570 XXXVIII. CHAiLLETiACB^. (J. D. Hooker.) 



often thickened at the back. Bisk of 5 glands or scales, or a 5-glandular 

 or -lobed cup. Ovary free, pubescent or villous, 2-3-celled ; styles 1-2-3, 

 free or more. or less connate, stigmas simple or capitate ; ovules anatropous 

 in pairs from the top of eaci cell, pendulous. Drupe pubescent or hispid, 

 oblong transversely oblong or didymous, compressed; epicarp entire or 

 dehiscent; putamen indehiscent or not, 1-3-celled, cells 1-seeded. i^eed 

 pendulous, hilum broad, testa membranous, albumen ; embryo large, 

 cotyledons thick, radicle small superior. — A small chiefly tropical order, of 

 3 genera and about 40 species. 



1. chaxx.i.i:txa, DC. 



Flowers polygamo-moncecious. Sepals 5, unequal, united at the base or 

 above it, obtuse. Petals 5, 2-lobed, narrow, free. Stamens 5, sometimes 

 slightly adnate at the base to the petals. Disk of«5 quadrate scales placed 

 opposite the petals. Ovary 2-3-ceIled. — Disteib. Tropical Asia, Africa, and 

 especially America ; species about 30. 



1. C. g^elontoides, Hook./, in Gen. Plant, i. 341 ; branchlets minutely 

 pubescent, leaves glabrous elliptic or elliptic-lanceolate or -obovate 

 abruptly acuminate or caudate-acuminate narrowed into the very short 

 petiole, flowers in small cymes. Bedd. Fl. Sylv. Anal. Gen. 59, t. 9, f . i. 

 C. sumatrana, Miquel Fl. Ind. Bat. Suppl. 329. Moacurra gelonioides, 

 Eoacb. Fl. Ind. ii. 70 ; BaiU. Etud. Gen. Euph. 587 ; Mull. Arg. in DO. 

 Prodr. XV. pt. 2, 227 ; Thwaites Enum. 79 ; Dah. & Gibs. Bomb. Fl. 52. 

 Celastrus acuminatus, Watt. Gat. n. 4342. Wahlenbergia, Br. ex Walk 

 Cat. Index, p. 232. 



Eastebn Bensal ; at the foot of the Khasia Mts., and ia Silhet and Chittagong ; 

 Western Peninsdla, on the Ghats from the Concan southwards. Ceylon, ascending 

 to 3000 ft. — Disteib. Sumatra. 



A small subdioecious tree. Leaves 2-4 by |-2 in., rather thin, nerves reticulate, pale 

 ■when dry, the young pilose or silky beneath ; stipules pubescent, old quite glabrous be- 

 neath. Male fl. about ^ in. diam. Sepals subequal, obtuse, hoary. JPetats as long, 

 narrow obovat«, glabrous, a subquadrate scale is placed in front of each at the base. 

 Stamens inserted at the very base of the calyx, or rather shorter than the petals, con- 

 nective broad. Female fl. as in the male, but the anthers have no pollen. Ovary 

 broad, sessile, woolly ; styles 2, veiy short, stigma minute capitate. Fruit when per- 

 fect |-1 in. diam., transversely oblong or ohoordate, 2-celled, compressed and didymous, 

 hut often only one carpel is perfect, and then it is smaller, oblong and oblique, epicarp 

 thick, rather fleshy, dehiscing along the edges, and becoming partially reflected, ex- 

 posing the yellow mesocarp which surmounts the rough crustaceous endocarp. Seeds 

 oblong, testa thin ; embryo the shape of the seed, radicle short.-yKoxburgh erroneously 

 describes the split epicarp as a 2-valved capsule, and the coloured fleshy mesocarp as an 

 aril. The descriptions of Baillon and Miiller are evidently taken from imperfect speci- 

 mens, and probably of two different plants ; they both retain Moacurra, and refer it to 

 Muphorbiacece. BeiAome describes the endocarp as divisible into two valves, but I find 

 no trace of this in eastern specimens. Thwaites has a var. j3, with leaves more or less 

 tomentose beneath. 



2. C. Kelferiana, Kurz in Beng. As. Soc. Journ. x\i. 1872, pt. 2, 297 ; 

 branchlets terete, young hoary-pubescent, leaves eUiptic-oblong or -obovate 

 acuminate petioled young and old along the nerves silky pubescent beneath, 

 veins very indistinct, flowers in hoary branched racemes, fruit hoary. 

 Chaillet, (spec.) Brunoniana, Wall. Cat. 4038. 



Tenasbebim, at Tavoy, Gomez, Heifer. 



