Connarus
(from Konnaros, the name of an unknown tree, described at length by Athenaeus). SYN. Omphalobium. ORD. Connaraceae. A large genus of ornamental stove evergreen shrubs. Most of them are native of tropical Asia and America. Flower white, disposed in racemose panicles. Leaves alternate, leathery, impari-pinnate. A mixture of loam and peat will answer well for these plants. Cuttings of firm shoots, taken in April, will root, if planted in sand and placed in bottom heat, under a bell glass.
C. pubescens (downy). fl. white, sweet-scented, disposed in axillary and terminal panicles. l., leaflets five, oval, acute, smooth above, covered beneath with rather white pubescence. h. 5ft. French Guiana, 1822. SYN. Robergia frutescens.
Other species known to cultivation are: nitidus and paniculatus.