570 XXXVIII. CHAiLLETiACE^. (J. D. Hooker.) ' -■'* 



often thickened at the back. Disk of 5 glands or scales, or a 5-glandular 

 or-lobedcup. Ovary free, pubescent or villous, 2-3-celled; styles 1-2-3, 

 free or more or less connate, stigmas simple or capitate ; ovules anatropons 

 in pairs from the top of each cell, pendulous. - Driqye pubescent or hispid, 

 oblong transversely oblong or didymous, compressed ; epicarp entire or 

 .dehiscent; putamen indehiscent or not, 1-3-celled, cells 1-seeded. oeed ^ 

 pendulous, liilum broad, testa membranous, albumen 0; embryo large, 

 cotyledons thick, radicle small euperior. — A small chiefly tropical order, of 



3 genera and about 40 species. 



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Flowers polygamo-moncecious. Sepals 5, unequal, united at the base .or 

 above it, obtuse. Petals 5, 24obed, narrow, free. Stamens 5, ^i^meimi^^ 

 slightly adnate at the base to the petals. Disk of 5 quadrate scales placed 

 opposite the petals. Ovary 2-3-celled.— Distrib. Tropical Asia, Africa, ana 

 especially America; species about 30. ^ 



1. C. grelonioides, Hookf. in Gen. Plant, i. 341 ; branchlets minutely 

 pubescent, leaves glabrous elliptic or elliptic-lanceolate or -^*^^^^l! 

 abruptly acurnihate or caudate-acuminate narrowed into the very snore 

 petiole, flowers in small cymes. Bedd, Fl. Sylv. Anal Gen. 59, t. 9,t.Av, 

 C. knmatvQ,nk,^AIiquel Fl. Ind. Bat. Suppl 329. Moacurra geloiuoide^. 



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x-roar. xv, pt. 2, 227 ; Tliwaites Mnum. 79 ; Ualz. * b^i'JS. nomu. ^ ^. — • 



Celastrus acuminatus, Wall. Cat. n. 4342. Wahlenbergia, Br. ex wm- 





Cat. Index, p. 232. 



V -Eastern Bengal'; at tW foot of '{te Khasia Mts., and in Silhet and Ch _ 

 Western Peninsula, on the Ghats from the Concan southwards. Ceylon, ascenaing 

 to 3000 ft.— Distrib. Sumatra. ' - ' • t ■ ' i. 



A small subdioecious tree. Leaves 2-4 by 3-2 in., rather thin, nerves reticulate, paJe 

 when dry, the young pilose or silky beneath ; stipules pubescent, old quite g\abrou» t«- , 

 neath. Male fl. about ^ in. diitm. Sepah subequal, obtuse, hoary. Petals &s long, 

 narrow obovate, glabrous, a subquadrate scale is placed in front of each at the i>as • 

 ktamens inserted at the very base of the calyx, or rather shorter than the petals, cou- 

 nective broad. Female fl. as in the male, but the anthers have no pollen. , VW^ ■ 

 broad, sessile, woolly ; styles 2, veiy short, stigma minute capitate. Fruit when pe ^ 

 feet 1-1 in. diam., transversely oblong or obcordate, 2-celled, compressed and di^^'™"" ' ' 

 but often only one carpel is perfect, and then it is smaller, oblong and oblique, epiw^ 

 thick, rather fleshy, dehiscing along the edges, and becoming partially reflectea « ^^ 



posmg the yellow mesocarp which surmounts the roudi crustaceous endocarp. ot 

 nKl.n. ,.„♦„ .i.:„ . ._,...._ .. , . ., ^ ^^^^, ^^jj»,^ short.-Roxburgh erroneously 



sule, and the coloured fleshymesocaT) as an 



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 aril. 



Ihe descriptions of Baillon and Muller are evidently taken from imperlect s^e ^^ ^ 

 s and probably of two difi'erent plants: they both retain Moacurra, and ^etey 

 >horhiacem, Beddomc describes the endocarp as divisible into two valves, out i n 



mens 

 Eaphorh 



no trace of this m eastern specimens. Thwait«8 has a var. (3, with leaves more or^ic 

 tomentose beneath. - - r--- .-, -r r ^ / / A7- > ' ?»N' 



2. C. Kelferlana, Kun in Beng^ As. Soc. Journ. xli. 1872, pt, ^fV 

 tranclilets terete, young hoar>--pubescent, leaVes elliptic-oblong or -o.POva^. 

 acuminate petioled young and old along the nerves silky pubescent t)ene^_^^ 

 I,f^« yery indistinct, flowers in hoary brancE'ed racemes, fruit lioaij 



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