II. DILLENIACE^. (Hook. f. & ThoHlS.) ' 31 



Cai-pel solitary 1. Delima. 



Carpels 2-5 2. Teteacbra. 



Teibe II. DiUenieee. Filaments not thickened upwards ; anthers with 

 parallel cells. 



Carpels 3 ; stemless herbs, leaves all radical large ... 3. Aoroteema. 



Carpels 3 ; trees or shrubs 4. ScHnMACHEEiA. 



Carpels 5-20; seeds arillate 5. Wokmia. 



Carpels 5-20 ; seeds not arillate 6. Dillenia. 



1. DEIiinXA, Linn. 



A woody climber. Leaves very scabrid, parallel-veined. Flowers many, 

 in terminal panicles, hermaphrodite, white. Sepals 5. Petals 2-5. Stamens 

 many; filaments dilated upwards: cells much diverging. Ovary solitary, 

 subglobose, narrowed into a subulate style ; ovules 2-3, ascending. Folli- 

 cles ovoid, coriaceous, 1-seeded. Seed with a cupular toothed aril. 



1. D. sarmentosa, Linn.; DC. Prodr.i. 69; Wall. Cat. 6632; Bot. 

 Mag. t. 3058. Tetracera sarmentosa, WUld. ; RoA. Fl. Ind. ii. 645. 

 Leontoglossum scabrum, Hance. in Walp. Ann. iii. 812. 



Eastern tropical India, from Assam to Sihoapore. — Distrib. Eastern Archipelago. 



Leaves 8-5 in., obovate ovate or broadly lanceolate, obtuse or acute, strongly nerved, 

 quite entire serrate or crenate, appressed pilose. Flowers \-\ in. diam., in tomentose 

 or pilose spreading panicles that are often leafy. Sepals reflexed. — A very variable 

 plant indeed- 



Vak. 1. glabra ; fruit glabrous. 



Vak. 2. HEBECARPA ; fruit hairy. D. hebeoarpa, DC. Prod/r. i. 70; Deless. Ic. Sel. 

 t. 72 ; Wall. Oat. 6633. D. intermedia, Blwme. 



2. TETRACSRA, Linn. 



Trees or climbing shrubs, smooth scabrid or pubescent. Leaves with 

 parallel lateral veins. Flowers in terminal or lateral panicles, herma- 

 phrodite or partially 1-sexual. Sepals 4^6, spreading. Petals 4-6. Stamens 

 many, filaments dilated upwards, anther-cells distant. Carpels 3-5 ; ovules 

 many, 2-seriate. Follicles coriaceous, shining. Seeds 1-5, with a fimbriated 

 or toothed aril. — Disteib. All tropical ; species about 24. 



1. T. laevis, VaM Symb. iii. 71 ; glabrous, leaves smooth, sepals silky 

 inside glabrous outside, follicles 1-2-seeded. DC. Prodr. i. 68 ; Wall. Cat. 

 6627 ■,H.f.& T. Fl. Lnd. 62. T. Rheedii, DC. Prodr. i. 68 ; W. d: A. Prodr. 

 5 ; Wight Ic. t. 70 T. trigyna, Roxb. Fl. Ind. ii. 645. T. serioea, Bl. 

 Bijd. 3. 



Westeen Peninsdla; forests of Malabar; and in Ceylom. — Disteib. Java to 

 Borneo. . , • 



Branches angular. Leaves 3-5 in., ,oblong or lanceolate, glabrous, entire or remotely 

 toothed, veins rather distant. Panicles terminating leafy branches, few- or many- 

 flov?ered. Sepals broadly oval. 



2. T. AsSa, DC. Prodn-. i. 68 ; young branches strigose, leaves glabrous 

 or hairy on the nerves beneath, sepals glabrous on both surfaces, ciliolate, 

 follicles 3-5-seeded. Wall. Cai. 6629 ; W..& A. Prodr. 5 innate ; H.f.& T. 



'Fl.Ind.63. 



