than the calyx. Achenes long stipitate, with long-bearded style. — Distrib. 
Two E. Asiatic species. 
N. ladrifolia, Wall. Cat. Young parts puberulous, adu.lt glabrous. 
Leaflets broadly ovate, shortly acuminate, entire, boldly 5-nerved, 4 to 6 in. 
long by 2*5 to 3 in. broad. Fanicles longer than the leaves, mauy- 
flowered ; petals long, linear, whitish green. Achenes cylindric, glabrous, 
with stout sericeous tails. Hook. fil. et Th. PI. Iud. i, 3.; Hook. fil. Bl 
B. Ind. i, 7 : Miq. Fl. Ind. Bat. I, pt. ii, 2. N. Fintaysoniana, Wall. 
Cat. 468 (with diseased fruit). Clematis similacina f Bl. liijdr, I, 1. 
Common throughout the whole Indo-Malayan region to the Philip- 
pines. 
Order II. DILLENIACE JE. 
Trees, shrubs or herbs, sometimes climbing. Leaves alternate, sim- 
ple, entire or toothed (pinnatipartite in Acrotrema) t exstipulato with 
sheathing petioles, or more rarely with lateral deciduous stipules. 
Flowers yellow or white, often showy. Sepals 5, imbricate, persistent. 
Petals 5 (rarely 3 or 4) deciduous. Stamens many, hypogynous, many- 
seriate ; anthers innate, with lateral slits or terminal pores. Oarpels 
1 or more, free or cohering in the axis ; styles always distinct ; ovules 
amphitropous, solitary or few and ascending, or many and attached to 
the ventral suture. "Bruit of follicles, or indehiscent and sub-baccate. 
S'jeJs solitary or many, arilLiU 1 , tusta crustaeeuiis, raphe short, albumen 
fleshy ; embryo minute, next the hiluiu. — Distrib. Chiefly tropical ; 
species about 210. 
Tribe I. Delime&. Filaments^ thickened upwards ; anthers short, 
cells remote oblicpie. 
Carpel solitary ... ... ... 1. Ddima. 
Carpels 2-5 ... ... ... ... 2. Tvtmcera. 
Tribe II. Dilkniece. Filaments not thickened upwards; anthers 
with parallel cells. 
Carpels 3; steraless herbs, leaves all radical, large... 3. Acrotrema, 
Carpels 5-20 ; seeds arillate ... ... 4. Wormia. 
Carpels 5-20; seeds not arillate ... ... 5. Dillenia, 
1. Delima, Linn. 
Woody climbers. Leaves parallel-veined. Flowers many, in ter- 
minal panicles, hermaphrodite, white. Sepals 5. Petals 2 to 5. Stamens 
many ; filaments dilated upwards ; cells much diverging. Ovary soli- 
tary, subglobose, narrowed into a subulate style ; ovules 2 to 3, ascending. 
I vilicles ovoid, coriaceous, 1-soeded. Seed with a cupnlar toothed aril. 
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