilose. Fruit obtusely angled, 5-lurrowed ; endocarp 

 fibrous, sending outwards fibres wbich reticulately divide the saicocarp. Albumen 

 copious; embryo green, radicle terete. (Descr. chiefly from Griffith's notes.) 



2. C. Griffithil, Planch, in Herb. Hook.; leaves 3-foliolate ovate or 

 elliptic-lanceolate long-acuminate opaque above, panicles short broad 

 tomentose. Hook.f. in Trans. Linn. Soc. xxiii. 166 (name omly). 



Malacca, Griffiih, Maingay. 



A small tree. Branches woody, bark black. Leaflets 2J-3J in., pale, pubescent, as 

 are their short petioles ; nerves remote ; petiole | in., that of the leaflets J in. Jnflcres- 

 cence ferruginous. Flowers usually all autheriferous. Stamens usually on the old wocid, 

 4 in. long, brown purple. Fruit 2 in., yellow. — Kurz {Journ. As. Soc. Bengal, 1870, 

 ii. 69), considers that this should bear the name of C. aiversifolia, because it was fir.st 

 desciibed as Rowrea diversifolia by Miquel {Fl. Ind. Bat. Suppl. 528), a view I cannot 

 adopt, seeing that Miquel put it not only in a wrong genus, but in a wrong Natural 

 Order, and that the trivial name diversifolia is not applicable. Moreover, I doubt C 

 Griffithil being the same with Miquel s plant, which latter has lucid leaves, whereas 

 those of C. Griffithii are singularly opaque. — Fruit acid, eaten cooked, pickled or pre- 

 served with sugar. Leaves irritable to the touch. 



8. XnZFATXEXfS, Linn. (By J. D. Hooker.) 



Herbs, rarely shrubby at the base. Leaves opposite or alternate, in some 

 virhorled, in others aU radical, simple, exstipulate, or with stipular glands 

 at the base of the petiole. Flowers in scapes, or in axiUary or terminal 

 1-2-many-flowered peduncles, irregular, resupinate. Sepals 3 rarely 6, im- 

 bricate ; 2 anterior when present minute ; 2 lateral small, flat, usually 

 green ; posterior (anterior in flower) large, petaloid, produced into a hollow 

 spur or sac. Petals 3 (or 5) ; anterior (outer in bud) large ; lateral 2-lobed 

 (or 2 connate). Stamens 5, filaments short, broad ; anthers cohering. Disk 0. 

 Ovary oblong, 5-celled ; stigma sessile, 6-toothed ; ovules many, 1-seriate in 

 each cell. Capsule loculicidal ; valves 5, elastically springing away from a 

 placentiferous axis. Seeds smooth or tubercled, glabrous or hairy, albu- 

 men ; embryo straight.— Disteib. Mountains of trop. Asia and Africa, rare 

 in temp. Europe, K America, N. Asia, and S. Africa; species about 150. 



The species of JjTipoiJeBS are difficult of determination, in a dried state especially ; 

 and for Beddome's I am chiefly dependent on his published plates. Minute flowers 

 fertilized in the bud occur in some species apart from tbe others. The following 

 arrangement is that suggested by myself in the Journal of the Linnean Society, vol. iv. 

 p. 106 (Deo. 1859), with the addition of the Peninsula species subsequently described by 

 Beddome, and with the important change consequent on dividing the genus into two 

 principal groups, a Himalayan, with slender terete or obovate capsules, and a chiefly 

 Peninsular group, with the capsule short and swollen in the middle. To avoid ver- 

 biage I shall employ the same terms used in that arrangement, of Sepals for the 2 



