572 ixxviii. chailletiace^. (J. D. Hooker.) 



variety of it, the ms. name of lanuginosa, Ks specimen having softer pubescence on the 

 leaves than GrifiSth's; bat the nature of the clothing of the branchlets, leaves, and fruit 

 is far from being woolly, he further describes the styles as 2, short and distinct, which 

 probably applies to male flowers, as in Griffith's plant it is slender and 3-Bd at the 

 apex. 



6. C. Xaaurocerasus, Planch, in Herb. Hook. ; branches terete smooth 

 black and leaves perfectly glabrous, leaves oblong and eUiptic-oblong very 

 shortly petioled obtusely acuminate, nerves very slender, cymes very small 

 few-flowered, fruit large hoary^ transversely oblong or globose when one 

 carpel ripens. 

 Penaho, in every part of the hill, Maingay. (Sincapore? Lobb.) 

 A scaudent shrub; remarkable amongst the India species for being perfectly gla- 

 brous, even the young twigs and leaves ; 'branchlets black when dry, not pustular. 

 Leaves 3-5 by lJ-2 in., on short slender petioles, coriaceous, very smooth and bright 

 red-brown when dry. Oymes, female only seen, small, few-flowered, shortly pedlincled. 

 Mowers J in. diam. Calyx divided nearly to the base, lobes very rounded, nearly 

 equal, hoary externally. Petals glabrous, about twice as long as the calyx. Stamens 

 equalling the petals ; anthers empty. Ovary minute, pubescent ; style long, slender, 

 3-fid at the tip. Fruit fully formed 1 J in. across, epicarp hard, endocarp thicK, bony, 

 tubercled on the surface, white inside.- — Lobb 'a specimen is ticketed from Sincapore, 

 but is more probably from Penang. 



C. sp. ? WaU. Oat. 7443, from Penang, Porter, without flower or fruit, is probably an 

 undescribed species of Chailletia. It has terete branches, pubescent branchlets, narrow- 

 oblong glabrous leaves, 5-8 in. long, with obtuse or subacute tips and rounded bases, 

 beautifully reticulated and shining on both surfaces ; the cymes are small and fulvous- 

 pubescent. 



Oedek XXXIX. OLiACINi:.a:. (By MaxweU T. Masters, F.R.S.) 



Trees or shrubs rarely herbs, sometimes climbing. Leaves alternate, 

 rarely opposite, simple or lobed, penni- or palminerved, exstipulate. Inflo- 

 rescence cymose ; cymes terminal, axiUary, or extra axillary, sessile or more 

 or less peduncled, rarely capitate. Mowers regular, hermaphrodite or 

 unisexual, often dioecious. Calyx usually small, 4-5-toothed, sometimes 

 accrescent, free, or adherent either to the ovary or to the fruit, lobea val- 

 vate or imbricate. Petals 3-6, valvate or imbricate, free, or more or less 

 coherent. Stamens 3-15, inserted with the petals, free or adnate to them 

 and either opposite to or alternate with them, all fertile, or some (stami- 

 nodes) anantherous, disunited or more or less monadelphous ; anthers 

 erect, 2-celled, splitting longitudinally. Disk hypogynous, cup-shaped, 

 perigynous or epigynous. Owry free, or half-inferior, l-ceUed^ or im- 

 perfectly 2-3-5-ceUed (from the dissejjiments not reaching the apex of the 

 cavity) ; style simple or 0, rarely divided, stigma entire or lobed ; ovules 

 1-5, pendulous from the apex of a central placenta, or from the side or apex 

 of the ovarian cavity, consisting usually of a naked nucleus ; funicle (or 

 placenta?) often dilated into a thickened process, " obturator," above the 

 ovule. Fruii drupaceous, or dry indehiscent, 1-celled, 1-seeded, free, or 

 more or less adnate to the calyx-tube and disk. Seed paidulous, albumen 

 fleshy, entire or lobed rarely ; radicle superior, cotyledons leafy, flat or 

 folded, rarely fleshy.— DisTEffi. Genera about 40, species about 19Q, widely 

 distributed through the Tropics of both hemispheres. 



In the following pages the arrangement of Bentham and Hooker is followed, though 

 m all probability some of the genera, when better known, wiU have to be transfetted 



