94 Materials for a Flora of the Malayan Peninsula. 



2-cened, 2-seeded, (often from the abortion of one of the cells) ovoid, 

 1-celled and 1-seeded. 



South Andaman Island ; King's Collectors. 



The greatest breadth of the leaves in this species is above the middle, 

 and in this respect it differs from G. gelonoides. Tlie point of the leaves 

 is also shorter than in that species ; the flowers are less hairy, the cymes 

 less crowded, and they are pedunculate and not sessile as in G. 

 gelonoides. 



7, Chailletia. deflexifolia, Turcz. in Bull. Mosc. 1863, pt. 1, 611, 

 var. tomentosa. A climber, 10 to 30 feet long ; young branches densely 

 and minutely olivaceous-tomentose. Leaves thinly coriaceous, elliptic- 

 obovate, retuse ; upper surface minutely reticulate when dry, glabrous 

 when adult except the minutely tomentose midrib and nerves ; lower 

 surface softly and minutely pilose, the midrib tomentose as are the 5 to 

 7 pairs of curved, spreading, maiu nerves ; length 4"5 to 6"5 in,, 

 breadth 2'5 to 3'25 in., petiole "3 to "4 in. Gymes axillary, and often 

 terminal, pedunculate, tomentose, dichotomous, spreading, often 3 in. 

 in diam. ; the peduncles 1 to 1'25 in. long, stout. Flowers "25 in. in 

 diam. Sepals oblong-lanceolate, deflexed, sericeous-tomentose outside, 

 glabrous inside. Petals as long as the sepals, deeply divided into 2 

 lanceolate segments. Stamens as long as the petals, the anthers shortly 

 ovate. Ovary densely lanate-sei'iceous, depressed globular, the style 

 slender, stigma small. Drupes compressed, rotund-reniform, sericeous, 

 rugose, pitted, 1 in. broad ; the endocarp very hard, 2-celled, 2-seeded. 

 Hook. fil. Fl. Br, Ind. I, 671; Wall. Cat. 9016 (indeterminate). 



Malacca; Griffith, Maingay. Perak; King's Collector, Wray, 

 Scortechini. 



Order XXIX. OLACiNE.ffi. 



Trees or shrubs, rarely herbs, sometimes climbing. Leaves alter- 

 nate, rarely opposite, simple or lobed, penni- or palmi-nerved, exstipu- 

 late. Inflorescence cymose or racemose, rarely capitate, terminal, axil- 

 lary or exti-a-axillary, sessile or more or less peduncled. Flowers 

 regular, hermaphrodite, polygamo-dioecious or dioecious. Calyx usually 

 small, 4— 5-toothed, sometimes accrescent, free or adherent to the fruit, 

 lobes valvate or imbricate. Petals 3-6, valvate or imbricate, free, or 

 more or less coherent. Stamens 3- J 5, inserted with the petals, free or 

 adnate to them and either opposite to or alternate with them, all fertile, 

 or some (staminodes) anantherous, disunited or more or less monadel- 

 phous. Anthers erect, 2-celled, dehiscing longitudinally. Bisc hypo- 

 gynous or perigynous, cup-shaped, often absent. Ovary free, or half in- 

 ferior, I -celled or imperfectly 2-3-5-celled (from the dissepiments not 



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