Chailletia.] xxxvi. chailletiace^. 



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(Goodenough) . Perak, Larut (Kunstler) ; Gunong Keledang. 

 Distrih. Java. Native names : Akar Pah Kudah ; Akar Tugor 

 Pontianak. 



(8) C. Griffithii Hook. fd. F.B.I, i. 571 ; King, I.e. 82. C. setosa 

 King, Journ. As. Soc. Beng. Ixv. 515. 



Slender shrub with bristly stems. Leaves membranous oblong- 

 lanceolate acuminate, base cordate, above glabrous, midrib bristly, 

 edges and nerves beneath bristly; nerves 9 to 11 pairs elevate 

 beneath, 4 to 7 in. long, i to 2 in. wide. Cymes '4 in. long compact 

 at first globose, bristly. Flowers campanulate white '25 in. across. 

 Sepals ovate densely silky outside, pubescent inside. Petals 

 glabrous obovate bifid as long as and broader than sepals. Stamens 

 as long. Ovary ovoid silky. Fruit pyriform, densely hairy, 1-5 in. 

 long, 75 in. wide. Hab. Forests, not rare. Malacca, Chabau 

 (Griffith). Negri Sembilan, Gunong Angsi. Selangor, Batu Caves; 

 Batang Berjuntai (Ridley). Perak, Goping (Kunstler); Ulu 

 Bubong (Kunstler). Native names : Akar Putih Angin ; Kerutot; 

 Akar Putih Kambing. 



By some mistake King gives this as a climber 15 to 20 ft. long. It is 

 quite a small erect shrub. The C. setosa King of Ulu Bubong seems to me 

 to be a form with stiff er and rather more hairy leaves. 



Order XXXVIl. OLACINE.^. 



Trees and shrubs, sometimes climbing. Leaves alternate rarely 

 opposite simple exstipulate. Inflorescence cymose or racemose 

 terminal or axillary. Flowers regular bi- or uni-sexual. Calyx 

 small 4- or 5-toothed free or adherent to fruit. Petals 3 to 6 val- 

 vate or imbricate. Stamens 3 to 15 inserted with the petals; 

 anthers 2-celled dehiscing longitudinally. Disc hypogynous, cup- 

 shaped or none. Ovary free, i- or imperfectly 2- to 5-celled; 

 style simple or o. Stigma i or rarely 2. Ovules i to 5 pendulous 

 from a minute free central placenta or from side or apex of the 

 ovarian cavity. Fruit drupaceous or dry indehiscent, i- rarely 

 2-celled and seeded. Seed pendulous. Albumen fleshy. Species 

 about 200, tropics of both hemispheres. 



I exclude the section Opiliece {Cansjera and Lepionurus) referred 

 to the neighbourhood of Santalacecs. The rest of the order really 

 consists of an assemblage of plants characterised mainly by the 

 pendulous ovule. It is usual now to keep the Icacinece as a separate 

 order. I have, to save space, kept all the sections under Olacinece 

 except CardiopteridecB, which is put under Gamopetalce near Con- 

 volvulacecB. Bracea, King is Sarcosperma {Sapolacece). (King, 

 Journ. As. Soc. Beng. Ixiv. 94.) 



