650 POLYANDRIA POLYGYNIA. Dillenia. 
boiled. The leaves are used to eat off instead of plates. 
These holy and beautiful plants are often met with in the 
religious ceremonies of the Hindoos under their Sanscrit 
name Padma. 
DILLENIA. Schreb. gen. n. 939. 
~ GEN. Cuar. Calyx five-leaved. Corol five-petalled. 
Germ superior, few or many, one-celled, many-seeded ; 
attachment interior. Capsules conjoined round a coni- 
cal receptacle. Seeds few or many immersed in a gela- 
tinous pulp. Embryo centripetal, and furnished With 
perisperm. 
1. D. speciosa. Thunb. in. Linn. 1. p. 100, Willd. 2. 
1251. : 
Leaves petioled, oblong, acutely serrate. Flowers so- 
litary. Capsules about twenty. 
Dillenia indica. Linn. sp. pl. 745. 
Syalita. Rheed. Mal. 3. t. 38. 39. 
Beng. Chalta. 
 Teling. Uva-chitta, the name of the tree, and phd 1 
the fruit. ai 
* This when in flower i is one of the most beautiful trees 
I have ever seen; it is a native of the vallies, far uP 
amongst the Ghoar mountains ; is also found cultivated 
in some gardens on account of its elegant appearance. 
It flowers during the hot season, and the beginning of the 
rains, and the seed ripens in February. Trunk very - 
straight but of no great height. Branches numerous, 
spreading, then ascending so as to form a most regular ’ 
round, dense, shady head, particularly while the tree is 
young. Leaves about the extremities of the branchlets ap- 
proximated, short-petioled, oblong, most regularly sharp- 
serrate, very firm, with many large, elevated, parallel 
veins, corresponding in number with, and ending in the 
points of the serratures, smooth, about nine inches long 
