Chloroxyton.) CHAILLETIACE&. 321 
167. Chloroxylon DC. 
Medium trees; leaves even-pinnate; leaflets obtuse, oblique, 
entire. Flowers small, in axillary and terminal pubescent panicles. 
Calyx deeply 5-lobed. Petals 5, spreading, clawed, imbricate. 
_ Stamens 10, free, inserted between the lobes of the thick 10-lobed 
pubescent disk ; filaments subulate, alternately shorter and longer ; 
_ anthers versatile. Ovary pubescent, sunk in the disk, 3-lobed 
and 3-locular; style short slender glabrous, stigma capitate ; 
ovules about 8, 2-seriate in each cell. Fruit a leathery, 3-celled, 
loculicidally 3-valved capsule Seeds compressed with angular 
margins, winged above; albumen 0; embryo with thick 
cotyledons. 
319. CHLoRoxyton Swrerenta DC. ; F. B.1.i. 569; E. D. Cc. 1081. 
Swietenia Chloroxylon F, I. ii. 400. 
ota Na : 
A medium to large tree. Vernac. Behru, girya; Kol. 
Sengel sali. Indian Satin- Wood. 
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Order XXXV. CHAILLETIACEZ. 
Trees or shrubs. Leaves alternate, entire, simple; stipules 
2, deciduous. Flowers regular or irregular, 1-sexual or r polygamous, 
tarely hermaphrodite, in corymbose cymes; peduncles sometimes 
adnate to petiole. Disk of 5 glands or scales, or cupular with 5 
glands or lobes. Sepals 5, free or connate, sometimes unequal, 
imbricate. Petals 5, free, subperigynous, equal or unequal, notched 
or 2-fid, blade often with an inflexed plate adnate to its face, 
bey open in bud. Stamens 5, subperigynous, all or only some 
te to 
*mbryo large with thick cotyledons. 
