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than the calyx. Achenes long-stipitate, with long-bearded style. — Distrib. 

 Two E. Asiatic species. 



N. LAURiFOLiA, Wall. Cat. Young parts puberalous, adult glabrous. 

 Leaflets bz'oadly ovate, shortly acuminate, entire, boldly 5-nerved, 4 to 6 in. 

 long by 2*5 to 3 in. broad. Panicles longer than the leaves, many- 

 flowered; petals long, linear, whitish green. Achenes cylindric, glabrous, 

 with stout sericeous tails. Hook. fil. et Th. Fl. Ind. i, 3. ; Hook. fil. Fl. 

 B. Ind. i, 7 ; Miq. Fl. Ind. Bat. I, pt. ii, 2. N. Finlaysoniana, Wall. 

 Cat. 468 (with diseased fruit). Clematis similacina, Bl. Bijdr. i, 1. 



Common throughout the whole Indo-Malayan region to the Philip- 

 pines. 



Order. II DILLENIAOE^. 



Trees, shrubs or hei'bs, sometimes climbing. Leaves alternate, sim- 

 ple, entire or toothed (pinnatipartite in Acrotrema), exstipulate with 

 sheathing petioles, or more rarely with lateral deciduous stipules. 

 Flowers yellow or white, often showy. Sepals 5, imbricate, persistent. 

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

 seriate ; anthers innate, with lateral slits or terminal pores. Carpels 

 1 or more, free or cohering in the axis; styles always distinct; ovules 

 amphitropous, solitary or few ascending, or many and attached to 

 the ventral suture. Fruit follicular, or indehiscent and sub-baccate. 

 Seeds solitary or many, arillate, testa crustaceous, raphe short, albumen 

 fleshy ; embryo minute, next the hilum. — Distrib. Chiefly tropical ; 

 species about 2i0. 



Tribe I. Delimece. I^ilamenfs thickened upwards ; anthers short, 

 cells remote oblique. 



Carpel solitary ... ... ... ... I. Delima. 



Carpels 2-5 ... ... ... ... 2. Tetracera^ 



Tribe II. Dillenieoe. Filaments not thickened upwards ; anthers 

 with parallel cells. 



Carpels 3 ; stemless herbs ; leaves all radical, large... 3. Acrotrema. 



Carpels 5-20; seeds arillate ... ... ... 4. Wormia. 



Carpels 5-20; seeds not arillate ... ... 5. Billenia. 



1. Delima, Linn. 



Woody climbers. Leaves parallel-veined. Flowers many, in ter- 

 minal panicles, hermaphrodite, white. Sepals 5. Petals 2 to 5. Stamens 

 many ; filaments dilated upwards, cells much diverging. Ovary soli- 

 tary, subglobose, narrowed into a subulate style ; ovules 2 to 3, ascending. 

 Foi/icZe5 ovoid, coriaceous, 1 -seeded. Seed with a cupular toothed aril. 



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