Dilleuia»1 



2. DlLLENIACE^. 



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OivDEit 2. DILLENIACE^. 



Shrubs, liei-bs or trees with large penniveined leaves, distinctly 

 alternate. Flowers yellow or white, often showy. Sepals imbricate, 

 persistent. Petals 6-4. Stamens indefinite ; anthers innate with 

 lateral slits or terminal pores. Carpels 1 or more, free or cohering ; 

 styles always distinct ; ovules araphitropous, solitary or few and 

 ascending or many and attjiched to the ventral suture. Fruit of 

 follicles or baccate. Seeds with or without an aril ; albumen fleshy ; 

 embryo minute next the liilum. 



DILLENIA, Linn. 



Trees. Leaves serrate. Flowers solitary or fascicled, yellow or 

 white. Sepals 5. Petals 4-6, deciduous. Stamens numerous in 

 many series, anthers, linear, dehiscing longitudinally or by terminal 

 pores. Carpels 5 — 20; styles as many as ovaries. Fruit globose 

 enclosed in the thickened calyx. Seeds exarillate, naked or immersed 

 in pulp. 



Leaves persistent. Flowers large, white ... 1. D. indica. 



Leaves deciduous. Flowers much smaller, yellow ... 2. D. pentagyna, 



D. indica, Linn. ; Fl. Br. T. 1. 36 ; Brandis For. Fl. 1. B speciosa, 

 Thunb. Dalz. & Gibs. Bomb. Fl. 2 ; Bedd Fl. Sylv. t. 103. Mota 

 kcirmal^ M. ; Olialta, H. 



Himalayas from Nepal to Assam. Southern, Eastern and Western 

 Peninsulas, Extends to Ceylin, Burma and the Malay Archipelago, 

 Planted in various parts of India, Konkan (Savantwadi) ; Kolaba 

 (Alibag) ; Belgaum, I think only cultivated, Fl« Jane, Fr, Feb. 



A medium sized tree. Bark grey, rough, brown within. Wood red 

 with white specks, close-grained, moderately hard and tough. Weighs 

 44 lbs, per cubic foot, durable under water. Used for gunstocks, firewood 

 and charcoal. Ripe fruit eaten in native curries, 



2. D. pentagyna/Roxb, Cor. PI. 1. t, 20 ; Fl. Br, 1. 1. 38 ; Brandis 

 For. Fl, 2 ; Bedd. Fl. Sylv. t. 104 ; Dalz. & Gibs, Bomb, FL 2. Karmal, 

 karamhel, Jmrweil, M. ; Kanagola, K. 



Oudh, Bengal, Assam, Burma, Central, Southern and Western India, 

 throughout the Presidency in deciduous forests, common. Fl. March- 

 Apl. Fr, May. 



A large deciduous tree. Bark grey, scaly ; on quick-growing trees, 

 scarcely any rhytidome, a little at the base. Green cells well developed. 

 Inner bark : large patches of soft white bast mixed with bands and 

 irregular patches of tissue. Wood reddish, grey, strong, heavy, hand- 

 somely marked on a vertical section by the broad medullary rays. Pores 

 small and moderate sized, some often filled with a white substance. 

 Annual rings distinct. Weighs about 45 lbs. to the cub. ft. Used for 

 firewood in North Kanara. Leaves lopped for leaf manure. 



