2 NATURAL HISTORY OF PLANTS. 
a calyx of five free sepals,’ quincuncially imbricated in the bud, and a 
corolla of five alternating petals,’ also free and imbricated in the bud. 
The androceum consists of two whorls of stamens, cohering by the 
bases of the filaments, which are then free for the greater part of the 
Connarus (Omphalobium) Patrisii. 
Fria. 5. 
Fruit. 
Diagram. 
Fia. 6. 
Longitudinal section of fruit. 
length, and bear introrse two-celled anthers dehiscing by two longi- 
tudinal clefts. 
The five stamens superposed to the petals have 
usually shorter filaments and smaller anthers than in the alterni- 
petalous stamens, and their anthers may even become sterile. There 
is no true disk.* The gyneceum consists of five free oppositipetalous* 
Mise. Works, ed. Brnn., i. 113.—DC., Mém. 
sur les Connarus e¢ Omphalobium, ow sur les 
Connaracées Sarcolobées (in Mém. Soc. Hist. 
Nat. de Par., ii. 383, t. 16, 17); Prodr., ii. 84. 
—Evopt., Gen. n. 5948.—B. H., Gen., 432, 
1001, n. 5.—H, By. in Ann. de la Soc. Linn. 
de Maine-et-Loire, ix. 57; Adansonia, vii. 233. 
—Tapomana Avays., loc. cit.—Omphalobiwm 
GHrtn., Fruct., i. 217, t. 46.—DC., loc. cit., 
386.—EnDL., Gen., n. 5949.—Santaloides L., 
Fil, Zeyl., u. 408 ?—Malbrancia Nucx., Elem., 
1171.—Erythrostigma Hassx., in Bot. Zeit., 
xxv. Beibl., ii. 45; Cat. Hort. Bogor., 246.— 
Anisostemon Turcz., in Bull. Mose. (1847), ii. 
152. 
1 They are elongated, usually thickened, and 
becoming more or less succulent at the base. 
There is often a projecting dorsal rib, 
2 They are narrow and elongated, contracted 
near the base, and thinning off at the edges, by 
which they often stick together at the points of 
contact. They are always longer than the 
sepals, and usually extend a good way beyond 
them. They are almost always sprinkled with 
irregular blackish or dark purple spots. Some- 
times these are of very unequal size, and the 
limb of the petal looks like “chiné” stuff. In 
several of our herbarium species, collectors have 
remarked that the corolla is very odoriferous, 
and that its scent attracts numbers of insects. 
3 What has been described as such is pro- 
bably the circular swelling of the base of the 
androceum, which is so well marked in certain 
African species, especially in our C. Duparque- 
tianus (see Adansonia, loc. cit., 236, note 1). 
4 R. Brown thought that the fertile carpel of 
Omphalobium was superposed to a sepal, not a 
petal. But we have shown that there is in this 
respect no difference between the two types (see 
Adansonia, loc. cit., 233). 
