Chailletia. 



XXXVI. CHAILLETIACE^. 



417 



Ovary ovoid woolly. 

 572 ; King, 



connective orbicular; anther-cells on edge. 

 Hab. Perak, Trong (Wray). 



(3) C. Laurocerasus Planch, in Hook. fil. F.B.I, i. 

 I.e. Journ. As. Soc. Beng. Ixiv. 93. 



A scandent glabrous shrub, 30 to 40 ft. long. Leaves coriaceous 

 elhptic blunt acuminate base narrowed, shining dark green ; nerves 

 7 to 8 pairs, 3'5 to 4*5 in. long, i"5 to 2*5 in. wide; petioles 'i in. 

 long. Cymes globose few-flowered 3 in. through, pedunculate. 

 Flowers '15 to -2 in. wide. Sepals hoary outside, glabrous inside, 

 ovate or orbicular. Petals longer glabrous, cut half-way down 



Fig. 41. — Chailletia Laurocerasus. 



into 2 oblong blunt lobes ; filaments nearly as long. Ovary silky. 

 Fruit transversely oblong or globose 1-25 in. through hairy. Hab. 

 Forests local. Perak, Goping (Kunstler). Penang Hill (WalHch 

 7513, Curtis). Common. Native name : Tahi Ulat. 



(4) C. Helferiana Kurz. Journ. As. Soc. Beng. xH. (2), 297; 

 King, I.e. 92. 



Scandent shrub 6 to 8 ft. long. Leaves thinly coriaceous elliptic 

 abruptly acutely acuminate, base cuneate, glabrous, midribs 

 strigose; nerves 7 or 8 pairs faint, 4 to 6 in. long, 1-25 to 2-25 in. 

 wide ; petioles -25 in. long strigose. Cymes -5 in. across ; pedicels 



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