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with glandular hairs, petals erect; with inflexed margins. 

 Stamina five, erect, shorter than the petals, alternating with 

 five pair of villous corpuscules which are large and distinct 

 in the male flower, very small in the hermaphrodite. Ovary 

 five-lobed, lobes monosporous ; in the male very small and 

 abortive. Style one, short, curved. Stigmata five, thick 

 recurved. Capsules from three to five, nearly ovate, smooth, 

 bursting on one side, one seeded. Seed naked, (without 

 aril or caruncle) exalbuminous. 



Obs. — The corpuscules interposed between the stamina 

 are remarkable in the male flower, being roundish erect 

 yellow bodies, with somewhat the appearance of abortive 

 anthers ; in the hermaphrodite, however, they become sim- 

 ple scales. The genus differs from Cnestis in the number 

 of the stamina, the single style, and the smoothness of the 

 capsule ; and from Connarus in the number of the ovaries 

 and stigmas, and the want of the umbilical caruncula. 



CONNARUS. Linn, 



This genus with Cnestis has been removed by Mr. R. 

 Brown from the Terebintaceae of Jussieu, and formed into 

 a separate and very natural family under the name of Con- 

 naraceae. They are rather a numerous tribe in the Malay 

 islands, and besides the following species of Connarus and 

 Cnestis, I have to add the new genus Eurycoma, which ap- 

 pears to be sufficiently distinct from both the former. I am 

 doubtful whether the species which I have refered to Cnes- 

 tis really belong to that genus, as they have all smooth cap- 

 sules with arilled or carunculate seeds, or whether they 

 ought not to be separated from those whose capsules are 

 clothed with prurient hair. Some confusion appears also to 

 have existed between the species of Cnestis and Connarus, 

 the ripe capsules of the former being often solitary from the 

 abortion of the remaining ovaries, and I am much inclined 

 to think that Connarus santaloides and mimosoides of Vahl 



