16 NATURAL HISTORY OF PLANTS. 
GENERA. 
I. CONNAREA. 
1. Connarus L.—F lowers hermaphrodite ; receptacle conical, or 
slightly depressed at apex. Sepals 5, imbricated in estivation, per- 
sistent or deciduous. Petals 5, longer than the sepals, and alterna- 
ting with them, free, sometimes cohering by the margins, imbricated 
in estivation. Stamens 10, 5 longer alternipetalous, 5 shorter oppo- 
sitipetalous ;. filaments connate close to more or less thickened and 
disciform base, monadelphous, later free filiform; anthers 2-celled 
introrse, dehiscing longitudinally, finally reflexed or versatile; in 
oppositipetalous stamens, sometimes sterile or wanting. Carpels 5, 
oppositipetalous; 1-4 usually smaller, sooner or later aborting ; 
fertile ovary 1-celled, tapering into a terminal style, with dilated 
stigmatiferous apex. Ovules 2, collateral, inserted ata variable 
distance from base of cell, orthotropous or suborthotropous ; umbilicus 
basilar or more or less lateral; micropyle superior. Fruit dry 
capsular stipitate; calyx either persistent, not accrescent, embrac- 
ing the stalk, or deciduous, its position marked by scars; pericarp 
oblique oblong, obtuse or slightly apiculate, coriaceous, dehiscing by 
ventral suture, l-seeded. Seed suberect, furnished at base with a 
more or less lateral fleshy lobed aril; testa externally smooth 
shining; embryo inverted exalbuminous ; cotyledons thick, fleshy 
amygdaloid ; radicle short, superior.—Trees or shrubs, often sub- 
scandent ; leaves alternate imparipinnate, or more rarely 3-foliolate, 
evergreen exstipulate ; flowers minute crowded in simple or oftener 
very much branched cymiferous racemes; pedicels usually articu- 
lated (Zropical America Africa and Asia, Indian Archipelago, South 
Sea Islands). See p. 1. 
2. Ageleea Soranp.—Flowers hermaphrodite, either altogether 
similar to or scarcely differing from those of Connarus ; calyx 5-, or 
more rarely 3, 4-partite; sepals imbricated, subvalvate or valvate. 
Petals 5, or more rarely 3, 4, free or connate, either oblong or lanceo- 
late, or more rarely ligulate long filiform. Stamens 10 (of Connarus) ; 
5 or more rarely 3, 4 alternipetalous, often sterile or antherless ; fila- 
