SYALITA Malabaris. Rhbeede Hort. Malab. 
See The name of Dillenia was given by Linn aus to this genus 
__ of plants, in honour of Joun James DILLeNnius, Profeffor of 
_. Botany at Oxford, and the celebrated author of the Hy 
~ ftoves of the curious near town, isa native of Malabar 
_. This fpecies is increafed without difficulty by cutting: 
ee : quickly produce flowering plan. < es 
ae ees 
DILLENIA Speciosa. SHEwy DILLenia. 
JH HBEHbnebidbbiiies 
_Clafs aS Order. = 
, connate, pulpa 
replete. et 
«Specs Sires ms, 
DILLENIA /pecio/a foliis oblongis rotundato-acutis denti- 
culatis, pedunculis unifloris, Thund. in Linn. 
Tranf. 1. Pp. 200. oS a 
DILLENIA indica. Linn. Sy/t. Vegetab. ed. 14. Murr. p. 507. 
om. tii. p. 39. 
#, 98. 99. 
luf- 
corum, Hort. Elihamenfis, 8c. ee 
Until the publication of the firt volume of the Linnean Trau- 
faétions, only one fpecies of Dillenia was generally known; in- 
that work Prof. THunsrre minutely defcribes five othe 
three of which are there figured; all thefe, and one more de- 
{cribed by Dr. Roxsurcu in his work on the Coromandel 
plants, are inferted by Prof. Martyn in his new and highl: 
improved edition of Mitier’s Difionary. Se res 
_ The prefent fpecies, which now lofes its name. 
in that of /peciofa, and which though not. enumera 
Hort. Kew. has many years been cultivated at Kew, an 
a in its native foil it becomes a vaft tree, here we rarely 
€ it more than two or three feet high; ‘its flowers are large 
and fhewy, but quickly deciduous, and remarkable for the un- 
Pleafantnefs of their fcent, which is like that of the Lycin 
japonicum, but not being readily exhaled does not infe the 
air of the ftove. Sas ae 
