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Chailletia.] xxxvui. ciiatlletiace^. (J. D. Hooker.) 5?i 



flf/1 -^ .'^;'''cult, in the absence of flo^-ers, to distingulsli this by characters from C. 



LVm,-! f 'r f ^^^■''^ ''^'■^ ^''''^^'■' ^ ^°'^^^<^s J°"g' "'"'■e oblong, more shortly and sharply 

 uminate, of a browu colour when dry, with very faint slender nerves, and they are less 

 nan-owed at the base. The fruit, judging from Wallich's specimen, is smaller, though 

 °®^V noary and of the same shape, and the epicarp dehisces in the same way. 



anil*'" '°»S"lpetala, Turcz in Bull. Mosc. 1863, pt. i. 611 ; branches 

 du^iar pustular, youug densely tomentose leaves elliptic or elliptic-lan- 

 cewate acuminate silkily hairy beneath, especially on the nerves and 

 puoescent on the nerves above, old scabrid beneath, cymes densely 

 wmeiitose, male lax small-flowered, female short with fewer denser flowers 

 Mat have longer petals. ' ' . 



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Ten-asserim; atMergui, Griffith, Heifer. 



TOnn*^^f^f 1 ^ i^*">noecious climber: bark of branchlcts pale and denselj pustular, 

 benp^Hi ^"l^pus-pubescent. Leaves 3-44 in., dark-brown when dry, nerves strong 

 nate f P^^^**l? ^erj short. Maj.e fl. in effuse cjmes, about J in. diara. Sepals con- 

 broad r^ turbinate tube, obtuse, hoary, unequal. Petals little lonc;er than the sepals, 

 cren- 1 ^^ n*^ below the middle. Stamens equalling the petals. Disk-scales quadrate, 

 Co/y ^\\ ^^^^^^^^^'^V'^'*^^^'^]) minute, wooHy. Fkmat.e fl. twice as large as the male. 

 tnent \ ^^^^- Petals twice as long as the sepals, narrow. Stamou with long fila- 

 slpn/ ^ o o"^ pollen. Ovary globose, clothed with straight white hairs ; style long and 

 ^Qaer, 3-fid at the apex. Fruit wanting. 



j^J* *'• ^eflexifolia, Turcz. in BuU. Mosc. 1863, pt. i. 611, var. tomex- 

 ellint" S^^^^j'^^-'J terete smooth young fulvous-tomentose, leaves petioled 

 nerv ^'*^^ ^lliptic-oblong acute coriaceous shining above tomentose beneath, 

 flmx.^^ ^^?19^g minutely pubescent above, cymes peduncled spreading niany- 

 ^o\\ered hoary. * , „ . . 



a'/'^^^c*.^ Griffith, Maingay, ' 

 ieau^ 1^^ ^ cliuiber ; branches black, the ultimate clothed with fulvous pubescence, 

 fihortlr — ^^^~^^ in., much broader than in any of the preceding species, very 

 stout /Y^'^^'"^^^ "^ ^'^^'^ ^"^^^^j coriaceous and har(!, dark-brown when dry; petiole 

 ^vided" '^^^ naany, much branched, effuse, 2 in. diam. Male fl. -jV in. diam. Calyx 

 ^M^X^^^^ to the base; segments unequal, obtuse. Pe^ai? rather longer than the 

 mm" \^-^^ fl., calj'x as m the males. Petals half as longagafn^as the sepals. 

 3-fid at^] ^"^ ' anchors empty. Oz?ary clothed with matted wool; style Fery slender, 

 Javan 7^^' -^rwzY unripe, hoary with fulvous tomentura.^^I unite this with the 



Iftiiean!^ ^' ^fl^^ifolia with some doubts, the leaves being so much more tomentose 



Wwf'/ ^^^^^a; leaves 3-4 by 1^-2 In., minutely pilose or pubescent and purplish- 

 fiowerlp wr'^- Sincapore, Wallich (Cat. n. 9016), Maingay.—IYie specimens are 

 ®?8; Waliich's has unripe fruit quite like that of var. tomentosa. 



striL^' ,^riffithli, Hook /. / branchlets clothed with long spreading 

 ^erv K^ ^^''^' ^^''''^es oblong or oblong-lanceolate acuminate cordate at the 

 ckuf^^'.^^^^'y beneath, cymes short few-flowered, fruit oblong densely 

 ^ed with fulvous rigid hairs. 



A vif "^V Griffith, Maingay. , . . 



less lay! '''.'**'"ct species from any of the above. Branchlets slender, clothed more or 

 beneathis'^*^ Iiairs, ^\-^ in. long. Leaves subscssile, 4-7 hy 2-3 in., glabroas above, 

 SI other "^^ °'" ^^^^ clothed with long li*irs, that are sometimes confined to the nerves, 

 Ners 1 ^^^"^''od over the surface. Flowers, female only seen, larger than its ron- 

 Wlr ♦ "' ^^'^'^•. in small few-flowered cymes. Cahjx divided nearly to the base, 

 the peL^"»entose; Petals not exceeding the sepMs, pubescent. Stamens equallm 

 •tthe tin ^^'^ry densely clothed with rigid fulvous bristles ; stjfe verv slender 3-h 

 So^eraT, • • "'' U in- long, 2-celled.— Griffith describes this as a shrub with th 

 eell. iT^^h capitate, and hidden under the leaves, and with l-o_vuiedovana 

 * flna however 2 ovules, as in the other species. Mamgay had given this, or 



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