6 The Flowering Plants of Western India. 



leaflets 3 to 5 lobed, toothed, flowers large and handsome, 

 achenes very silky. Morvel.* 



The highest Ghauts (D. Sf 6?.). Mahableshwar (near the top only 

 Dr. Coo~ke). The colour of the flowers is a lovely pale gold, which, 

 very strangely, is not mentioned in any book that I have seen. 



Two other species much less common are given. C. smilacifolia; 

 leaflets large, entire, oval, with a sudden point, very like the leaves 

 of the common Smilax ; flowers large, purple. Fonda Ghaut (D.). I 

 have seen it (but not in flower), near Bassein. And *C. triloba, with 

 small, long-stalked leaves, simple or ternate, flowers large white, fruit 

 not so much bearded as in some species. The Mawal districts (!>.) 



The following also are found : 



Naravelia. Differing from Clematis in having 6 to 12 petals, and in 

 the terminal leaflet being often changed into a tendril. *N. zeylanica, 

 a climber, with solitary yellowish flowers, the hairy sepals twice as 

 long as the smooth petals. Southern Ghauts (D. fy #.). 



Thalictrum. Erect herbs with sheathing petioles, and no petals, 

 * T. Dalzellii, a small plant with white flowers in a small panicle j 

 achenes with a long straight hooked beak. Harichander (D,). 



Delphinium (Larkspur). Erect herbs with palmate leaves and 

 irregular flowers, one of the five sepals being spurred. * D. dasya- 

 caulum, a branched plant with bright blue showy flowers in a lax 

 raceme, follicles short, hairy. Near Junar (D.). 



ORDER 2. DILLENIACE.E. 



Leaves alternate, simple, sepals 5, persistent, petals 5, deci- 

 duous, stamens many in many series, carpels generally distinct, 

 styles always so. 



A small order, closely allied to Ranunculacefe, but represented here 

 only by two rather striking trees. 



" Rose as in dance the stately trees, and spread 

 Their branches, hung with copious fruit." Milton. 



DILLENIA. Trees with large leaves very strongly veined, 

 and large flowers, carpels 5 to 20, cohering, fruit roundish, 

 formed of the matured carpels enclosed in the thickened calyx. 



1. D. indica {D. speciosa, D.). A fine tree with lanceolate- 

 leaves sharply serrated, collected at the end of the branches ; 

 flowers very large, white, solitary, the sepals roundish, thick 

 and fleshy, the inner stamens arching over the outer ; fruit 

 size of a cocoanut, green, round, with shallow irregular lobes. 

 Mota Karmalj Karambali. 



The Konkans, not common. Cultivated in most parts of India. 

 Brandis. 



" Dillenia, casting its enormous flowers, as big as two fists." 

 Sir J. Hooker. 



* Vel is the common Maratta word for a climbing plant. 



