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vel poris 2 apicalibus debiscentes. Ovaria discreta vel in axi mediante 

 columna centrali cohserentia, unilocularia (rarius solitaria) intus vel 

 basi ovulifera. Styli discreti, terminales. Carpella dehiscentia follicu- 

 laria, vel subbaccata indehiscentia. Semina 1 vel plura, arillata, testa 

 Crustacea granulata vel cancellata, rhaphi brevi, arnphitropa. Embryo 

 minutus, bilo proximus. Albumen carnosum. — Arbores, frutices, vel 

 herbs, interdum scandentes. Folia alterna, decidua vel persistentia. 

 Petioli basi dilatati vel stipulis adnatis cito deciduis muniti. 



This Order, which is usually placed next to Ranunculacea , is undoubtedly very 

 nearly allied to that Order, as well as to Maynoltacea > but has also a marked rela- 

 tionship to some Orders which are generally placed at a considerable distance, being 

 connected both with Ternstromiacece and Ericacece by means of Saurauja, which, 

 though referred by most botanists to the former of these Orders, is by Lindley and 

 Planchon considered an undoubted member of the present family. We shall have an 

 opportunity of entering fully into the question of these curious affinities when we 

 describe the genus Saurauja, w f hich, on account of its syncarpous fruit, we propose 

 to place in or near Ternstromiacea. 



The species of Dilleniacea are either tropical or Australian. The latter country 

 probably contains the largest part of the Order, in the shape of small herbaceous 

 plants or under-shrubs, sometimes climbing. No species are found beyond the tropics 

 in America, but in the eastern hemisphere a few stragglers extend as far as the base 

 of the Himalaya, and into southern China. 



Tribus I. Delimejs, DC. 



Stamina superne dilatata, antheris remotis obliquis divaricatis 



1. DELIMA, L., DC. 



Trachytella, DC. Syst. i. 410, Prod. i. 70. Leontoglossum, Eance in Waljp. Ann. 

 ii. 18. iii. 812. 



Flores hermapbroditi. Sepala 5. Petala 4-5. Stamina indefinite. 

 Ovarium solitarium, depresso-subglobosum, in stylum subulatura at- 

 tenuatum ; ovida 2-3 e basi adscendentia. Folliculus ovalis, angulo 

 interior! dehiscens. Semen solitarium, arillo cupuliformi denticulato 

 cinctum. — Frutex scandens sarmentosus, foliis asperrimis, floribus in 

 paniculas terminales dispositis albis. 



Tropical climbing shrubs, all but one American. 



1. D. sarmentosa (L. Sp. 736).— Burm. Fl. Ind. 122. t. 37./. 1 ; 

 DC. Prod. i. 69; Wall Cat. 6632! Hot. Mag. 3058! Hook, et Am. 

 Bot. Beech.; Benth. Kew Journ. Bot. iii. 256. D. intermedia, Blume 

 Bijd. 4 ; Hassle. PL Jav. Bar. 176. Actaea aspera, Lour. Fl. Coch. ed. 

 Willd. i. 405. Tetracera sarmentosa, JFilld.; Roxb. FL Ind. ii. 645. 

 Trachytella Actsea, DC. Prod. i. 70. Leontoglossum scabrum, Ha?ice, 



I. c. 



a. glabra ; fructu glabro. 



0. hebecarpa ; fructu piloso. — D. hebecarpa, DC. SysL i. 407, 

 Prod. i. 70; Deless. Ic. Sel. t. 72; Wall. Cat. 6633 ! 



