450 CHAILLETIACEE (Harv.) [ Chailletia. 
Orper XLII. CHAILLETIACEA, DC. 
(By W. H. Harvey.) 
(Chailletex, R. Br. Cong. p. 442. Chailletiacese, DC. Prod. 2. p. 57. 
Endl, Gen. No. ecxl. Lindl, Veg. Kingd. No. cexxiii.) 
Flowers (small) regular or irregular, perfect or polygamous. Calyx 
5-cleft or parted, coloured within, with imbricate sstivation. Petals 
(or barren stamens?) 5, inserted in the base of the calyx, and alternating 
with its divisions, equal or unequal, simple or bifid. Stamens 5, oppo- 
site the calyx segments, inserted with the petals, and combined with 
them at base ; anthers 2-celled, introrse. Ovary free, sessile, 2-3 -celled ; 
ovules in pairs, collateral, axile, pendulous. Styles 2-3, filiform, separate 
or connate. Fruit a capsule or drupe, 2 or 1 celled ; seed solitary, ex- 
albuminous: cotyledons fleshy. 
Trees or shrubs, natives of the tropics of Africa, Asia, and America. Leaves al- 
ternate, penninerved, entire, coriaceous, with small deciduous stipules. Flowers m 
axillary di-trichotomous, much branched and many flowered cymes or fascicles. Of 
this small Order but three genera, including 15-20 species are known: only one spe 
cies is South African. 
I. CHAILLETIA, DC. 
Calyx deeply 5-parted. Petals sub-equal, emarginate or bifid. Sta- 
mens §, alternating with the petals. Perigynous-glands 5, opposite the 
petals. Ovary 3-celled; styles 3, filiform, distinct, or connate at base. 
Drupe coriaceous, dry, abortively one-seeded. DO. Prod. 2. p. 57: Endl. 
Gen. No. 5758. 
Shrubs or trees, natives of the tropics of both hemispheres. Named in honour of 
M. Chaillet, a Swiss botanist. - ; 
1, C. cymosa (Hook. Ic. Pl. t. 591); twigs hairy; leaves narrow- 
oblong, obtuse, somewhat narrowed at base, glabrous, coriaceous, ne 
with veins; cymes pedunculate, panicled, shorter than the leaves; 
calyx lobes linear, obtuse, erect; petals costate, deeply bifid; stamens 
as long as the calyx-lobes; styles three, connate for half their length, 
albo-tomentose below. 
Has. Aapges River, Burke and Zeyher! Oct. (Herb. Hook., T.C.D.) : 
A very dwarf shrub or suffrntex, under a foot in height, sub-simple or slightly 
branched. Branches and twigs rough, villoso-pubescent, densely leafy towards the 
extremity. Leaves 3-33 inches long, 6-10 lines wide, erect, closely set, with prom 
nent ribs and veinlets. Peduncles 1-1} inches long, below the oblong panicle. Calyx: 
_ Segments nearly 4 lines long, } line wide, slightly imbricate in zstivation, villose- 
tomentose externally. Petals as long as the calyx-lobes, cloven to the middle, the 
lobes linear. Fruit unknown.—A remarkable plant, very different in habit ete 
ae * of the genus, but apparently not differing generically, unless the fruit afford 
