Delima.] floua indica. 61 



vel poris 3 apicalibus dehiscentes. Ovaria discreta vel in axi mediante 

 columna central! cohserentia, unilocularia (rariua solitaria) intus vel 

 basi ovulifera. Styli discreti, terminales. Carpella dehiscentia follicu- 

 laria, vel subbaccata indehiscentia. Semina 1 vel plura, arillata, testa 

 Crustacea granulata vel cancellata, rhaphi brevi, amphitropa. Embryo 

 minutus, hilo proximus. Albumen carnosum. — Arbores, frutices, vel 

 herbae, interdum scandentes. Folia alterna, decidua vel peraistentia. 

 Petioli basi dilatati vel atipulis adnatis cito deciduis muniti. 



This Order, which is usaally placed next to Banunculaceee, is undoubtedly very 

 nearly allied to that Order, as well as to Magnoliacece , but has also a marked rela- 

 tiouship to some Orders which are generally placed at a considerable distance, being 

 connected both with TernsirSmiacete and Ericacets by means of Saurauja, whichj 

 though referred by most botanists to the former of those Orders, is by Lindley and 

 Planehon considered an undoubted member of the present family. We shall have an 

 opportunity of entering fully into the question of these curious affinities when we 

 describe the genus Saurauja, which, on account of its syncarpous fruit, we propose 

 to place in or near Ternstromiace<s. 



The species of Dilleniacea are either tropical or Australian. The latter country 

 probably contains the largest part of the Order, in the shape of small herbaceous 

 plants or under-shrubs, sometimes cUmbing. No species are found beyond the tropics 

 in America, but in the eastern hemisphere a few stragglers extend as far as the base 

 of the Himalaya, and into southern China. 



Tribus I. Delimeji;, DC. 

 Stamina superne dilatata, antheris remotis obliquis divarioatis. 



1. DELIMA, L., DC. 



TraehyteHa, DC. St/st. i. 410, Prod. i. 70. Leontoglossum, Hance in Walp. Ann. 

 ii. 18. iii. 812. 



Flores hermaphroditi. Sepala 5. Fetala 4-5. Stamina indefinita. 

 Ovarium solitarium, depresso-subglobosum, in stylum subulatum at- 

 tenuatum ; ovula 2-3 e basi adscendentia. Folliculus ovalis, angulo 

 interior! dehiseens. Semen solitarium, arillo cupuliformi deuticulato 

 cinctum. — Frutex scandens sarmentosus, foliis asperrimis, floribus in 

 paniculas terminales dispositis albis. 



Tropical climbing shrubs, all but one American. 



1. D. sarmentosa (L. Sp. lie).—Burm. Tl. Ind. 122. t. Bl.f. 1 ; 

 DO. Prod. i. 69; JTall. Cat. 6632! Bot. Mag. 3058! Hook, et Am. 

 Bot. Beech.; Bentli. Kew Journ. Bot. iii. 256. D. intermedia, Blume 

 Bijd. 4 ; Hassk. PI. Jav. Bar. 176. Actsea aspera, Lour. Fl. Coch. ed. 

 fFilld. i. 405. Tetracera sarmentosa, TFilld.; Roxb. PL Ind. ii. 645. 

 TraehyteHa Actaea, DO. Prod. i. 70. Leontoglossum scabrum, Hance, 

 I.e. 



a. glabra ; fructu glabro. 



0. hebecarpa ; fructu piloso. — D. hebecarpa, DC. Syst. i. 407, 

 Prod. i. 70; Deless. Ic. Sel. t. 72; Wall. Cat. 6633 ! 



