92 Materials for a Flora of the Malayan Peninsula. 



segments. Stamens about as long as the petals, glabrous ; anthers 

 adnate, blunt, broad, the cells on the edges of the connective. Ovary 

 ovoid, densely lanate-sericeous ; style elongate, thin. Bipe drupe 

 unknown. Wall. Cat. No. 7443. 



Penang : Porter. Perak : Scortechini. 



This is the species referred to by Sir Joseph Hooker (Fl. Br. Ind. 

 I, 572), as probably an undescribed species of Ghailletia. The species, 

 when Sir Joseph wrote, was known only by Porter's incomplete speci- 

 mens. A few specimens of what is evidently the same plant were 

 collected by the late Father Scortechini in Perak, and these have 

 enabled me to describe the flowers. The fruit, however, still remains 

 unknown. 



3. Ghailletia Griffithii, Hook. fil. Fl. Br. Ind. I, 571. A slender 

 climber ; young branches striate, dark-coloured when dry, clothed with 

 numerous long, spreading, stiff, fulvous hairs with minute soft, short, 

 white pubescence between. Leaves membranous, oblong-lanceolate, 

 acuminate, the base rounded or minutely cordate ; upper surface glab- 

 rous except the sparsely bristly midrib, the lower with numerous 

 bristles on the midrib and a few scattered elsewhere chiefly on the 

 nerves, the edges ciliate ; main nerves 9 to 11 pairs, ascending, rather 

 bold beneath ; length 4 to 7 in., breadth 1 to 2 in., petiole "1 in., 

 densely bristly. Cymes globular, axillary, sessile, densely bristly, '4 to 

 •5 in. in diam. Floivers campanulate, nearly "25 in. across at the mouth. 

 Sepals sub-erect, narrowly ovate, densely sericeous on the outer, and 

 slightly pubescent on the inner sux^face. Petals glabrous, not longer 

 than the sepals but broader, obovate, the apex shortly bifid, the lobes 

 sub-acute, concave. Stamens as long as the petals, the anthers short, 

 broadly ovate, the cells anterior. Ovary ovate, densely lanate-sericeous ; 

 style shorter than the stamens ; stigmas 3, small, truncate. Pipe fruit 

 {■fide Hooker) 15 in. long, 2-celled. G. lanuginosa, Maing. MSS. 



Perak; King's Collector, No. 6117. Malacca; Griffith, No. 2169 

 (Kew Distrib.), Maingay, No. 870. 



Griffith describes this as " a shrub." It is actually a climbing 

 shrub 15 to 20 feet long. The flowers are white. 



4. Chailletia Helferiana, Kurz in Journ. As. Soc. Bengal, XLT, 

 (1872), Pt. 2, 297. Scandent; young branches adpressed-yellowish 

 pubescent, terete. Leaves thinly coriaceous, elliptic or oblong-elliptic, 

 shortly and abruptly acuminate, the base cuneate, both surfaces reticu- 

 late (the lower rather obscurely so) and glabrous, the midrib strigose 

 beneath ; main nerves 7 or 8 pairs, spreading, faint; length 4 to 6 in., 

 breadth 1-25 to 225 in. ; petiole "25 in., strigose. Cymes solitary, axil- 

 lary, about -5 in. iu diam. ; their pedicels about 3 in. long, strigose. 



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