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2. Chilocarpus, Blume. 



Sarmentose or scandent woody shrubs. Leaves coriaceous or char- 

 taceous, opposite, petiolate, penninerved, the main-nerves numerous, 

 nearly at right angles to the midrib, sometimes indistinct. Flowers 

 usually small, slender, in dense axillary cymes or terminal or axillary 

 trichotomous panicles ; pedicels enlarged in fruit. Calyx 5-partite, tlie 

 lobes short, glands none. Corolla hypocrateriform ; the tube cylindric, 

 slightly dilated at the insertion of the stamens, the throat without 

 scales ; lobes 5, short, broad, twisted, overlapping to the left, twisted 

 to the right. Stamens inserted at or below the middle of the tube, 

 included ; anthers lanceolate, acute, the cells rounded at the base, 

 inappendiculate. Dish none. Ovary entire, 1-celled, with 2 parietal 

 prominent multi-ovular placentas ; style short ; stigma conical or ovoid, 

 faintly bifid ; ovules 2- or many-seriate on each placenta. Frtiit a 

 fleshy berry, ultimately bivalved, dehiscent ; pericarp thick. Seeds 

 embedded in pulp with fibrous and corky arils, numerous, compressed 

 or thick, often grooved near the hilum ; either with thin testa and 

 horny albumen, or with thick granular testa and thin albumen, albumen 

 equable or ruminate ; cotyledons flat sub-foliaceous, broad or narrow ; 

 radicle elongate, terete. — Distrib. India, Burma, Malay Archipelago 

 and Peninsula, and tropical Australia ; species about 16 to 18. 



The nature of the corky processes which we call " arils " above is a little difficult 

 to understand. They are well shown in the excellent figure of the fruit of C. suaveolens, 

 Bl., in t. liii. in Blume Mus. Bot. Lugd.-Bat. I., but the author gives no explanation 

 of his drawings. We prefer to use the word aril, as it seems to us the most explana- 

 tory. When the fruits and seeds of all the species are known, it may be possible to 

 make two genera, or, at any rate, two subgenera, according to the testa and albumen. 



Flowers small, corolla-tube under '3 in. long (where known) ; 

 leaves medium-sized or small, nerves not very prominent : — 

 Flowers in terminal or axillary cymes as long as or longer 

 than the leaves : — 



Flower-pedicels without imbricate bracteoles, only bracts at 

 the bases of the pedicels ; secondary nerves of the leaves 

 recurrently branched : — 



Leaves 2-25 to 3 in. long, thinly coriaceous ; main nerves 

 many, easily visible when dry ; peduncles under 1 in. 

 long; seeds with thin testa and horny albumen .. 1. C. atro-viridis. 



Leaves 3 to 5 in. long, chartaceous ; main nerves many, 

 not easily seen when dry ; peduncles over lo in. long ; 

 seeds not known . . • . . . . 2. C. emhelioides. 



Flower-pedicels with many imbricate bracteoles ; seeds with 

 the testa thick and granular and the albumen thin ; secon- 

 dary nerves of the leaves not recurrently branched . . 3. C. deci'piens. 



