DILLENIACEA. 11 
Order II. DILLENIACEZ. 
Dilleniacee, Benth. et Hook. Gen. Plant. i. p. 10. 
This order consists of about eighteen genera and 180 species of trees, shrubs, and a few 
herbaceous plants. They inhabit the tropics of both worlds, but are most numerous in 
Extratropical Australia. A few are found in Eastern Temperate Asia and North 
America. 
Tribe DELIMEZA. 
1. DAVILLA. 
Davilla, Vahl, DC. Syst. i. p. 404 (Hieronia, Vell. Fl. Flum. v. t. 116); Benth. et Hook. Gen. Plant. 
i, p. 12. 
About fourteen species of climbing or twining shrubs, natives of tropical America. 
1. Davilla kunthii, A. St.-Hil. Plant. Us. Bras. sub t. 22, p. 6. 
Daviila lucida, Presl, Reliq. Henk. u. r(aHA Seem. Bot. Voy. ‘ Herald, t. 13. 
Davilla ovata, Presl. 
Panama, Rio Grande railway-station (S. Hayes), Chagres (Fendler, 26), Veraguas 
(Seemann).—CoLomBIA to Brazit. Hb. Kew. 
2. Davilla rugosa, Poir. Enc. Sup. ii. p. 457, et in St.-Hil. Plant. Us. Bras. t. 22. 
Davilla brasiliana, DC. Deless. Ic. Sel. i. t. 71. 
Nicaraaua, Chontales (Seemann, 2); Panama, Chagres (Fendler, 26), Remedios (See- 
mann).—West Inpiss, and CoLtompra to Brazit. Hb. Kew. 
8. Davilla sagrezana, Rich. Fl. Cab. (Spanish ed.), i. p. 8. 
. Davilla multifiora, Seem., not of St.-Hil. 
Tetracera multiflora, DC. ; 
Nicaragua, Chontales (Tate, 283); Panama, San Lorenzo (Seemann, 1621).—Cusa, 
Peru, and Brazit. Hb. Kew. 
4, Davilla, sp. (1). 
GuATEMALA (Skinner). Hb. Kew. 
5. Davilla, sp. (2). 
GuaTEMALA (Friedrichsthal). Hb. Kew. | 
6. Davilla, sp. (3). 
Panama, Island of Taboga (Sinclair). Hb. Kew. 
OO 2. CURATELLA. 
Curatella, Linn. Gen. Plant. n. 679; Benth. et Hook. Gen. Plant. i. p. 12. 
A genus of two’species of small trees or shrubs peculiar to tropical America. 
1. Curatella americana, Linn. Sp. Pl. p. 248; Aublet, Pl. Guian. t. 232. 
Sours Mexico, Acapulco (Lay & Collie); Panama, ‘in meadows and stony places in 
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