Wormia
(named in honour of Olaus Wormius, a famous Danish philosopher and naturalist). SYN. Lenidia. ORD. Dilleniaceae. A genus comprising nine species of stove trees; one is found in the Mascarene Islands, another is Australian, and the rest inhabit tropical Asia. Flowers showy, disposed in terminal, often few-flowered panicles; sepals five, spreading; petals five; stamens nearly free. Leaves ample, parallel-penniveined. Only two species have been introduced. They thrive in a light, sandy loam. Cuttings of half-ripened wood root readily, if inserted in sand, under a glass, in bottom heat. W. Burbidgei (Burbidge's)* fl. pale golden-yellow, 3in. in diameter, sub-cymose on a simple peduncle 2in. to 4in. long; petals obovate-oblong, with broadly undulated margins; stamens almost white. July. l 8in. to 10in. long, almost exactly elliptic, the base contracted and decurrent as a very broad petiole, 1in. to 1 1/2in. long, which expands and is amplexicaul at base. Branches terete. North Borneo. (B. M. 6531.) W. dentata (toothed). A synonym of W. triquetra.
W. triquetra (triquetrous). fl. white, 2in. in diameter, in sub-terminal, leaf-opposed, secund, few-flowered racemes; pedicles 1in. long, thickened upwards. May. l. broadly oval, 5in. to 8in. long, repand-toothed or sinuated, the tip obtuse or subtruncate, the base rounded; petioles with broad, sheathing, deciduous wings. h. 20ft. Ceylon, 1818. SYN. W. dentata.