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THE QUEENSLAND FLORA. 
Order XLII. CONNARACEjE. 
Flowers usually hermaphrodite, regular or nearly so. Calyx 5-fid, or 4 or 
5-partite, often persistent, valvate or imbricate. Petals 5, ligulate and longer 
than the calyx or rotundate-cuneate and shorter, usually imbricate, free or 
slightly coherent. Stamens perigynous or hypogynous, 5 or more usually 10, 
the alternate ones in that case (those opposite the petals) considerably shorter 
than the others and frequently imperfect ; filaments filiform, often monadelphous 
at the base ; anthers short, didymous, the dehiscence introrse, sometimes turned 
round at length. Disk none or thin, surrounded by the base of the stamens. 
Carpels usually 5, rarely 1 to 3, hairy, 1-celled. Style subulate or filiform ; 
stigma subcapitate, simple or 2-lobed. Ovules 2, collateral, ascending from the 
base of the inner angle of the cell, orthotropous. Capsule usually solitary, sessile 
or stipitate, follicular, dehiscing usually in front, rarely on the back, 1 or very 
rarely 2-seeded. Seeds erect, with or without an arillus or with the testa 
arilliform below the middle. Embryo either exalbuminous with amygdaloid 
cotyledons or albuminous with foliaceous cotyledons, the radicle superior or very 
rarely ventral. — Trees or climbing or erect shrubs. Leaves persistent or deci- 
duous, alternate, exstipulate, simple or imparipinnate, with 1 or many pairs of 
leaflets ; leaflets subcoriaceous or coriaceous, always entire. Flowers small and 
inconspicuous, racemose or paniculate. Capsule glabrous or pilose internally. — 
Benth. and Hook. Gen. PI. and J. G. Baker in FI. Trop. Africa. 
A small Order, universally dispersed through the tropics and scarcely passing beyond them. 
Tribe I. Connarea s.— Sepals imbricate in (estivation. Seeds exalbuminous, arillate. 
Calyx clasping the fruit or its stalk. Capsule sessile, the fruit-calyx dilated . 1. Rourea. 
Tribe II Cnestideae. — Sepals valvate in (estivation. Seeds albuminous. 
Calyx 5-partite. Stamens 10. Carpel 1. Capsule pubescent inside .... 2. Tricholobds. 
1. ROUREA, Aubl. 
(Cayenne name.) 
Calyx 5-partite, lobes orbicular, imbricate, enlarged and clasping the base of 
the ripe capsule. Petals 5, usually linear-oblong. Stamens 10; filaments fili- 
form, connate in a ring at the base. Anthers didymous. Ovaries 5, 4 usually 
imperfect, styliform ; fertile style straight, subulate, slender ; stigma capitellate. 
Capsule sessile, curved, 1-seedod, chartaceous. Seed erect, arillate, exalbuminous. 
Part IJ. B 
