36 ■ II. DiLLENiACEJE. (Hook. f. & Thoms.) [Wormia. 



lata, DC. Frodr. I 15. DiUenia dentata, ThunK in Tram. Linn. Soc. i. 201, 



t. 20. 



Moist warm parts of Cevlon, up to 2000 ft. 



A tree, bark black, young parts hoary. Leaves 6-8 by 4-5 in., tip obtuse or suD- 

 tmncate, base rounded; petiole 2-3 in. Flowers 2 in. diam., white, in subterminal 

 leaf-opposed secuud few-flowered racemes; pedicels 1 in., thickened upwards. Carpels 

 5, indehiscent, 1-2-seeded. " 



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4. W. pulchella, Jack, Mai. Misc. ex Hook. Comp. Bot. Mag. i. 221 ; 

 leaves obovate obtuse, nerves distant, petiole slightly margined. //./. (k T. 

 Fl. Ind. 6t*. 



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Eastern Peninsula: Malacca, On'ffith, — Distbib. Sumatra. ^ ^ ^ « 



A small tree; branches dark grey, glabrous. Leaves 4-5 by 2-3 in., quite entire, 

 coriaceous, tip obtuse, truncate or retuse, mucronate, base acute, nerves rather distant ; 

 petiole 1 in,, channelled, base slightly sheathing. Flowers 2 in. diam., on axillary leaf- 

 opposed ebracteate peduncles. Sepals broadly ovate, glabrous. Follicles 5, few-seeded. 

 Seeds few, aril red pulpy. 



6. DXIiXiSNIA, Linn. 



Trees. Leaves broad, with conspicuous parallel lateral nerves. Flowers 

 large, solitary or fascicled, yellow or white. Sepals 5, spreading. Petals 5, 

 broaa. Stamms nearly free; anthers linear, onrsting by small slits or 

 pores ; inner erect or recurved introrse, outer recurved extrorse, Carpds 

 5-20, cohering in the axis ; ovules indefinite. Fruit globose, formed of the 

 matured indehiscent carpels inclosed in the thickened calyx, Seeds naked 

 or immersed in pulp, exarillate,— Distrib. Tropical Asia; species 12. 



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Sect, I.^ Eadillenia. Leaves persistent. Flowers white, (always?) ap- 

 pearing with the leaves, solitary or racemed, terminal or leaf-opposed. 



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1. S. indlcay Linn,; leaves lanceolate serrate, flowers solitary very 

 large, sepals fleshy. Hamilton in Trans. Linn. Soc. xv. 99. D. speciosa and 

 D. elliptica. Thnnh. in Trans. Linn. Soc. i. 200 ; DC. Frodr, i. 76 ; ^r^//. 

 Cat. 943; W. & A. Frodr. 5; Wight Ic. 823; H.f. & T. Fl. Ind. 69. 



Tropical forests in the Western Peninsula, Behar and Ceylon, and the Himalaya, 

 from ^ipal to Assam, Eastern Peninsula from Silhet to Sincapore. — Distrib. Malay 

 Archipelago. 



A round headed tree, branchlets tomentose. Leaves 8-10 by 2-4 in., fascicled at 

 the ends of the branches, acute, veins close-set, glabrous above, pubescent especially on 

 the nerves beneath. Flowers 6 in. diam., subtenninaL SepaU orbicular, thick and 

 fleshy. Pttah white, obovaie. Inner stamens arching over the outer. Seeds com* 

 pressed, margins hairy. ' . 



2. Z>. ovata. Wall. Cat. 945 ; leaves ovate denticulate, flowers solitary, 

 sepals thick. H.f. d: T. Fl. Ind. 70. 



Eastern Peninsula ; Pinang, WalUchj &c. 



A tree, branches sottly tomentose. Leaves 8 by 5 in., acute or subacute, base 

 rOBnded and subobliaue, glabrous or pubescent on the nerves above, sofily pubescent 

 beneath; petiole 1-1 4 in., tomentose. Flowers on terminal or leaf-opposed peduncle* 

 2 in. long — Colour of flower unknown. g 



3. I>. meliosxnsefolia, //./, <t T. ; leaves obovale-oblong acuminate 

 serrate, flowers 1-2 terminal, sepals densely tomentose. 









Eastern Peninsula; Malacca, Griffith. ^^^ ^ 



A tree; bark grey, striated; branchlets denBeTy clothed with fulvous tomentunS 



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