Naravelia.] i. ranunculace^. 3 



Petals linear clubbed, green. Stamens numerous yellow. Pistils 

 hairy. Hab. Hedges in rice-fields. Perils at Kanga (Ridley). 



Order II. DILLENIACEvE. 



Trees, shrubs or climbers, rarely herbs. Leaves alternate simple, 

 toothed or entire exstipulate. Flowers in panicles or racemes, yellow 

 or white, often large and showy. Sepals 5, imbricate persistent. 

 Petals 5, rarely 3 or 4, deciduous. Stamens many, hypogynous, 

 multiseriate, anthers introrse. Carpels i to 5 free, or cohering. 

 Styles distinct, ovules solitary or many attached to the ventral 

 suture. Fruit of coriaceous dehiscent or indehiscent follicles. 

 Seeds i to many, usually arillate, albuminous. Tropics of both 

 hemispheres. {King, Journ. As. Soc. Beng. Iviii. (2), 4.) 



Tribe i. Delime^. Woody climbers; filanaents dilated 



upwards. 

 Carpel i . . . . . . . . i. Delima 



Carpels 2 to 5 . . . . . . .2. Tetracera 



Tribe 2. Dillenie.^:. Herb, shrubs or trees; filaments 



not dilated. 

 Herb, stemless ; leaves radical . . . • 3- Acrotrema 



Trees or shrubs ; follicles dehiscing expanding ; seeds 



conspicuously arillate . . . . . •4- Wormia 



Trees ; follicles not expanding nor dehiscing enclosed 



in the thickened pulpy sepals ; seeds not arillate . 5. Dillenia 



1. DELIMA, L. 



Woody climbers. Leaves scabrid, obovate. Flowers small, 

 white, panicled numerous. Sepals 5. Petals 2 to 5. Stamens 

 numerous, filaments dilated upwards, anther-cells much diverging. 

 Carpels solitary. Style subulate, ovules 2 to 3. Follicles ovoid 

 i-seeded. Seed arillate. Species i, tropical Asia. 



(i) D. sarmentosa L. DC. Prodr. i. 69; Bot. Mag. t. 3058; 

 Hook. fil. F.B.I, i. 31; King, I.e. 362. 



Leaves obovate, ovate or lanceolate-entire or serrate, pilose 

 scabrid; nerves 11 to 9 pairs, 2-5 to 3-5 in. long, i to 2 in. wide; 

 petioles -4 to -5 in. Flowers very numerous, fragrant, j to J in. across, 

 in large spreading panicles. Sepals rounded, hairy on edge. Petals 

 ovate-orbicular, white. Stamens and pistil white, the latter becom- 

 ing red. Follicle -5 in. long, ovoid, beaked, hairy. Hab. River 

 banks and forest edges. Common over the whole peninsula (except 

 Singapore) from Johor, Sungei Tebrau, north to Siam. Distrib. 

 India, Malaya, China. Native names : Ampelas putih ; Ampelas 

 hari betina ; Ampelas Tikus. Use : Leaves used for smoothing 

 wood. 



Only the form hebecarpa, with hairy fruit occurs here. D. Icevis, Maingay, 

 King, I.e. is Tetracera borneensis, Miq. 



