Tas. 5016. 
DIDLEENEA sancinen, 
Showy Dillenia. 
Nat. Ord. DrnteENIACEm.—PoOLYANDRIA POLYGYNIA. 
Gen. Char. Calyx pentaphyllus, foliolis subrotundis persistentibus fructifer 
auctus. Corolle petala 5, hypogyna, persistentia. Stamina indefinita, hypogyna, 
multiseriata, eequilonga, antheris bilocularibus, elongato-linearibus, adnatis, juxta 
longitudinem dehiscentibus. Ovaria 10-20, unilocularia, axi coalita, ovulis ad 
suturam ventralem biseriatis. S¢y/li radiato-divergentes, intus juxta totam longi- 
tudinem stigmatosi. Bacca plurilocularis, stylis radiantibus coronata, poly- 
sperma. Semina arillo pulposo induta.—Arbores Asie tropice, excelse ; foliis 
alternis, petiolatis, ovalibus v. oblongis, penninerviis, argute dentatis ; petiolis basi 
dilatata semiamplexicaulibus ; stipulis nullis ; pedunculis e gemma squamosa erum- 
ees solitariis, uni-multifioris ; floribus flavis v. albis; fructu eduli, acidulo. 
DILLENIA* speciosa ; foliis petiolatis oblongis vel lanceolatis acutis argute serra- 
tis, floribus coztaneis solitariis maximis, carpellis sub-20 polyspermis. 
DILLENIA speciosa, Thunb. in Trans. of Linn. Soc. v. lp. 200. Sm. Exot. Bot. 
v. 1. p. 3. f. 2, 3. Roxb. Fl. Ind. v. 2. p. 650. De Cand. Syst. Veget. v. 
1. p. 435; Prodr.v.1. p. 76. Wall. Cat. n. 943 (excl. C). Wight et 
Arn, Prodr. v. 1. p. 5. Wight, Ic. t. 823. Hook. et Thoms. Fl. Ind. p. 69. 
DILLEN1A elliptica, Thunb. in Trans. Linn. Soc. v. 1. p. 200. De Cand. Prodr. 
o. Lip., JO. 
Diutenta Indica. Linn. Sp. Pl. p. 745. 
Syalita. Rheede, Hort. Malab. v. 3. p. 39. t. 38 et 39. 
This is certainly among the handsomest of Indian trees, 
whether we consider the beauty of the foliage or the size and 
structure of the flowers, which latter remind one of the finest of 
the Magnolia kind. It was indeed introduced into our stoves in 
England at the very commencement of the present century, when 
Lady Amelia Hume received a healthy plant from Dr. Roxburgh, 
* “ Dillenia, in Botany, a magnificent East Indian genus of plants, named by 
Linnzeus in honour of John James Dillenius, the first Sherardian Professor at 
Oxford, because, as he himself says in his ‘ Critica Botanica,’ p. 80, it is of all 
plants the most distinguished for the beauty of its flower and fruit, like Dillenins 
among Botanists.” —Sir J. E. Smith. 
~ NOVEMBER Ist, 1857. 
