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XLVI. CONNARACE^E. 
[Connarus. 
Order XLVI. CONNARACE/E. 
Scandent shrubs with pinnate leaves, or trees with simple 
leaves (one leaflet) (Ellipanthus). Flowers small in axillary racemes, 
panicles or cymes, rarely unisexual. Calyx 5-lobed, usually per¬ 
sistent, often pink. Petals 5, linear or oblong, white, imbricate. 
Stamens 5 or 10, those opposite petals shorter and imperfect; 
filaments connate at base or free. Disc o or small. Pistils 5, rarely 
more or fewer, ovoid, hairy, i-celled; ovules 2; styles filiform. 
Fruit 1 to 3; follicles often stalked dehiscing on lower edge, usually 
red. Seed 1 (rarely 2) arillate. All tropics (King, Jo urn. /Is. 
Soc. Beng. lxvi, (2), p. 1). 
Pistil 1. 
Leaves pinnate; climbers ... 
Leaflets 1; trees ...... 
Pistils 5, 1 only perfect; leaves pinnate. 
Calyx lobes persistent, accrescent imbricate in fruit 
Calyx lobes not accrescent or imbricate 
Pistils 2 to 5, perfect. 
Calyx imbricate; follicles rugose or tubercled 
Calyx valvate; follicles smooth .... 
Pistils 5 to 7; follicles 1 to 3 . 
1 . CONNARUS, Linn. 
Sarmentose or scandent shrubs. Leaves unequally pinnate; 
leaflets 5 or 3, rarely more, coriaceous. Panicles terminal or 
axillary. Flowers small, numerous, white or pink. Sepals 5, 
imbricate. Petals 5, linear. Stamens 10, 5 shorter, and usually 
antherless. Ovary 1, pubescent; style slender. Stigma capitate; 
follicle oblique, stipitate, broadest at the tip, red or yellow, often 
pubescent inside. Seed 1, flat, oblong, arillate. Species about 80, 
tropical Asia, Africa and America. 
Leaves beneath pubescent. 
Leaves above pubescent, beneath densely red- 
pubescent; follicles tomentose . . (1) C. ferrugineus 
Leaves above and follicles glabrous; petals 
glabrous. . ..(2) C. semidecandrus 
Leaves more rigid; petals tomentose . . (3) C. Griffithii 
Leaflets quite glabrous, ovate to elliptic lanceolate, 
2 to 4 in. long. 
Follicles sub-cylindric narrowed to base 1*5 by 
•25 in.; leaflets ovate stiff. . . . (4) C. oligophyllus 
Follicles flat, rounded, oblong, 1*25 by 1 in.; 
leaflets elliptic cuspidate, rather thin . . (5) C. villosus 
Leaves over 6 in. long. 
Panicles lax, over 9 in. across; leaflets rather 
thin ; fruit 2 in. long, obovoid, tip recurved. (6) C. ellipticus 
Panicle about 7 in. long; leaflets stiff cori¬ 
aceous; pod oblanceolate, tip blunt not 
recurved, 2 in, long . . . . . (7) C. grandis 
1. Connarus 
2. Ellipanthus 
3. Rourea 
4. Roureopsis 
5. AGELiEA 
6 . T.eniochuena 
7. Cnestis 
