xxxviii. chatli/etiacejE (oliveu). 339 



1. CHAILLETIA, DC. ; Bentli. et Hook. f. Gen. PI. i. 341. 



Flowers hermaphrodite, rarely unisexual. Calyx 5-partite ; lobes nearly 

 or quite equal, more or less imbricate. Petals 5, free, usually more or less 

 clawed, 2-fid or 2-partite, rarely very shortly united with the stamens into 

 a tube at the base. Stamens 5 ; anthers elliptical to linear, the connective 

 frequently thickened behind. Hypogynous glands 5, distinct or connate, 

 opposite to the petals. Ovary free or in a few African species partially or 

 "holly immersed, 3-2-celled ; style simple (in tropical African species) ; apex 

 shortly 3-2-fid. Fruit drupaceous, dry or rarely fleshy, 1-3-celled, 1-3- 

 seeded.— Small trees or shrubs, erect or scandent, glabrous or pubescent, 

 heaves alternate, entire, petiolate or subsessile. Stipules subulate or seta- 

 ceous, deciduous. Flowers small, usually white, in axillary pedunculate or 

 nearly sessile cymes or glomerules. 



A considerable tropical genus both of the Old and New World. The tropical African 

 'pecies appear to be distinct from any Asiatic or American species which I have seen. The 

 8 F«ies i characterized by an ovary more or less immersed may perhaps prove entitled to ge- 

 neric distinction, but their fruits are unknown. 



A very distinct species occurs south of the tropics, within the limits of the Cape Mora. 

 0va ry superior, 

 leaves glabrous or glabroscent beneath, 

 tranches shortly tomentose. Leaves coriaceous, oblanceolate- 

 oblong, obtuse or broadly acute. Cymes shortly peduncu- 

 late. Petals with long claw 1- C.flexuosa. 



branches glabrous, puberulous or thinly strigillose. 



Extremities slender, thinly strigillose. Leaves oval- or ob- 



lanceolate-oblong, acuminate. Cymes under 1 in., pe- 



dunculate. Petals scarcely clawed. (Fruit fleshy.) . . 2. C. cymulota. 



Puberulous. Leaves broadly- or obovate-elliptical, acute or 



obtuse; base entire. Cymes many-flowered, 1-3 iu., 



dichotomons. Petals with long claw 3. C.flonbunda. 



Puberulous or glabrous. Leaves broadly elliptical, obtuse 

 or broadly acute, shining ; base subcordate. Cymes 

 under 1 in., 3-5-fid, subscorpioid. Petals with long 

 claw . 4. C. subcordala. 



Glabrous or puberulous. Leaves oblong-oval or -elliptic, 

 obtusely acuminate ; base acute. Glomerules few-flowered, 

 on short peduncles, often racemose on axillary flowering 

 shoots. Petals shortly clawed 5 - C - toncana. 



Glabrous. Leaves oblong-elliptic, acuminate, base acute ; 

 2i~5 in. Cymes 1-1* in., lax, branched. Petals with 

 long claw . 6. C. oblonga. 



Glabrous. Leaves elliptic-oblong, acute ; base rounded or 

 cuneate ; 6-8 in. Cymes sessile. Claw about equalling 



the sinus 7- C. Thomtoni. 



*p Ves tomentose or pubescent beneath. 

 c ase of the leaf distinctly cordate. Leaves obovate-elliptical, 



broadly acute or obtuse, pilose or pubescent beneath. ..,.„• 



Cymes pedunculate. Calyx-lobes recurved »• G mossumbicensts. 



(Compare C. rufipilis, var.) 

 ^ of the leaf slightly or not at all cordate. 



branches rusty-hirsute. Leaves obovate-elliptic. Cymes 

 subsessile. Calyx-lobes erect. Petals slightly nar- 

 rowed . . . • 9- c - rufipu**. 

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