on the Hortus Malabaricus, Part III. 101 
nulle, nisi gemmarum squamas volueris. Flores odorati, 
magnitudine florum Mali, flavi, ante folia vere prodeuntes. 
Calyx quinquepartitus, laciniis patulis, crassis, ovalibus, concavis, 
obliquis, imbricatis, apice subciliatis. Petala quinque, ca- 
lyce duplo longiora, obovata, undulata, tenuia, caduca. 
Filamenta plura, linearia ; exteriora indefinita, brevissima, 
incurva; interiora decem, elongata, apice recurva; anthe- 
rarum loculi bini lineares, apicibus filamentorum longitu- 
dinaliter adnati. Germina quinque, conica. Styli totidem 
subulati, recurvi. Stigmata simplicia, acuta. 
Fructus magnitudine Cerasi majoris, globosus, basi umbilicatus, 
glaber, flavus, constans e calyce succulento, clauso, imbri- 
cato, capsulas tegente quinque conniventes, succulentas. 
Semina in singulis capsulis duo vel tria, angulata. 
Like all the other species of this genus the young plants have 
enormously large leaves, such as are well described by Rum- 
phius in treating of the Songium. The only other genus, at least 
among the Dicotyledones, that is equally remarkable in this 
respect, so far as I know, is the Artocarpus, in which the leaves 
of the young plants are not only of an enormous size, but of quite 
a different shape from those of the adult. 
2. Dillenia aurea. Enc. Meth. Sup. v. 145? 
Dhengr Hindice. 
Habitat in Mithilz sylvis ad Nepalæ limites. 
Arbor magna ramis crassis cicatricosis, ramulis nudis. Folia 
alterna, decidua, oblongo-ovata, basi sæpius obliqua, ner- 
vorum apicibus productis denticulata, acuta, nervis paral- 
lelis ultra medium simplicissimis costata, venis parallelis 
reticulata: juniora utrinque pilis mollibus brevibus pu- 
bescentia. Petiolus amplexicaulis, semiteres, margine acu- 
tissimo membranaceo auctus, non stipulaceus. 
Gemma 
