C0NNARACE.2E. 
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down the side. Carpels 5, distinct, villose, each narrowed into a short 
style, usually only one maturing ; ovules 2, collateral, ascending ; stigma 
capitate. Fruit an oblique rugose coriaceous follicle, dehiscing down 
the dorsal suture. Seed solitary, often arillate. — Trees or shrubs, with 
alternate usually compound leaves, entire coriaceous opposite leaflets 
and minute flowers in panicles or racemes. Distrib. Eound the world 
in the tropics. Species 140. 
Leaflets 3 ; flowers in ample terminal panicles ; stamens 5 . . 1 . Ageljea. 
Leaflets numerous, flowers in fascicled racemes from the old wood ; 
stamens 10 2. Cnestis. 
1. AGrELiEA, Solan d. 
Flowers regular, hermaphrodite. Sepals 5, oblong-lanceolate, distinct, 
slightly imbricated in bud. Petals 5, free, lanceolate. Disk minute. 
Stamens in our plant 5, included ; filaments filiform ; anthers oblong. 
Carpels 5, pilose, narrowed gradually into the style, generally only one 
maturing. Fruit a coriaceous rugose oblique follicle, opening down the 
lower half of the dorsal suture. — Climbing shrubs, with trifoliolate 
leaves, broad entire leaflets, and very copious minute flowers in ample 
terminal panicles. Distrib. Tropics of the Old World. Species 9. 
1. A. Lamarckii, Planch, in Linn, xxiii. 438. A woody climber, 
without tendrils. Leaves long-petioled, alternate, exstipulate ; leaflets 
3, orbicular or ovate-cuspidate, 2-4 in. long, entire, coriaceous, glabrous ; 
side ones stalked, opposite, rather oblique. Panicle f foot long, with 
dense erecto-patent thyrsoid branches ; pedicels very short. Sepals y in. 
long, persistent, silky on the back, coriaceous. Petals a little longer. Fol- 
licle obliquely turbinate, \ in. long, rugose, finely brown-velvety. 
Cnestis obliqua, Bojer, Hort. Maur. 84, non Beauv. Connarus pinnatus, 
Lam. Omphalobium pentagynum, D.C. Prod. ii. 86. 
Mauritius, in the woods of Flacq and the Savanne range. Also Madagascar and 
Zambesi land. Bois Haricot. 
2. CNESTIS, Juss. 
Flowers polygamous. Sepals 5, lanceolate, connate at the base, re- 
flexing, persistent. Petals 5, lingulate with a claw. Stamens 10, 
hypogynous ; filaments subulate ; anthers globose, minute. Carpels 5, 
distinct, sessile, villose, narrowed into a short style, usually only one 
maturing; stigma terminal. Fruit a silky coriaceous follicle. — Woody 
climbers, with imparipinnate leaves, the flowers in small fascicled 
racemes from the old wood. Distrib. Spread through the tropics of 
the Old World. Species 10. 
Leaflets large, flat, glabrous, cuneate at the base . . . . 1. C. glabra. 
Leaflets smaller, bullate, downy below, cordate at the base . 2. C. polyphylla. 
1. C. glabra, Lam. III. t. 387. A robust woody climber, 
without tendrils, reaching to the top of high trees ; branchlets and leaves 
entirely glabrous. Leaves 1 foot long, distinctly petioled ; leaflets 9- 
