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XLII. CONNARACE/E. 
[Rourea. 
— Trees or shrubs. Leaves alternate, coriaceous, imparipinnate ; leaflets sub- 
opposite or alternate, often small and multijugate. Panicles axillary. Flowers 
small. Pedicels slender. 
Species about 43, inhabiting the tropics of Asia, Africa, America, and Australia . — From Gen. 
Plant., Ben tli. and Hook. 
1. R. brachyandra (short stamens), F. v. M. Fragm. viii. 6, x. 119. A 
glabrous lofty climber. Leaves alternate, petiole and rhachis slender. Leaflets 
3 or 5, 2 to 5in. long, coriaceo-chartaceous, lanceolate-ovate, shining on both 
sides, the nerves and veins conspicuous. Petioles 1 to 1^-in. long, the petiolules 
about 1A line long. Panicles racemose, axillary, and lateral. Pedicels about as 
long as the calyx. Bracteoles subulate-lanceolate. Calyx-lobes 5, rhomboid- 
ovate, scarcely line long. Petals 5, imbricate, white, obtuse oblong or 
spathulate, semi-exserted, glabrous, cohering at the base. Stamens 10, short, 
scarcely exceeding the calyx. Style and ovary very short. — F. v. M. l.c. 
Hab.: Rockingham Bay, J. Dallacliy, and Daintree River, E. Fitzalan (F. v. M., l.c.) ; Barron 
River scrubs, E. Cowley. 
2. TRICHOLOBUS, Blume. 
(Hairy-lobed.) 
Flowers hermaphrodite. Calyx 5-partite, valvate. Petals 5, much longer 
than the calyx, linear-lanceolate, valvate. Stamens 10, 5 longer and sometimes 
without anthers ; filaments subulate-filiform, connate at the base. Carpel 1, 
sessile, villous ; style short, filiform, stigma dilated. Capsule sessile, coriaceous, 
obovate-oblong, compressed, densely covered inside and out with itching hairs. 
Seeds arillate. Leaves imparipinnate, the young ones densely fulvous-lanuginous. 
Leaflets oblong acuminate. Panicles terminal, very densely lanuginous. Flowers 
small, shortly pedicellate, pedicels 1-bracteate. Capsule large. — Benth. and 
Hook. Gen. Plant, i, 433. 
Species few, in the Indian Archipelago and Australia. 
1. T. connaroides (Connarus-like), F. v. M. Fragm. viii. 224. A strong 
woody climber, the branches rough with lenticell*. Leaflets 3 to 5, oblong, 5 to 
8in. long, 2 or 3in. broad, densely rusty-tomentose when young. Inflorescence 
ferruginous-tomentose, the panicles often in clusters on the old wood, of irregular 
length in each cluster ; the panicles in the axils of the leaves of the new wood 
usually single and larger than the clustered ones, about 3in. long. Pedicels often 
very short. Bracts about 1| line long, narrow. Sepals narrow or oblong- 
lanceolate, 1| line long. Petals pilose, glandular-punctate. Filaments united at 
the base. Anthers minute, didymous-rotund, style about 2 lines long. Follicle- 
like capsule, obliquely pyriform, red and obliquely nerved, about lin. long 
and nearly as broad, the old ones glabrous outside, clothed with short golden 
hairs inside. Seeds solitary, flat, about 6 lines long and nearly as broad, 
ai'illate. 
Hab.: Climbing over the trees along the rivers and creeks of the tropical parts of Queensland. 
Order XLIII. LEGUMINOSjE. 
Calyx of 5 or rarely fewer, usually united sepals, companulate or tubular, 
more or less divided into 5 or fewer teeth or lobes, or rarely the sepals entirely 
distinct. Corolla of 5 or rarely fewer petals, perigynous or rarely hypogynous, 
very irregular in the first suborder, less so in the second, small, regular, and the 
petals often united in the third. Stamens twice the number of petals, rarely 
fewer or sometimes indefinite, inserted with the petals. Ovary single (consisting 
