XXXVI. CHAILLETIACE2E. 
[Chailletia. 
418 
•3 in. long strigose. Flowers sub-globular less than 'i in. long, 
white. Sepals ovate blunt, silky outside, pubescent inside. Petals 
smaller elliptic shortly bifid blunt. Filaments very short; anthers 
ovate. Ovary silky. Fruit globose or transversely oblong tomen- 
tose dehiscing into 4 valves ‘4 in. long, '5 in. wide. Hab. Open 
country in the north. Lankawi islands (Curtis). Perlis, Chupeng 
(Ridley). Disirib. Tenasserim, Burma. Native name: Gunda 
Mahmot. 
(5) C. Hookeri King, l.c . 91. 
A climber nearly glabrous. Leaves coriaceous oblong obtuse 
to oblong-lanceolate, base slightly narrowed blunt, glabrous except 
on the midrib, finely reticulate and shining on both sides; nerves 
8 to 10 pairs, 4-5 to 6*5 in. long, 1*5 to 2 in. wide; petioles -5 to 
75 in. long, strigose. Cymes in pairs dichotomous tomentose 1 to 
2 in. across; peduncles *5 to 75 in. long. Flowers *1 in. long. 
Sepals oblong blunt silky-tomentose outside, glabrous inside. Petals 
glabrous shorter broader, deeply cut into 2 obovate over-lapping 
lobes. Stamens as long glabrous; anther-cells on the edge of 
connective. Hah. Very rare, forests. Perak (Scortechini). Penang 
(Porter, Wallich, 7443). 
(6) C. sordida Ridl. C. deflexifolia var. sordida Hook. fil. F.B.I. 
i. 57 1 - 
Climbing shrub. Leaves elliptic narrowed at the base shortly 
acuminate, glabrous and shining above, except the pubescent mid¬ 
rib and 4 to 5 pairs of slender nerves, 275 to 4-5 in. long, i*5 to 
2 in. wide; petioles -i in. long pubescent. Panicles in pairs axillary 
1 in. long or less, scurfy puberulous, often sub-globose and nearly 
sessile when young. Sepals elliptic obtuse hairy. Petals yellow. 
Fruit obovoid dehiscing into 3 lobes at the tip, yellow tomentose 
•6 in. long. Hab. South of the peninsula. Singapore (Wallich 
9016, Maingay). Bajau River. Johor, Kota Tinggi. 
This has been confused with the next, but differs in its leaves being 
always much smaller and narrowly elliptic. 
(7) C. deflexifolia Turez. Bull. Mosc. 1863 (1), 611; King, l.c. 
94 var. tomentosa. Dichapetalum malaccense, Engl. Jahrb. xxiii. 
143. 
Climber 30 to 70 ft. long. Branchlets, underside of leaves, and 
cymes all tomentose. Leaves thinly coriaceous elliptic-obovate 
retuse, above glabrous; nerves 5 to 7 pairs, 4*5 to 6'5 in. long, 
2*5 to 3*25 in. wide; petioles *3 to '4 in. long. Cymes often terminal 
dichotomous as much as 3 in. across; peduncles 1 to 1*25 in. long. 
Flowers ‘25 in. long white. Sepals oblong-lanceolate deflexed, 
tomentose outside, glabrous inside. Petals as long deeply cut into 
2 lanceolate lobes. Stamens as long. Ovary depressed-globular. 
Fruit round reniform silky pitted 1 in. broad, green. Hab. Forests. 
Malacca, Sungei Baru; Merlimau. Negri Sembilan, Tampin 
