MorinffaJ] 



35. MOEINGEiE. 



119 



Forests of the Western Himalaya and Oudh, cnltivatod elsewhere 

 throughout India. PI. Jany.-Apl. Fr. A pi. onwards. Bark grey, corky, 

 with longitudinal cracks. "Wood soft, white, spongy. Fruit used as a 

 vegetable. The root is used as a substitute for horse-radish. 



2. M. concanensis, Nimmoin Grah. Cat. Bomb. PL 43 ; Fl, Br. I. 2, 

 45 ; Brandis For. Fl. 130 ; Dalz. & Gibs. Bomb. F]. 311. MJma, Sindhi. 



Rajputana, Sind, and the Konkan (Thana District). Fl. Nov. -Dec. 

 Fr. Dec. onwards. A tree with thick, soft, corky bark. Wood white, 

 soft, useless as a timber. 



Order 36. CONNARACE^. 



Shrubs or trees, climbing or erect. Leaves alternate, exstipulate, 

 l-3-£oliate or odd-pinnate. Flowers bisexual, in racemes or panicles. 

 Calyx 5-dividedj usually persistent^ imbricate or valvate. Petals 5. 

 Stamens 5-10, sometimes declinate, those opposite the petals often 

 shorter and imperfect ; filaments frequently connate at the base. 

 Carpels 5^ rarely more or less, hairy, 1 -celled ; styles subulate or 

 filiform ; stigmas capitellate, simple or lobed ; ovules 2, collateral. 

 Fruit of 1, rarely 2-3, sessile or stalked, usually 1-seeded follicles. 

 Seed arillate or not, aril various ; cotyledons fleshy in the exalbuminous, 

 leafy in the albuminous seeds, radicle superior. 



Calyx accrescent. Capsule sessile ... ... 1. Eotjeea. 



Calyx not accrescent. Capsule pedicellate ... 2. Connar[TS, 



1. ROUREA, Aubl. 



Trees or shrubs. Leaves odd-pinnate. Panicles axillary. Sepals 

 5, orbicular, imbricate, accrescent in fruit. Petals 6. Stamens ]0 ; 

 filaments connate at the base. Ovaries 5-4, usually imperfect ; styles 

 4-5 slender. Fruit a sessile, apiculate capsule. Seed erect, arillate, 

 exalbaminous. 



R. santaloides, W. & A. Prod. 144 ; Fl. Br. 1.2. 47; Dalz. & Gibs. 

 Bom. Fl. 63. Huleshadla halUy K. 



Western Peninsula from the Konkan to Travancore, Ceylon. In the 

 forests of the Konkan and North K4nara. Fl. Dec.-Mch. Fr. Feb. -July. 



A large climbing shrub, branches sometimes developed into stout tendrils , 

 Seed surrounded with a transparent fleshy arillus. Wood of abnormal 

 structure. Central cylinder of reddish, tough, moderately hardwood, 

 surrounded with a moderately thick red bark. Pores small and scanty 

 near the pith, large and numerous near the edge. Outside the central 

 cylinder are woody bodies of similar structure surrounded also with bark. 

 Resembles the structure of Sergania, (Sapindacece) figured by Duchatre 

 in his Elements de Botanique, p. 240. 



2. CONNARUa 



Trees or shrubs. Leaves odd-pinnate ; leaflets usually 6. Flowers 

 small in axillary and terminal branched panicles, Sej^als 5, not 



