230 CHAILLETIACES. [ Chailletia. 
CHAILLETIACEM. 
Flowers hermaphrodite or unisexual. Sepals 5, united or free, 
imbricate, pomnenunee unequal. Petals 5, free and equal, or connate 
and unequal, 2-cleft or Q-lobed. Stamens 5, alternating with the 
stigma simple or capitate. Drupe fe or leathery, indehiscent or 
dehiscent, containing a 1-2-celled bony or crustaceous sometimes 2- 
ed stone. Seeds solitary, pendulous, with a broad hilum. Albu- 
men none. Embryo large, with a small superior radicle.—Little 
trees or shrubs, with simple alternate teaves Stipules u: 
petiolar. Flowers small, in axillary cymes or corymbs, the peduncle 
sometimes adnate to the petiole. 
CHAILLETIA, DC. 
ers regular or nearly so, sometimes polygamous or a 
at the Sy ae Petals 5, free, broadly clawed, 2-parted o 2-lobed : 1 
= inflexed apex. Stamens 5, equal. Hypogynovs elandé b, 4 
riaceous, dry, ; 
shrubs, with entire leaves. Stipules deciduous. Flowers small, 
age or corym 
and pact Neargins ‘bes eath more or less conspicuous. 
Cymes ciusted like and almost sessile ; leaves green, cuneately nar- Jus 4 
rowed in a very es petiole . Ch. gelonioides. 4 
Cras terres peduncled ; (?) leaves dark-brown in a dried state Ch. mucropetal@. — 
Nerves and net-veination beneath very faint and almost a 
Impressed. 
Cane an 2-3 lint lony long petgneles Meret hue in a dried attr 
shortly petioled : ” Ch. Helferiana. 
1. Ch. Helferiana, Kz.—An evergreen ati or tree, (?) fen 
younger shoots shortly yellowish or greyish pubescent ; leaves 
y oblong or oblong, on a Bas lin. long greyish pu 
pesiale ane or Fue at base, short] amine, entire, € 
a: 
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ante 
8 a revish pubescent small cyme on a $ to # in. long : 
sage arising from the axils of the leaves and about 2-4 sige 
than the A sepals and petals silky pubescent aes 
Ma main 
Ch. gelonioides, H.f. Ind. Fl. i. 570.—An evergreen stall 
tree, ‘the young shoots puberulous; leaves elliptically to eee 
