Dillenia. polyandria polygynia. 651 



by four broad. Petioles about an inch lonj^, channelled, 

 embracing half the circumference of the branchlets, leav- 

 ing a permanent mark after they l\ill. 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. 

 Style scarcely any. Stigmas linear, lanceolate, recurved. 

 Capsules about twenty, surrounding the large, conic re- 

 ceptacle, sub-reniform, soft, fleshy, pale green, one-celled, 

 evalvular, 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 a two-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 pcrisperm. 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 have an agreeably acid taste, and are mucii 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. 



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