20 " DILLENIACER. [ Dillenia. 
toothed, slightly pubescent while young, soon turning quite glab- 
rous and glossy, coriaceous; flowers about 4 in. in diameter or 
larger, yellow, solitary, on a 14 to 2 in. long, straight, greyish, 
pubescent peduncle arising laterally below the leaf-buds at the end 
of the former year’s branchlets; petals about 2 in. long, obovate, 
narrowed in a br ase; sepals ciliate, appressed, silky, pubescent ; 
styles and carpels about 12; ripe carpels enclosed in the enlarged 
fleshy globular calyx of an orange-yellow colour, about 1} in. in 
iameter. 
Has.—In the open forests, chiefly in the Eng and low forests, frequent in 
Prome, but more common in Pegu and Martaban, up to 1,000 ft, elevation ; in the 
Sittang zone occurring also in low savannah-forests on shallow alluvium, probably 
resting on gravelly or laterite strata. Fl. H.S.; Fr. Begin of R. S—l— 
$S.=CaS. Lat. Arg. . | 
Remarxs.—Wood hard and strong, used for rice-mills. W. O'=69 pd. The 
trunk remains usually low and crooked. - | 
; H.-£, Ind. Fl. i: 87; Brand. For. F. 2— 
3. D. aurea, Sm. 
A tree (50—60 + 10—25 + 5—6), shedding leaves during HS., 
the young shoots appressed-pubescent ; leaves obovate to elliptically 
coloured pubescent calyx of 14 to 2 in. in diameter. 
- Has.—Drier hill forests, frequent in Martaban and Tenasserim, at elevations 
from 2,000 to 3,000 feet—Fl. H.S.; Fr. Beginning of R. 8—1._-8s. = Metam. 
4 D, pilosa, Roxb.—A tree (80—90 + 40—50 + 8—9), shed- 
