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Gen. Cuar. Stems herbaceous: leaves alternate, palmately- 
multifid : flowers racemose, each pedicel with one bract at its base, 
and two between that and the flower: calyx irregular, the upper 
sepal produced downwards into a kind of spur: petals 4, sometimes 
united: capsules follicular, 1~5 in each flower, distinct, 1-valved : 
seeds several. 
(1) D. avrissiuum. (Wall.) 
Ident. Hook & Thoms. flor. Ind. I. p. 51. 
Engrav. Wall. pl, As. Rar. IT. t. 128. 
Srec. Cuan. Stem slender, hirsute with hairs, branched, few- 
leaved, rarely glabrescent at the base: radical leaves very long- 
petioled, ‘sparingly pubescent or somewhat glabrous on both sides, 
5-7-lobed ; lobes broadly-cuneate, 3-lobed and sharply toothed : 
floral leaves subsessile, 3-lobed, upper ones linear bractezeform : 
sepals oval, hairy outside: posterior petals with a subulate spur 
obliquely angular, 2-toothed, dark-purple, anterior ones 2-lobed, 
hairy : racemes lax, few-flowered: flowers large, long-pedicelled : 
follicles 3, pubescent. 
Khasia mountains, flowering in the autumn.. The flowers sali 
are viglet-coloured are very foetid. 
(2) D. pasycauton. (Fresen.) 
Ident. YFresen. Mus. senkenb. II. p. 272.—Dalz. Bomb. flor. 
p. 2. 
Sprc. Cuar. Stem branched: radical leaves large, kidney- 
shaped, 5 lobed: segments 3-lobed and deeply cut, cauline leaves 
5-cleft: racemes lax, elongated: flowers blue. 
Jooneer, Bombay. Flowering in August and September. 
ORDER II. DILLENIACEZ. 
Trees, shrubs, or under-shrubs, with alternate rarely oppo- 
site, ex-stipulate leaves: sepals 5, persistent, 2 exterior, 3 in- 
terior: petals 4, hypogynous, in a single row: stamens 5-10, or 
numerous, hypogynous: filaments dilated either at the base or 
apex: anthers adnate, bursting lengthwise, or by two terminal 
pores: ovaries definite, with a terminal style, and simple stigma : 
fruit of 1-5 distinct carpels, or of a similar number cohering 
together, either baccate, or capsular and surmounted by the 
