322 BENGAL PLANTS. [ch 
168. Chailletia DC. a 
Trees or shrubs ; Jeaves alternate, entire ; stipules 2, deciduous. — 
Flowers small, polygamo-monecious, in corymbose cymes, Sepals 
5, unequal, obtuse, connate at least at the base. Petals 5, 
2-lobed, narrow, free. Disk of 5 quadrate antipetalous scales. 
Stamens 5, sometimes slightly adnate at the base to the petals. 
membranous ; albumen 0; embryo with thick cotyledons. 
20. CHAILLETIA GELONIoIDES Hook. f.; F. B. L i 9 
Moacurra gelonioides F. 1. ii. 70 
Chittagong. 
A small tree. Beng. Moacurra. 
Order XXXVI. OLACINEE. . 
Trees or shrubs, rarely herbs, sometimes climbing. — 
alternate, rarely opposite, simple or lobed, penni- or palmineny” 
stipules 0. Flowers regular, hermaphrodite, or 1-sexual os, 
dicecious, cymose. Disk hypogynous, or cup Pr 
with the petals, free or adnate to them and either opposite 
als ’ pas 
connate, valvate or imbricate. Stamens 3-15; filaments si 
alternate with them, all fertile or some without an 1» 
disk. Seed pendulous; albumen fleshy, entire oF Jobers 
embryo straight, cotyledons leafy, rarely fleshy. 
*Flowers 2-sexual; ovules 1 to each cell :— [p. 323] 
Ovary somewhat 3-celled below, 1-celled above ; ovules 3; Pe 
