570 xxxvin. CHAILLETIACE.E. (J. D. Hooker.) 



often thickened at the back. Disk of 5 glands or scales, or a 5-glandular 

 or -lobed cup. Ovary free, pubescent or villous, 2-3-celled ; styles 1-2-3, 

 free or more or less connate, stigmas simple or capitate ; ovules aiiatropous 

 in pairs from the top of eacn cell, pendulous. />>/// pubescent or hispid, 

 oblong transversely oblong or didymous, compressed ; epicarp entire or 

 dehiscent; putamen indehiscent or not, 1-3-celled, cells 1 -seeded. Seed 

 pendulous, bikini broad, testa membranous, albumen ; embryo large, 

 cotyledons thick, radicle small superior. A small chiefly tropical order, of 

 3 genera and about 40 species. 



1. CHAILLETIA, DC. 



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

 above it, obtuse. Petals 5, 2-lobed, narrow, free. tit<nnrns 5, sometimes 

 slightly adnate at the base to the petals. l)i*k of "> quadrate scales placed 

 opposite the petals. Ovary 2-3-celled. DISTRIB. Tropical Asia, Africa, and 

 especially America ; species about 30. 



1. C. g-elonioides, Uo<>l\f. in C>n. Flnnt. i. 341 ; branchlets minutely 

 pubescent, leaves glabrous elliptic or elliptic-lanceolate or -obovate 

 abruptly acuminate or caudate-acuminate narrowed into the very short 

 petiole, flowers in small cymes. Jjl<l. /'/. /v//c. Amil. (J<-n. 59, t. !, t. 1. 



C 1 . siimatraiia, J//y//r/ /'/. ///</. lint. ,s'///y/. \\-l\). .Moacurra geloni 

 Roxb. Fl J,i<L ii. To; /A////. Khnl. (,'<. l^if.h. 587; J/////. frg. in 1>C. 

 Prodr. xv. pt. 2, 227; Thwnl*-* J-:,nun. 7'.); l><il.. <(' (JH#. Jtomb. F! . r>->. 

 Celastrus acuminatus, Wall. Cat. n. 4342. Wahlenbergia, Br. ex Wall. 

 Cat. Index, p. -2:-\ 



JEASTKIIN I'.I:M:.M.; at the foot of the Khasia Mts., and in Silhet and Chittagong ; 

 WESTERN PENINSULA, on the (Shuts from tin' Concan southwards. CEIXOH, ascending 

 to 3000 ft. PISTKIH. Sumatra. 



A small subdicccious tree. Leaves 2-4 by f-2 in., rather thin, nerves reticulate, pale 

 when dry, the young pilose or silky l^ncath ; stipules pubescent, old quite g-ljibnuis be- 

 neath. MALE fl. about ^ in. diam. Xr/,^//x subequal, obtuse, hoary. Petals us long, 

 narrow obovate, glabrous, a rabqn&drote scale is plae<ul in front of each at the base. 

 Stamens inserted at the very base of the calyx, or rather shorter than the petal 

 nective broad. FKMAI.K 11.' as in the male, but the anthers have no pollen. Ovary 

 broad, sessile, woolly ; styl-.-s '2, very short, stigma minute capitate. Fruit when per- 

 fect |-1 in. diam., transversely oblong or obcordate, 2-cclled, compressed and didymous, 

 but often only one carpel is perfect, and then it is smaller, oblong and oblique, epiavrp 

 thick, rather fleshy, dehiscing along the edges, and becoming partially reflected, ex- 

 posing the yellow mesocarp which surmounts the rough crustaceous endocarp. tieed* 

 oblong, testa thin ; embryo the shape of (he seed, radicle short. Roxburgh erroneously 

 describes the split epicarp as a 2-valwd capsule, and the coloured fleshy mesocarp as an 

 aril. The descriptions of Baillon and Miiller are evidently taken from imperfect speci- 

 mens, and probably of two different plants; they both retain Moacurra, and refer it to 

 JZuphorbiacece. Beddome describes the endocarp as divisible into two valves, but I find 

 no trace of this in eastern specimens. Thwaites has a var. |3, with leaves more or less 

 tomentose beneath. 



2. C. Helferiana, Kurz in Seng. As. Soc. Journ. xli. 1872, pt. 2, 297 ; 

 branchlets terete, young hoary-pubescent, leaves elliptic-oblong or -obovate 

 acuminate petioled young and old along the nerves silky pubescent beneath, 

 veins very indistinct, flowers in hoary branched racemes, fruit hoary. 

 Chaillet. (spec.) Brunoniana, Wall Cat. 4038. 



TENASSERIM, at Tavoy, Gomez, Heifer. 



