2610 
LEAFLETS or PHiLivring BOTANY (Vos. VH, Arr 114 
DILLENIACEAE 
y Y Dillenia catmon Elm. n. sp. 
A rather large and sturdy tree; stem 6 dm thick, 10 
to 15 m high, branched from below the middle or toward 
the base, irregularly round; limbs large, ascending, crook- 
ed, widely spreading, ultimately numerously rebranched; 
twigs suberect, quite rigid, usually curved and crooked, the 
apical green portion strigose and with elongated brown 
lenticels; wood quite hard and brittle, the thin sapwood 
white, otherwise nearly incarnatus, odorless and without 
taste; bark thick, smooth on the dull brown surface, scal- 
ing in thin irregular plates, latericius in the middle region, 
whitish next to the sapwood. Leaves alternate, horizontal, 
also rigid and chartaceous, shallowly folded upon the up- 
per surface, the short acute tips recurved, much paler green 
heneath, broadly obtuse or nearly rounded and entire at the 
base, otherwise coarsely crenately toothed, glabrous, drying 
reddish brown beneath and greenish gray above, elliptic, 
greatly varying in size, the larger lamina 18 cm long by 
one half as wide across the middle or a trifle below it, the 
smallest or reduced old ones merely 5 cm long, the ter- 
minal young leaf light yellowish green and with a similarly 
colored foliaceous petiole; midrib stout and ridged beneath, 
plane above except at the base, curing dark reddish brown; 
lateral nerves 11 to 14 pairs, strict and ascending, similar 
in color and prominence, cross bars with -reticulations minute 
yet quite visible from beneath, their tips terminating into 
the subeallous points; petiole 3 to 5 em long, when old gla- 
brous and rugulose along the upper minutely caniculate side, 
thickened at the base, in the early state their sides are pro- 
vided with 7.5 mm broad more or less yellowish hirsute 
wings which soon fall off. Inflorescence erect, terminal or 
just below the bud or young leaf, appearing opposite the 
uppermost regularly matured leaf, 1 to 1.5 dm long, 2 to 
3-flowered above the middle; peduncle green and whitish 
spotted, angularly compressed, curing reddish brown, ultimate- 
ly glabrous; pedicels thickened at the distal end, articula- 
