86 - II. DiLLENiACE^. (Hook. f. & Thoms.) [Wormia. 



tata, DG. Frodr. L 75. Dillenia deatata, Thunb. in. Trans. Linn. Soc. i. 20J, 

 t. 20. 



Moist warm parts of Oetlon, up to 2000 ft. . t. i 



A trep, bark black, young parts hoary. Leaves Ji-8 by 4-5 in., tip obtuse or sub- 

 truncate, baseTounded; petiole 2-3 in. Mowers 2 in. diam., white, m Bubterminal 

 ■leaf-opposed secund few-flowered racemes ; pedicels 1 in., thickened upwards. Carpels 

 5, indehisoent, 1-2-seeded. 



4. Vr. pulchella, Jack. Mai. Misc. ex Hook Comp.'Bot. Mag. i. 221; 

 leaves obovate obtuse, nerves distant, petiole slightly margined. H.f. & T. 

 Fl. Ind. 68. 



Eastbkn Peninsula; Malacca, Griffith. — DisTjiiB. Sumatra. 



A small tree ; branches dark grey, glabrous. Leaves ir-b by 2-3 in., quite entire, 

 coriaceous, tip obtuse, truncate or retuse, mucronate, base acute, nerves rather distant ; 

 petiole 1 in., channelled, base slightly sheathing. Flowers 2 in. diam., on axillary leaf- 

 opposed ebracteate pedunqles. Sepals broadly ovate, glabrous. Follicles 5, few-seeded. 

 I /Seeds few, aril red piilpy. 



6. DXXiZiENXA, Linn. 



Trees. Leaves broad, with conspicuous parallel lateral nerves. Mowers 

 large, solitary or fascicled, yellow or wHtg. Hepals 5, spreading. Petals .5, 

 broad. Stamens nearly free ; anthers linear, bursting by small slits or 

 pores ; inner erect or recurved introrse, outer recurved extrorse. Carpels 

 5-20, cohering in the axis ; ovules indefinite. Fruit globose, formed of the 

 matured indehiscent carpels inclosed in the thickened calyx. Seeds naked 

 or immersed in pulp, exariUate. — DiSteib. Tropical Asia ; species 12. 



Sect. I. XSudillenia. ^ Z«afes persistent. Flowers white, (always?) ap- 

 pearing with the leaves, solitary or racemed, terminal or leaf-opposed. 



1. D. indlca, Likn. ; leaves lanceolate serrate, flowers soHtary very 

 large, sepals fleshy. Hamilton in Trans. Linn. Soc. xv. 99. D. speciosa and 

 D. elliptica. Thunb.in Trans. Linn. Soc. i. 200; DC. Prodr. i. 76; Wall. 

 Gat. 943 ; W. & A. Prodr. 5 ; Wight Ic. 823 ; E.f.dc T. Fl. Ind. 69. 



Tropical forests in the Western Peninsula, Behar and Oeylon, and the Himalaya, 

 from Nipal to Assam. Easteen Peninsula from Silhet to Sinoapore.— Distrib. Malay 

 Archiptlago. 



A round headed tree, branchlets tomentose. Leaves 8-10 by 2-4 in., fascicled at 

 the ends of the branches, acute, veins close-set, glabrous above, pubescent especially on 

 the nerves beneath. Flowers 6 in. diam., suhterminal. Sepals orbicular, thick ^and 

 fleshy. Petals white, obovate. Inner stamens arching over the outer. Seeds com- 

 pressed, margins hairy. 



2. D. ovata, Wall. Cat. 945 ; leaves ovate denticulate, flowers solitary, 

 sepals thick. H.f. d: T. Fl. Ind. 70. 



Eastern Peninsula; Penang, WaStcA, &c. 



A tree, branches softly tomentose. Leaves 8 by 5 in., acute or subacute, base 

 rounded and_ suboblique, glabrous or pubescent on the nerves above, softly pubescent 

 beneath ; petiole 1-1 J in., tomentose. Flowers on terminal or leaf-opposed' peduncles 

 2 in. long. — Colour of flower unknown. 



3. D. meliosmaefolia, H, f. & T.j leaves obovate-oblong acuminate 

 serrate, flowers 1-2 terminal, sepals densely tomentose. 



Easteen Peninsula; Malacca, Oriffith. 



A tree; bark grey, striated; branchlets densely clothed with fulvous tomentum. 



