. Indian trees : an account of trees, shrubs, woody climbers, bamboos, and palms indigenous or commonly cultivated in the British Indian Empire. Trees. 212 XLIV. CONNARACEiE [Connarus Western Ghats from tlie Koiikaii soutliwards. Fl. Febrnary-Juno Ceylon, dry region. 2. C. RitcMei, Hook, f. Gliats of the Konkan and North Kanara/x>roha"bly albo further south. A shrnb, possibly albo climbing. Fl. crowded, petals ^-J in., cap- sule oblongj rounded at the top, base cordate. 3. C. Wiglitii, Hook, f. A lotty climber^ common in the eyergreeii Ghat forests of INorth Kanara and Belganm. Leaflet
. Indian trees : an account of trees, shrubs, woody climbers, bamboos, and palms indigenous or commonly cultivated in the British Indian Empire. Trees. 212 XLIV. CONNARACEiE [Connarus Western Ghats from tlie Koiikaii soutliwards. Fl. Febrnary-Juno Ceylon, dry region. 2. C. RitcMei, Hook, f. Gliats of the Konkan and North Kanara/x>roha"bly albo further south. A shrnb, possibly albo climbing. Fl. crowded, petals ^-J in., cap- sule oblongj rounded at the top, base cordate. 3. C. Wiglitii, Hook, f. A lotty climber^ common in the eyergreeii Ghat forests of INorth Kanara and Belganm. Leaflets 4-5 in.^ sec. n. 5-7 pair, petals I in., capsules compressed, almost semicircular, shining, stx'ongly Fig. 98.—Connarus monocarpus, Linn. ^. B. Eastern species. Leaflets quite glabrous beneath, valves of the capsule pubescent or within. 4. C. paniculatus, Roxb. M. Ind. iii. 139. Yern. mc^^ii, Upper An evergreen climbing shrub (in Chittagong a large tree, Eoxb.), glabrous except inflorescence. Leaflets 3-~7, coriaceous, glossy above, 3-5 in. long. Panicle pubescent, spreading. Sepals pubescent, petals |-J in. long, linear, slightly narrowed towards the base, filaments hairy, ovary tomentose. Capsule at first softly tomentose, when mature glabrous and shining, IJ-IJ in. long. Assam, Khasi hills, Chittagong. Large rapids (Hatgyi) on the Sal ween (, May, 1859), Amherst (, April, 1880). Fl. March-June. Evergreen forests, Upper Burma, Hmangin at 2,500 ft. (Smales, Dec, 1901) To this I refer specimens collected hy Br. Henry in Yunnan. 5. C. gibbosus, "Wall.; Kurz F. Fl. i. 827. Pegu, Tenasserim and Andamans. Leaflets 4-6 in. long, petals ohlanceolate, glahrous, capsule compressed, rusty tomentose when young, glahrous when mature, obliquely striate, compressed, obovate, IJ in. long. 4 and 5 may possibly turn out to be the same species. 6. 0. nico- ijaricuB, King in Journ. As. Soc- Beng. 6Q (1898), 6. Nicobar islands. Scandent, Leaflets broa
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