36 II. DILLENIACE^. (Hook. f. & Thorns.) [Wormia. 



tata, DC. Prodr. i. 75. Dillenia dentata, Thunb. in Trans. Linn. Soc. i. 201, 

 t. 20. 



Moist warm parts of CEYLON, up to 2000 ft. 



A tree, bark black, young parts hoary. Leaves 5-8 by 4-5 in., tip obtuse or sub- 

 truncate, base rounded; petiole 2-3 in. Flowers 2 in. diam., white, in subtenuinal 

 leaf-opposed secund few-flowered racemes ; pedicels 1 in., thickened upwards. Cin'j_n U 

 5, indehiscent, 1-2-seeded. 



4. W. pulchella, Jack. Afal. M ',.<-. ex I [nob. Comp. P>t. M<t<j. i. 2:M ; 

 leaves obovate obtuse, nerves distant, petiole slightly margined. 11. f. d- T. 

 Fl LuL 68. 



EASTERN PENINSULA; Malacca, Griffith. DISTRIB. Sumatra. 



A small tree ; branches dark grey, glabrous. Leaves 4-5 by 2-3 in., quite entire, 

 coriaceous, tip obtuse, truncate or refuse, nmcronat. :h< -r ilisiant ; 



petiole 1 in., channelled, base slightly sh.-athing. Fl<>u-i-r* _' iii. diam., on axilla 

 opposed ebracteale peduncles. Xijtals broadly ovate, glabrous. FollidL* o, l'e\\ 

 Seeds few, aril red pulpy. 



6. DliLENIA, Linn. 



Trees. L<*aws broad, with conspicuous parallel lateral nerve-. 

 large, solitary or fascicled, yellow or white. &po& 5, spreading. 1 

 broad. St<uiu-nx nearly free ; anthers linear, bursting by small slits or 

 jtoro; inner erect or recurved introrse, outer recurved extrorse. t 

 5-20, cohering in the axis ; ovules indefinite. Fruit globose, formed oi'the 

 matured indehiscent carpels inclosed in the thickened calyx. /v-</.s naked 

 or immersed in pulp, exarillate. DIMUII;. Tropical Asia; . 



SECT. I. Eudillenia. r>i>tent. white, (always?) ap- 



pearing with the leaves, solitary or racemed, teruiinal or loa 



1. D. indica, Lift//.; leaves lanceolate serrate, i! iitary very 

 Urge, sepals fleshy. ///// i/fn </< TI-UH*. Linn. $<-. \\.\\\\. D. >pc<-ii>.>a an<l 

 B. elliptica. T Intnl. in Tram. Linn. Soc. i. -no; In'. Prodr. i. 7<i; \\\ill. 

 Cat. 943; W. & A. Pru.lr. f, ; )\'i,//,l Ic. N23 ; //./. d'- T. FL ////. <;<). 



Tropical forests in the \\'I>H:KN I'I.MN.-II.A, I'.i-liar and Ceylon, and the 1 II.MAI.\\ A, 

 from Nipal to As^am. EASTKKN I'KM.N>I:I.A fruin iSiihet to Sincapore. DIM i;ii;. Malay 

 Archipelago. 



A round headed tree, branchlets tomentose. Leaves 8-10 by 2-4 in., fascicled at 

 the ends of the branches, acute, veins close-set, glabrous above, |ml ially on 



the nerves beneath. Flowcrt Gin. diam., subtt-rminal. Scpalj ol"licular. tlii^k and 

 fleshy. Petal* white, obovate. Inner stamens arching over the outer. Seeds com- 

 pressed, margins hairy. 



2. X>. ovata, Wall. Cat. 945 ; leaves ovate denticulate, flowers solitary, 

 sepals thick. 11. f. & T. FL I ml. 70. 



EASTERN PENINSULA ; Penang, Wallich, &c. 



A tree, branches softly tomeutose. Leaves 8 by 5 in., acute or subacute, base 

 rounded and suboblique, glabrous or pubescent on the nerves above, softly pu' 1 

 beneath; petiole 1-1^ in., tomentose. Flowers ou termiual or leaf-opposed peduncles 

 2 in. long. Colour of flower unknown. 



3. D. meliosmae folia, //. /. & T. ; leaves obovate-oblong acuminate 

 serrate, flowers 1--2 terminal, sepals densely tomentose. 



EASTERN PENINSULA ; Malacca, Griffith. 



A tree; bark grey, striated; branchlets densely clothed with fulvous tomentum. 



