FOREST FLORA 



NOKTH-WEST AND CENTRAL INDIA. 





Order I. DILLENIACE^l. 



Trees or shrubs, rarely herbs, not aromatic, with simple alternate leaves 

 and dilated petioles, or more rarely with deciduous stipules. Sepals 5. 

 persistent, imbricate. Petals hypogynous, 5 or 4, imbricate, deciduous. 

 Stamens hypogynous, numerous, in many series. Anthers dehiscing lon- 

 gitudinally or by terminal pores. Carpels one or more, free, or cohering 

 with the axis. Seeds solitary, few, or many, albuminous ; albumen fleshy ; 

 embryo minute. In most genera, but not in Dillenia, the seeds are aril- 

 late. Gen. PL i. 10; Eoyle 111. 58; Wight 111. i. 6. 



1. DILLENIA, Linn. 

 Trees with large penniveined leaves, lateral nerves prominent ; leaves 

 generally approximate at the end of branches, leaving large scars when 

 they fall. Mowers large, bisexual, solitary or fascicled, yellow or white. 

 Petals 5. Anthers linear, bursting at the top by small slits or pores. 

 Carpels "5 to 20, cohering in the axis; styles as many as ovaries, spread- 

 ing. Fruit globose, enclosed in the thickened calyx. 



Flowers white ; seeds pilose 1. D. indica. 



Flowers yellow ; seeds glabrous. 



Flowers fascicled ; leaves oblong-lanceolate . . 2. D. pentagyna. 



Flowers solitary ; leaves obovate . . . . 3. D. aurea. 



1. D. indica, Linn.; Wight Ic. t. 823; Bedd. PL Sylv. t. 103; 

 Hook. PL Ind. i. 36. Syn. D. speciosa, Thunb. ; Roxb. PL Ind. ii. 650 ; 

 W. & A. Prodr. 5. Yern. Chalta, Beng. ; Mota Kamnal, Mahr. ; Tha- 

 byuben, Burm. 



Leaves oblong-lanceolate, 8-10 in. long, deeply and sharply serrate, with 

 numerous parallel stout ribs ending in the points of the serratures, coria- 

 ceous, hard when old. Petioles 1-1 J in. long, channelled and sheathing. 

 Flowers with the leaves, solitary, large, sometimes 9 in. across, odorous. 

 Sepals concave, thick and fleshy, edge thin and membranous. Petals 

 oblong, waved, white. Outer stamens erect, inner longer, recurved. 



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