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NATUUAL niSTOBY OF PL^iNTS. 



pericarp of no great tliickness, surrounded by the persistent calyx, 

 wliich becomes fleshy. Witliin, imbedded in a soft pulp, are 

 numerous seeds, whose integuments are covered with hairs at the 

 margin, and contain a small embryo near the apex of the lleshy 

 albumen. I), spcciosa is a fine tree with alternate, oval-acute 

 dentate, penninerved leaves, the secondary nerves oblique, pro- 

 jecting, parallel. The llowers are solitary terminal. 



As a separate genus near Dillenia was formerly placed Colbcrtia,' 

 which only differs from it in two unimportant points. The flowers, 

 smaller than those of I), spccio.m, either soUtary or in bunches, have 

 yellow, instead of white petals. The seeds, either imbedded in a 

 soft pulp or surrounded by a thin pericarp, have no hairs on the 



Fig. 155. 

 Flower. 



Wurmia hracteata. 



Fig. 156. 

 Longitudinal section of flower. 



surface. The number of cells in the ovary may be reduced to five, 

 as in the species hence named I), pentayyna:- The ovules horizontal, 

 or more or less ascending, arc arranged in two or more rows in 

 each cell. Thus limited,'* the genus DiUeida includes eight or ten 

 species which grow in India, and the neighbouring portions of the 

 Indian archipelago.^ 



The genus Wormid' is also very near Dillmia, from which it has 



' Salisu., cx DC, SyKi, i. 4.35. — Spacii, 

 Suit, a Buff., vii. 425.— "Knul., Oen., n. 4747. 



•■' Uoxii., /•/. Coromand., i. 21, t. 20. — 

 CMt-rlia ritromaiultl'uimt UC, St/st., i. 435; 

 Prodr., i. 75. 



8 (1. EudiUeiila. Corolla white ; 



Dillenia, 1 nmrj^iiiH of wedi* Imiry. 



Sections 2. j 2. CuUnrliu. (.'oruUu jellow ; 

 ' sc'ccIh KliihrniiH. 



F. MUELLEU liUS lutuly iliwriliLil {Fnnnn.. v. 



175) a D. (Sifnarrhena f) Andreana, an .\ustra- 

 lian upccies with a pale blue corolla. 



* Wam'., Jifp., i. 63; ii. 716; Ann., i. 14; 

 iv. 33.— \Vai,i.., J'l. Asial. liar., t. 22, 23.— 

 Hook. & TnoMS.. Ft. 1ml., i. 69. - Hl.. Itijdraj., 

 6.— Miy., Fl. Ind. H<iL, i. jMirs alt.. 11.— 

 'rii\\\yv.,Fnum. I'l. Z<i/I., 4. — Wionr, llluslr., 

 ii. t. 358. 



' Uonii., Nov. Art. llajn., ii. 522. t. 3, 

 (x DC, Sij.sl., i \:v.\: I'l-udr.. i. 75.— Sl'ACll. 



