Naravelia.] 
I. RANUNCULACE^E. 
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Petals linear clubbed, green. Stamens numerous yellow. Pistils 
hairy. Hab. Hedges in rice-fields. Perlis at Kanga (Ridley). 
Order II. DILLENIACEiE. 
Trees, shrubs or climbers, rarely herbs. Leaves alternate simple, 
toothed or entire exstipulate. Flowers in panicles or racemes, yellow 
or white, often large and showy. Sepals 5, imbricate persistent. 
Petals 5, rarely 3 or 4, deciduous. Stamens many, hypogynous, 
multiseriate, anthers introrse. Carpels 1 to 5 free, or cohering. 
Styles distinct, ovules solitary or many attached to the ventral 
suture. Fruit of coriaceous dehiscent or indehiscent follicles. 
Seeds 1 to many, usually arillate, albuminous. Tropics of both 
hemispheres. {King, Journ. As. Soc. Beng. lviii. (2), 4.) 
Tribe 1. Delimit. Woody climbers; filaments dilated 
upwards. 
Carpel 1 ........ 1. Delima 
Carpels 2 to 5.2. Tetracera 
Tribe 2. Dillenie^e. Herb, shrubs or trees; filaments 
not dilated. 
Herb, stemless; leaves radical .... 3. Acrotrema 
Trees or shrubs; follicles dehiscing expanding; seeds 
conspicuously arillate ...... 4. Wormia 
Trees; follicles not expanding nor dehiscing enclosed 
in the thickened pulpy sepals ; seeds not arillate . 5. Dillenia 
1 . DELIMA, L. 
Woody climbers. Leaves scabrid, obovate. Flowers small, 
white, panicled numerous. Sepals 5. Petals 2 to 5. Stamens 
numerous, filaments dilated upwards, anther-cells much diverging. 
Carpels solitary. Style subulate, ovules 2 to 3. Follicles ovoid 
i-seeded. Seed arillate. Species 1, tropical Asia. 
(1) D. sarmentosa L. DC. Prodr. i. 69; Bot. Mag. t. 3058; 
Hook. fil. F.B.I. i. 31; King, l.c. 362. 
Leaves obovate, ovate or lanceolate-entire or serrate, pilose 
scabrid; nerves 11 to 9 pairs, 2-5 to 3*5 in. long, 1 to 2 in. wide; 
petioles *4 to -5 in. Flowers very numerous, fragrant, £ to £ in. across, 
in large spreading panicles. Sepals rounded, hairy on edge. Petals 
ovate-orbicular, white. Stamens and pistil white, the latter becom¬ 
ing red. Follicle -5 in. long, ovoid, beaked, hairy. Hab. River 
banks and forest edges. Common over the whole peninsula (except 
Singapore) from Johor, Sungei Tebrau, north to Siam. Distrib. 
India, Malaya, China. Native names : Ampelas putih; Ampelas 
hari betina; Ampelas Tikus. Use: Leaves used for smoothing 
wood. 
Only the form hebecarpa, with hairy fruit occurs here. D. lesvis, Maingay, 
King, l.c. is Tetracera borneensis, Miq. 
