XXXVI. CHAILLETIACE.®. 
Chailletia .] 
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connective orbicular; anther-cells on edge. Ovary ovoid woolly. 
Hob. Perak, Trong (Wray). 
(3) C. Laurocerasus Planch, in Hook. fil. F.B.I. i. 572; King, 
lx. Journ. As. Soc. Beng. lxiv. 93. 
A scandent glabrous shrub, 30 to 40 ft. long. Leaves coriaceous 
elliptic blunt acuminate base narrowed, shining dark green; nerves 
7 to 8 pairs, 3-5 to 4*5 in. long, 1-5 to 2'5 in. wide; petioles *i in. 
long. Cymes globose few-flowered ’3 in. through, pedunculate. 
Flowers -15 to *2 in. wide. Sepals hoary outside, glabrous inside, 
ovate or orbicular. Petals longer glabrous, cut half-way down 
Fig. 41.—Chailletia Laurocerasus. 
into 2 oblong blunt lobes; filaments nearly as long. Ovary silky. 
Fruit transversely oblong or globose 1*25 in. through hairy. Hab. 
Forests local. Perak, Goping (Kunstler). Penang Hill (Waflieh 
7513, Curtis). Common. Native name: Tahi Ulat. 
(4) C. Helferiana Kurz. Journ. As. Soc. Beng. xli. (2), 297; 
King, lx. 92. 
Scandent shrub 6 to 8 ft. long. Leaves thinly coriaceous elliptic 
abruptly acutely acuminate, base cuneate, glabrous, midribs 
strigose; nerves 7 or 8 pairs faint, 4 to 6 in. long, 1*25 to 2-25 in. 
wide; petioles *25 in. long strigose. Cymes ’5 in. across; pedicels 
Fl.M.P., 1. EE 
