Dillenia.l DILLENIACEAE. 1 



TETRACERA LAEVIS, Vahl ; F. B. T. i. 31. T. Rheedii, DC.; 

 W. & A. 5 ; Wt. Ic. t. 70. 



A glabrous climbing shrub with smooth leaves ; sepals glabrous 



outside, silky within, broadly oval ; petals white ; follicles 



1-2-seeded. 



Forests of Malabar and Travancore. 



3. Dillenia, Linn. 



Trees. Leaves large, with conspicuous parallel main nerves. 

 Flowers large, solitary or fascicled, yellow or white. Segals 5, 

 spreading. Petals 5, broad. Stamens cohering slightly at the 

 base ; anthers linear, dehiscing by pores or small slits ; inner erect 

 or recurved, introrse, outer recurved, extrorse. Carpels 5-20, 

 cohering at the axis ; ovules numerous. Fruit globose, com- 

 prising the matured indehiscent carpels and the enveloping 

 thickened fleshy calyx ; seeds not arillate. 



Flowers 2-3 in. across, in few-flowered racemes; sepals silky; leaves 



ovate-oblong, crenate : 



Leaves blunt at top, cuneate at base, serrate, glabrous ; petals narrow, 



spathulate; twigs and peduncles nearly glabrous 1. retusa. 



Leaves blunt at base, crenate, pubescent, at least on the nerves ; petals 

 broadly obovate ; twigs and peduncles very silky 2. bracteata. 



Flowers 1 or 6 in. across, solitary or fascicled on the old wood ; sepals 



glabrous ; leaves oblong-lanceolate, serrate : 



Flowers white, solitary, 6 in. across, terminal, appearing with the 



leaves; leaves under 1 ft. long 3. indica. 



Flowers yellow, clustered on nodes of the old wood, 1 in. across, 

 appearing before the leaves; leaves often 2 ft. long 4. pentafjyna,. 



1. DILLENIA RETUSA, Thunb. ; F. B. I. i. 87; W. & A. 6. 

 Wormia bracteata, Bedd. Fl. t. 115 (not of Wight). 



Forests of the Bolampatti and Anamalai Hills in Coimbatore 



District. 



A large and ornamental tree, scarce in the Peninsula. 



2. DILLENIA BRACTEATA, Wt. Ic. t. 358 ; F. B. I. i. 37. 



Dry forests of the Nilgiris, Mysore, North Arcot and 

 Chingleput, not common. 



3. DILLENIA INDICA, Linn. ; F. B. I. i. 36. D. speciosa, Thunb. ; 

 W. & A. 5 ; Wt. Ic. t. 823 ; Bedd. Fl. t. 103. 



Damp valleys of the hills of the N. Circars ; also in 



