XXXVII. CHAILLETIACB^. 219 



Seeds pendulous, hilum broad ; testa membranous ; albumen ; embryo 

 large ; cotyledons thick ; radicle small, superior. — Distrib. Tropics 

 of the Old and New World ; genera 3 ; species about 40. 



1. CHAILLETIA, DC. 



Flowers polygamo-moncecious. Sepals 5, unequal, united at the base 

 or above it, obtuse. Petals 5, 2-fid. Stamens 5. sometimes slightly 

 adnate at the base to the petals. Disk of 5 quadrate scales placed 

 opposite the petals. Ovary 2-3-celled. — Disteib. Tropical Asia, Africa 

 and especially America ; species about 30. 



1. Chailletia sumatrana, 3Hq. Fl. Ind. Bat. Suppl. (1860) p. 32S. 

 A bush or small tree. Leaves 2-4 by 1-1| in., elliptic or oblong- 

 elliptic, acuminate, entire, glabrous, base acute ; petioles j^-g i"- long ; 

 stipules pubescent. Flowers small, in axillary or extra-axillary clusters. 

 Sepals J^ in. long, elliptic-oblong, obtuse, densely pubescent. Petals as 

 long as the sepals or a little longer, linear-oblong, deeply notched at the 

 apex. Connective of anthers broad. Ovary (in the female flowers 

 only) downy ; styles 2, recurved. Fruit transversely oblong or ob- 

 cordate, didymous, compressed, covered with soft greyish down ; epicarp 

 coriaceous, 2-valved, dehiscing along the edge ; stone thin, hard, rugose, 

 covered by a soft scarlet mesocarp. Trim. Fl. Ceyl. v. 1, p. 254. 

 Chailletia r/elonioides, Bedd. For. Man. in Flor. Sylvat. (1871) p. lix, 

 t. y, fig. 1 : Fl. B. I. V. 1 (1875) p. 570; Talb. Trees, Bomb. p. 48; 

 Woodr. in Journ. Bomb. Nat. v. 11 (1897) p. 269 ; Watt, Diet. Econ. 

 Prod. V. 2, p. 263. Moacurra gelonioides, lloxb. Fl. Ind. v. 2, p. 69 ; 

 Dalz. & Gibs. p. 52. — Flowers : Apr .-June. 



Konkan: Stocks]; edge of the Ghats in lat. 16°, DalzeU\ S. M. Country: 

 Ramghat, Ritchie, l(i55!, plentiful, JJalzell cf' Gibson. Kanara: very common in 

 N. Kanara near the Falls of Gairsoppa, Talbot. — Distrib. India widely; Ceylon, 

 Sumatra. 



Order XXXYIII. OLACACEiE. 



Trees or shrubs, erect, scandent or twining. Leaves alternate (rarely 

 opposite), simple or lobed, exstipulate. Inflorescence cymose or 

 racemose (rarely capitate), terminal, axillary or extra-axillary ; flo^'ers 

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

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

 valvate or imbricate. Petals 3-6, vahate or imbricate, free or more or 

 less coherent. Stamens 3-15, inserted with the petals and more or less 

 adnate to them, all antheriferous or rarely some without anthers ; 

 filaments free or rarely monadelphous ; anthers erect, 2-celled, dehiscing 

 longitudinally. Disk hypogynous or perigynous, cup-shaped or 0. 

 Ovary free or half-inferior, 1 -celled or imperfectly 2-3-5-celled (from 

 the dissepiments not reaching the apex of the cavity) ; ovules 1-5, 

 pendulous from the apex of a minute free central placenta, or from the 

 side or apex of the ovarian cavity, the funicle (or ? placenta) often 

 dilated into a thickened process above the ovule ; style simple or ; 

 stigmas 1 (rarely 2), entire or lobed. Fruit drupaceous or dry, in- 

 deniscent, 1- (rarely 2-) celled, 1- (rarely 2-) seeded, free or more or 



