ii. DILLENIACE^:. (Hook. f. & Thorns.) 31 



Carpel solitary 1. DKLIMA. 



Carpels 2-5 . . 2. TETKACERA. 



TEIBE II. Dillenieee. Filaments not thickened upwards ; anthers with 

 parallel cells. 



Carpels 3; stem less herbs, leaves all radical large ... 3. ACROTREMA. 



Carpels 3 ; trees or shrubs 4. SCHUMACHERIA. 



Carpels 5-20; seeds arillate 5. WORMIA. 



Carpels 5-20 ; seeds not arillate 6. DILLENIA. 



1. DEZ.XIKA, Linn. 



A woody climber. Leaves very scabrid, parallel-veined. Flowers many, 

 in terminal panicles, hermaphrodite, white. Sepals 5. Petals 2-5. Stamens 

 many : filaments dilated upwards ; cells much diverging. Ovary solitary, 

 subglobose, narrowed into a subulate style ; ovules 2-3, ascending. Folli- 

 cles ovoid, coriaceous, 1-seeded. Seed with a cupular toothed aril. 



1. D. sarznentosa, Linn.; DC. Prodr. \. 69; Watt. Cat. 6632; Rot. 

 Mag. t. 3058. Tetracera sarmentosa, Willd. ; Roxb. Fl. 2nd. ii. 645. 

 Leontoglossum scabrum, Ranee, in Walp. Ann. iii. 812. 



Eastern tropical India, from ASSAM to SINGAPORE. DISTRIB. Eastern Archipelago. 



Leaves 3-5 in., obovate ovate or broadly lanceolate, obtuse or acute, strongly nerved, 

 quite entire serrate or crenate, appressed pilose. Flowers \-\ in. diam., in tomentose 

 or pilose spreading panicles that are often leafy. Sepals reflexed. A very variable 

 plant indeed- 



VAR. 1. GLABRA ; fruit glabrous. 



VAR. 2. HEBECARPA ; fruit hairy. D. hebecarpa, DC. Prodr. i. 70; Deless. Ic. Sel. 

 t. 72 ; Wall. Cat. 6633. D. intermedia, Blume. 



2. TETRACSHA, Linn. 



Trees or climbing shrubs, smooth scabrid or pubescent. Leaves with 

 parallel lateral veins. Flowers in terminal or lateral panicles, herma- 

 phrodite or partially 1-sexual. Sepals 4-6, spreading. Petals 4-6. Stamens 

 many, filaments dilated upwards, anther-cells distant. Carpels 3-5 ; ovules 

 many, 2-seriate. Follicles coriaceous, shining. Seeds 1-5, with a fimbriated 

 or toothed aril. DISTRIB. All tropical ; species about 24. 



1. T. laevis, Valil Symb. iii. 71 ; glabrous, leaves smooth, sepals silky 

 inside glabrous outside, follicles 1-2-seeded. DC. Prodr. i. 68 : Wall. Cat. 

 6627 ;#./< T. Fl Ind. 62. T. Rheedii, DC. Prodr. i. 68 ; W. '& A. Prodr. 

 5 ; Wight Ic. t. 70 T. trigyna, Roxb. Fl. Ind. ii. 645. T. sericea, BL 

 Bijd. 3. 



WESTERN PENINSULA ; forests of Malabar ; and in CEYLON. DISTRIB. Java to 

 Borneo. 



Brandies angular. Leaves 3-5 in., oblong or lanceolate, glabrous, entire or remotely 

 toothed, veins rather distant. Panicles terminating leafy branches, few- or many- 

 flowered. Sepals broadly oval. 



2. T. Assa, DC. Prodr. i. 68 ; young branches strigose, leaves glabrous 

 or hairy on the nerves beneath, sepals glabrous on both surfaces, ciliolate, 

 follicles 3-5-seeded. Wall. Cat. 6629 ; W . & A. Prodr. 5 in note; H.f. & T. 

 Fl. Ind. 63. 



