4i8 XXXVI. CHAiLLETiACE^. [Chailkita. 



•3 in. long strigosc. Flowers sub-globular less than 'i in. long, 

 white. Sepals ovate blunt, silky outside, pubescent inside. Petals 

 smaller elliptic shortly bifid blunt. Filaments very short ; anthers 

 ovate. Ovary silky. Fruit globose or transversely oblong tomen- 

 tose dehiscing into 4 valves "4 in. long, -5 in. wide. Hab. Open 

 country in the north. Lankawi islands (Curtis). PerHs, Chupeng 

 (Ridley). Disirih. Tenasserim, Burma. Native name: Gunda 

 Mahmot. 



(5) C. Hookeri King, I.e. 91. 



A climber nearly glabrous. Leaves coriaceous oblong obtuse 

 to oblong-lanceolate, base shghtly narrowed blunt, glabrous except 

 on the midrib, finely reticulate and shining on both sides; nerves 

 8 to 10 pairs, 4*5 to 6*5 in. long, 1-5 to 2 in. wide; petioles "5 to 

 •75 in. long, strigose. Cymes in pairs dichotomous tomentose i to 

 2 in. across; peduncles "5 to 75 in. long. Flowers "i in. long. 

 Sepals oblong blunt silky-tomentose outside, glabrous inside. Petals 

 glabrous shorter broader, deeply cut into 2 obovate over-lapping 

 lobes. Stamens as long glabrous ; anther-cells on the edge of 

 connective. i/a&. Very rare, forests. Perak (Scortechini). Penang 

 (Porter, Wallich, 7443). 



(6) C sovdiida. Ridl. Z. de^exiioWdiVar. sordiiddi Hook. fil. F.B.I. 



i- 571' 



Climbing shrub. Leaves elliptic narrowed at the base shortly 

 acuminate, glabrous and shining above, except the pubescent mid- 

 rib and 4 to 5 pairs of slender nerves, 2*75 to 4*5 in. long, i'5 to 

 2 in. wide ; petioles 'i in. long pubescent. Panicles in pairs axillary 



1 in. long or less, scurfy puberulous, often sub-globose and nearly 

 sessile when young. Sepals elliptic obtuse hairy. Petals yellow. 

 Fruit obovoid dehiscing into 3 lobes at the tip, yellow tomentose 

 •6 in. long. Hah. South of the peninsula. Singapore (Wallich 

 9016, Maingay). Bajau River. Johor, Kota Tinggi. 



This has been confused with the next, but differs in its leaves being 

 always much smaller and narrowly elliptic. 



(7) C. deflexifolia Turcz. Bull. Mosc. 1863 (i), 611; King, I.e. 

 94 var. tomentosa. Dichapetalum malaccense, Engl. Jahrb. xxiii. 



143- 



Climber 30 to 70 ft. long. Bran chiefs, underside of leaves, and 

 cymes all tomentose. Leaves thinly coriaceous elliptic-obovate 

 refuse, above glabrous ; nerves 5 to 7 pairs, 4'5 to 6'5 in. long, 

 2*5 to 3*25 in. wide ; petioles 3 to '4 in. long. Cymes often terminal 

 dichotomous as much as 3 in. across; peduncles i to 1*25 in. long. 

 Flowers '25 in. long white. Sepals oblong-lanceolate defiexed, 

 tomentose outside, glabrous inside. Petals as long deeply cut into 



2 lanceolate lobes. Stamens as long. Ovary depressed-globular. 

 Fruit round reniform silky pitted i in. broad, green. Hah. Forests. 

 Malacca, Sungei Baru; Merlimau. Negri Sembilan, Tampin 



