8 FLORA OF MADRAS. [Dillenia. 



the Malabar Ghats; often cultivated in gardens and near 

 temples. 



A beautiful evergreen tree. Vern. Hind. Chalta ; Ur. Rai ; 

 TeL Pedda Kalinga ; Tarn. Uva ; Mai. Syalita ; Mar. Mota 

 Karmal. 



4. DILLENIA PENTAGYNA, Roxb. Cor. PI. i. t. 20 ; F. B. I. i. 38 ; 

 W. & A. 5; Bedd. Fl. t. 104. 



Dry forests and grass lands in most Districts, common 

 and conspicuous both in leaf and in flower. 

 A deciduous tree. Vern. Ur. Eai ; Tel. Chinna Kalinga ; 

 Tarn. Nai-tekku ; Mai. Koddapanna. 



Family III. MAGNOLIACEAE. 



Trees or shrubs, sometimes climbing, often aromatic. Leaves 

 alternate, entire or rarely toothed; stipules convolute or 0. 

 Flowers axillary and terminal, sometimes unisexual, white 

 yellow or red, often showy and fragrant. Sepals and petals 

 similar, very deciduous, arranged in whorls of 3. Stamens very 

 numerous or rarely as few as 5, hypogynous, filaments free or 

 monadelphous ; anthers adnate, basifixed, dehiscing longitudinally. 

 Carpels indefinite, free or cohering to an elongated axis or in one 

 whorl ; styles usually short, stigmatose on the inner surface ; 

 ovules anatropous or amphitropous, 2 or more on the ventral 

 suture. Fruit baccate, follicular or of woody dehiscent carpels 

 which are sometimes arranged in a cone. Seeds 1 or few, some- 

 times pendulous from a long funicle ; testa single and crustaceous 

 or double with the outer part fleshy ; albumen granular or fleshy 

 and oily ; embryo minute ; cotyledons spreading ; radicle short, 

 blunt, next the hilum. 



Trees with perfect flowers and oblong spikes of leathery dehiscent 



carpels ......1. Michelia. 



Climbers with unisexual flowers and globular fleshy fruits... 2. Kadsura. 



1. Miehelia, Linn. 



Trees. Leaves evergreen or deciduous, enveloped in bud in 

 their connate, convolute stipules. Flowers solitary, axillary or 

 terminal. Sepals and petals similar, 9-15 or more, in 3 or more 

 rows. Stamens numerous, manyTseriate, with flat filaments ; 



