Dillenia. POLYANDRIA POLYGYNIA. } 651 
by four broad. Pefioles about an inch long, channelled, 
embracing half the circumference of the branchlets, leav- 
ing a permanent mark after they fall. Peduncles generally 
one amongst the leaves that surround the extremity of 
each branchlet undivided, clavate, round, smooth, one- 
flowered. Flowers looking down the earth finally, de- 
lightfully fragrant, very large, about nine inches in dia- 
meter. Calyx five-leaved, roundish, concave, thick and 
fleshy, enlarging with the capsule, which it permanently 
encloses. Petals five, oblong, waved, spreading, white. 
Filaments short, very. numerous. Anthers numerous, 
linear, the inner series longer and larger, bending out un- 
der the stigmas and forming a large yellow globe in the 
centre, which is elegantly crowned with the white lance- 
olate, spreading stigma opening by two pores at the top. 
Siyle scarcely any. Stigmas linear, lanceolate, recurved. 
Capsules about twenty, surrounding the large, conic re- 
ceptacle, sub-reniform, soft, fleshy, pale green, one-celled, 
eyalvular, containing a pellucid glutinous liquid which 
surrounds the seeds, Germs, about twenty, surround- 
ing a thick, firm, conic receptacle : singly linear, one-cell- 
ed, containing numerous ovula in several rows attached 
to atwo-lobed receptacle in the inner angle of each cell. 
Seeds numerous, reniform or obliquely oval, attached as 
in the germ, very hairy. Integuments two, the exterior 
one rather thick and hard, the inner one membranaceous, 
and adhering to the perisperm. Perisperm conform to 
the seed. Embryo small, lodged immediately within the 
umbilicus. Cotyledons two, small. Radicle oblong, cen- 
_ tripetal. 
. The fleshy leaflets of the calyx when the fruit is full 
grown haye an agreeably acid taste, and are much used 
‘by the natives where the trees grow, in their curries. 
‘They make a. tolerably pleasant jelly. The wood is 
both. hard and tough ; and used to. make gun-stocks, 
Dadaz : 
& a ey pert fim? 32 pores | 
