'Chilocarpiis.'] xciT. APOCTNACEiE. (J. D. Hooker.) 627 



•very thickly coriaceous, brown and opaque above when diy, brighter brown beneath, 

 midrib stout ; petiole ^ in. Flowers unknown. Frtiit on a very stout woody pedicel 

 with remains of minute persistent bracts in spiral series, bright orange coloured ; 

 pericarp very thick, dehiscent, pulp coarsely .granular. Seeds very numerous, 

 irregularly broadly oblong, ends rounded, hilum excavated, testa smooth, albumen 

 ■solid horny. 



3. C. decipieus, JSook. f. ; glabrous, leaves elliptic-oblong or_ -ovate 

 ■obtusely acuminate, base acute, nerves very numerous slender nearly horizontal, 

 fruit linear-oblong cylindric rounded at both ends, pericarp woody. 



Malacca; Maingay (Kew Distrib. 1060 and 1043, C. airo-virldis). 



Leaves 3-3J by 1-1|, hardly shining above and greenish when dry, beneath pale 

 'Thrown minutely dotted ; nerves very slender but prominent on both surfaces ; petiole 

 J in. Cymes rather slender, dichotomously branched; flowers not seen. Fruit l^-2i 

 By ^-§ in., on a stout pedicel bearing numerous minute bracts in spirals. Seeds 

 large, "albumen homy, dull white; cotyledons blood-red, fleshy, convolute" ^Main- 

 jga/y)- — The foliage resembles C. atro-viridis, but there are no recurrent nerves between 

 the primaries. 



*** Pedicels hracteate at the hose only ; Jlowers long ; tube of corolla inflated 

 ■towards the hose, 



4. C. nXaing'ayi, Dyer in Herb. Kew. ; glabrous, leaves elliptic-oblong 

 ■obtuse base acute, nerves numerous slightly arched strong beneath, cymes long 

 "very stout, pedicels subverticillately branched. 



Malacca ; Maingay (Kew Distrib. 1046). 



A climber ; branches stout, smooth, shining, swollen at the nodes. Leaves 3-4 by 

 1-2 in., coriaceous, opaque, dull yellowish green when dry on both surfaces ; nerves 

 '20-30 pairs, with a recurrent one from the intramarginal between each pair ; petiole 

 \ in., very stout. Cymes elongate, erect; peduncles very stout, 1-3 in., bearing 

 •superposed pairs of very short branches, the crowded flowers of which give them a 

 ■somewhat whorled appearance ; flowers j in. long, sessile or stoutly pedicelled. Calyx- 

 lobes rounded, short. Corolla-tube very slender, with a ring of hairs below the 

 anthers ■within ; lobes inflexed and forming an ovoid bud much broader than the tube, 

 when expanded 4 in. long, ovate-lanceolate, narrowed into long points. Anthers 

 small, ovate, longer than the slender fllament. Ovary acute, " 1-celled with 4 parietal 

 placentas," Maingay. Fruit " spherical and obtusely conoid, coriaceous, fleshy, cap- 

 sular, orange-yellow. Seeds very many, immersed in angular bright yellow masses 

 (pulp), mixed -with delicate arachnoid flbres, subquadrate, curved on one surface, 

 -deeply channelled on the other ; testa cartilaginous, bright brown ; albumen horny ; 

 ■embryo axile; cotyledons semi-oval, flat, white " {Maingay). 



3. X.EVCONOTXS, Jack. 



Erect milky evergreen shrubs. Leaves opposite, nerves distant. Flowers in 

 peduncled axillary cymes, 4^merous. Calyx 4-lobed or -partite, eglandular or 

 minutely glandular ■within. Corolla salver-shaped, tube dilated in the middle, 

 throat naked ; lobes 4, short, overlapping to the left. Stamens 4, in the middle 

 ■of the tube, included, anthers linear, cells rounded at the base. IHsc 0. Ovary 

 .2-ceUed ; style short, top thickened, stigma 2-toothed ; ovules 2, laterally 

 affixed in each cell. Beri-y ovoid or globose. Seeds 1-3, imbedded in pulp, 

 ■ovoid-oblong, testa membranous, albumen 0; cotyledons thick, fleshy, inner 

 faces irregular, radicle short superior. — Distkib. Species 6, Malayan (not 

 Javan). 



* Calyx irpartite, segments long linear. 



1. Ii. eugpenifoliuS; A. DC. Frodr. viii. 331 ; shoots petioles and nerves 



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