Wortma.] DilleniacecB. 1 1 



late, glabrous above, scabrous-pubescent beneath, petioles 

 short, stout, deeply channelled ; fl. \ in. diam., in small, 

 axillary, stalked panicles much shorter than the leaves ; 

 branches few, silky ; stam. about 20. 



Var. jS. deniata, Wight in Thw. Enum 4. C. P. 339. 

 Petioles hairy, leaves coarsely serrate-dentate, more hairy 

 beneath, and with more prominent reticulate venation. 



Var. y. subglabra, Thw. Enum. 4. C. P. 2416. 

 Leaves nearly glabrous beneath. 



Lower Montane zone; rather common. Ambagamuwa; Adam's Peak. 

 Var. /3 Adam's Peak ; Hunasgiriya. Var y Hunasgiriya. Fl. Jan-April ; 

 yellow. 



Endemic. 



The varieties are scarcely worth separate names. 



3. S. angrustifolia, Hk.f.andTh.,Fl.Ind. 66 {i^ss)- [Plate II.] 

 Thw. Enum. 4. C. P. 2992. 

 Fl. Br. Ind. i. 34. 



An erect shrub, branches cylindrical, smooth, young buds 

 white, silky ; 1. 4-6 in., shortly stalked, lanceolate-oblong, 

 acuminate, serrate, glabrous except on midrib beneath ; fl. 

 ^ in. diam., arranged as in 2 ; sep. very silky externally ; 

 stam. about 27. 



Moist region, below 2000 ft. ; rare. Hiniduma and Kukul Korale, 

 abundant. 



Fl. December, April, June ; yellow. 

 Endemic. 



5. WORBIIA, Rottb. 



Trees ; petioles with an adherent stipular wing ; sep. 5> 

 persistent, much and unequally enlarged and loosely enclosing 

 the ripe fruit ; pet. 5, large ; stam. indef., anth. opening by 

 2 terminal pores ; carp. 4-5, each with several ovules in 

 2 rows ; fruit-carp, indehiscent, each 1-2-seeded ; seed with 

 a fleshy aril. — Species 9, 4 in Fl. B. Ind. 



W. triquetra, Rottb. in Nov. Act. Hafn. ii. 532 (1783). Diya- 

 para, S. [Plate III.] 



DiUenia dentata, Thunb. in Trans. Linn. Soc. i. 201. Dillettia aquatica^ 

 Moon Cat. 42. Hk. f. and Th. Fl. Ind. 67. Thw. Enum. 4. C. P. 1013. 



Fl. Br. Ind. i. 35. Trans. Linn. Soc. i. t. 20. 



A moderate-sized tree, twigs smooth, brown, marked with 

 large leaf-scars ; petioles long, channelled above, half-sur- 

 rounded at the base by a prominent, fleshy, horse-shoe-shaped 

 cushion, and at first provided with long, narrow, herbaceous 



