650 POLYANDRiA POLYGYNiA. DilUnia. 



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. Sckreb. gen. n. 939. 

 Gen. Char. Calyx five-leaved. Corol five petalled. 

 Germ sxiperior, 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 a 

 perisperm. 



1. D. spcciosa. Thunh. in. Linn. 1. p. 100. Willd. 2. 

 1251. 



Leaves pctioled, oblong, acutely serrate. Flowers so- 

 litary. Capsules about twenty. 



Dillenia indica. Linn. sp. pi 745. 



Syalita. Rheed. Mai. 3. t. 38. 39. 



Beng. Chalta. 



Teling. Uva-chitta, the name of the tree, and Uva-kay, 

 the fruit. 



This when in flower is one of the most beautiful trees 

 I have ever seen ; it is a native of the vallies, far up 

 amongst the Circar 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, ol long, 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 



