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26. CHAiLLETiACEiE. [Ckailletiacea, 



from tlie top ; styles 1-2-3, free or more or less connate ; stigmas 

 simple or capitate. Drupe pubescent, 2-celled, compressed. Seeds 

 solitary ; albumen ; embryo large ; cotyledons thick ; radicle small, 

 superior. 



Chailletia gelonioides, Hook. f. in Gen. Plant. 1. 341 ; FI. Br. I. 1. 

 570 ; Bodd. Fl. Sylv. 69. Moacurra gelonioides^ Roxb. Dalz. & Gibs, 

 Boddingin gidda, K. 



Eastern Bengal at the foot of the Khasia Mts., Silhet and Chittagong, 

 Western Peninsula on the ghats from the Konkan southwards. Ceylon 

 ascending to .3000 feet. Abundant in the evergreen forests of N. Kdnara, 

 near the falls of Gairaoppa. Usually a small shrub. Fruit dehiscent ; 

 mesocarp bright red. Fl. Dec- June. Fr. Aug. -Dec, 



Oedeb 27. OLACINE^. 



Trees or shrubs, sometimes climbing. Leaves simple, usually alter- 

 nate, exstipulate. Inflorescence cymose. Flowers regular, herma- 

 phrodite or unisexual, usually, small. Calyx 4-5-toothed, sometimes 

 accrescent. Petals 4-6, free or more or less coherent. Stamens equal 

 to or twice as many as the petals, all fertile or some without anthers. 

 Disk cup-shaped, free or adnate to the ovary or to the calyx. Ovary 

 free or immersed in the disk, 2-3-celled ; ovules 1-5, pendulous from the 

 apex of a central placenta or from the side or apex of the ovary ; 

 funicle often dilated above the ovule. Fruit usually an indehiscent 

 drupe. Seed pendulous ; albumen fleshy or ; radicle superior ; coty- 

 ledons leafy, flat or folded, rarely fleshy. 



Stamens and petals unequal in number (anisomer- 

 oua). 



JFerbile stamens 10. Calyx not enlarged in 



fruit ... ... ... ... 1. XlMENiA. 



Fertile stamens 3-5. Calyx enlarged in fruit. 2, Oi>AX. 

 Stamens equal and opposite to petals (isomerous). 

 Calyx and corolla present (flowers dichlamy- 

 deous). Ovules 1-5, embryo minute. 

 Corolla dialypetalons. 

 Cirhose shrubs. Epicarp separating from 



fruit in reflexed valves ... ... 3. Eetthropalttm. 



A large tree, Epicarp not separating 



from fruit ... ... ... 4. Strombosia. 



Calyx (flowers monochlamydeous). 

 Climbing shrubs, sometimes spiny. 

 Corolla gamopetalous. Embryo with 2 



long cotyledons ... ... 5, CansjerA. 



Stamens equal to petals - and alternate with them 

 (isomerous). 



Flowers not foetid, petals usually glabrous. 

 Erect shrubs or trees. 



Anthers pendulous, not sagittate. 



Ovary centric, stigma discoid ... 6. GoMPHAltDRA. 

 Anthers basifixed, sagittate. Ovary 



oblique, stigma small ... 7. AfodytBS. 



Climbing shrubs. Anthers erect. Stigmas^ 

 sessile ... ... .8. Sarcostigma* 



Flo wera foetid. Petals hairy within ... 9. Mappia, 



