572 xxxvin. CHAILLETIACE^. (J. D. Hooker.) [Chailktia. 



variety of it, the ms. name of lanuginosa, his specimen having softer puhescence on the 

 leaves than Griffith's ; but the nature of the clothing of the branchlets, leaves, and fruit 

 is far from being woolly; he further describes the styles as 2, short ami distinct, which 

 probably applies to male flowers, as in Griffith's plant it is slender and 3-fid at the 

 apex. 



6. C. Laurocerasus, Plmn-h. in II<rh. Hook. ; branches terete smooth 

 black and leaves perfectly glabrous, leaves oblong and elliptic-oblong very 

 shortly petioled obtusely acuminate, nerves very slender, cymes very small 

 few-flowered, fruit large hoary, transversely oblong or globose when one 

 carpel ripens. 



PENANG, in every part of the hill, Mttingay. (Sincapore? Lobb.} 

 A scandent shrub ; remarkable amongst the India species for being perfectly gla- 

 brous, even the young twigs and .nchlets black when dry, not pr 

 Leaves 3-5 by 1^-2 in., on simrt slender petioles, eoriaeeous, very smooth and bright 

 red-brown when dry. Oymet, female only seen, small, few-ilowered, shortly pedunclcd. 

 Flower* \ in. diain. Cal;/.r divided nearly to the b ise, lobes very rounded, nearly 

 equal, hoary externally. /' tnlx glabrous, about twice as long as the calyx, titnim-n* 

 equalling the petals ; anthers empty. Orart/ minute, pubeseeiit ; style long, slender, 

 3-fid at the tip. fruit fully formed 1J in. aero>s, epi'-arp hard, endocarp thick, bony, 

 tubercled on the surface, white inside. l.ohb's specimen is ticketed from tSincapore, 

 but is more probably from Penang. 



C. sp. ? Wall. Cat. 7443, from Penan.: -ihout flower or fruit, is probably an 



nndeacribed species of Ofczitfefta. It has terete branches, pnbescenl i narrow - 



u'lahrons li- i. long, with obtuse or siibaeute tips and rounded 



beautifully reticulated and shining on both surfaces; the cymes arc small and fulvous- 

 pubescent. 



ORDER XXXIX. OLACINEJE. (By Maxwell T. Masters, F.IJ.S. , 



Trees or shmbs rarely herbs, sometimes climbing. Leaves alternate, 

 rarely opposite, simple or lobed, penni- or pahninerved. exstipulate. Injl- 

 ri'S'-t'in'c cyiiinse ; cymes terminal, axillary, or extra axillary, sessile or more 

 or less peduncied, rarely capitate. Flower* regular, hermaphrodite or 

 unisexual, often dioecious. C"/'/.' 1 usually small, 4-5 -toothed, sometimes 

 accrescent, free, or adherent either to the ovary or to the fruit, lobes val- 

 vate or imbricate. 7V/,//x ;j~c,, valvate or imbricate, free, or more or less 

 coherent. Stamens 3-15, inserted with the petals, free or adnate to them 

 and either opposite to or alternate with them, all fertile, or some (stami- 

 nodes) anantherous, disunited or more or less monadelphous ; anthers 

 erect, 2-celled, sph'tting-^ongitudinally. Di*k liypogynous, cup-shaded, 

 perigynous or epigynous. Oi'fii-y free, or half-inferior, 1-celled, or im- 

 perfectly 2-3-5-celled (from the dissepiments not reaching the apex of the 

 cavity) ; style simple or 0, rarely divided, stigma entire or lobed ; ovules 

 1-5, pendulous from the apex of a central placenta, or from the side or apex 

 of the ovarian cavity, consisting usually of a naked nucleus ; funicle (or 

 placenta ?) often dilated into a thickened process, " obturator," above the 

 ovule. Fruit drupaceous, or dry indehiscent, 1-celled, 1-seeded, free, or 

 more or less adnate to the calyx-tube and disk. Seed pendulous, albumen 

 fleshy, entire or lobed rarely ; radicle superior, cotyledons leafy, flat or 

 folded, rarely fleshy. DISTKIB. Genera about 40, species about 190, widely 

 distributed through the Tropics of both hemispheres. 



In the following pages the arrangement of Bentham and Hooker is followed, though 

 in all probability some of the genera, when better known, will have to be transferred 



