J 



m very strong 



Sahnites.] xxxiv. simarube^. (Alfred W. Bennett.) 523 



A small tree, 20 ft. high, with glabrous or pubenilous hranches ending ii 



Jeafl^f ^^^ /i ^^^ spines. Leaves of two elliptical or obovate puberulous entire coriaceous 



filif [y^^^ 4-10-flowered. Sepals and petals ovate, velvety-pubescent. Filaments 



irorm-subulate. Fruit large, woody, angular, more than an inch long.— Very nearly 



mi to, and perhaps only a variety of, the B. cegyptiaca of northern and tropical 



♦■^'v.-- 



Order XXXY. OCHKTACE-ffi. (By Alfred W. Bennett, F.L.S.) 



^^ Glabrous trees or shrubs, with watery juice. Leaves alternate, simple, 



fiin^iy^^^- i?^"^^^^^ coriaceous ; stipules 2. Injhrescmce panicled or occa- 

 lonaily umbellate (rarely flowers solitary), bracteate. Flowers her maphro- 

 4 ^i*?^F^^^^"^' ^S'^/^a/s 4-5, free, imbricate, persistent. Petals 5, rarely 

 /vT ^^\ f^^^j hypogynous, imbricate' longer than the sepals, deciduous. 

 J^ enlarged after flowering, occasionally 0. Stamens 4, 5, 8, 10, or inde- 

 time l^^^r*^^ ^^ *^^ disk ; filaments persistent ; anthers basifixed, some- 

 norPQ /? *^^^' dehiscing longitudinally, or often opening by terminal 

 Sri f 1 ^^^1^ ^^oxi, 2-celled or elongate and 1-10-celled ; placenta axile or 

 rti^ '-^^^^ simple, subulate, acute, rarely divided at the extremity, 

 or j^^l ^^^P^^' terminal ; ovules 1-2 in each cell or indefinite, ascending 

 rareiy pendulous, raphe ventral, micropyle superior. Fruit indehiscent, 

 (j^ P^^^^^s or baccate, compound, each drupe or pyrene 1-4-seeded; or 

 Bump ^ 1-5-celIed with septicidal dehiscence. Seeds solitary, few, or 

 erous ; albumen fleshy or ; embryo straight or rarely curved, 

 chipfl ^.^P^rior or inferior.— Distrib. Tropical regions of both hemispheres, 

 «ay American j species about 150. 



htdT^ n! ^^^^©CB- Ovary 2-10-celled ; ovules solitary in each cell. 

 ^ fxalbuminous. . . 



sCn^%f'^^^'^P^^^^^^ . • . . 1. OCHNA. . 



Sepals Lv i ^^®^ P^^^c^'^^e or '^^l^e'^at^ ....... 2. Gomphia. 



' P^'^ls, and stamens 4 3. Tetramerista. 



>^/^n.^'.^'**''L®n^We8B. (9wry semi-6-celled : ovules 2 in each cell. 

 ^5 albuminous, 



mens 5, with alternate staminodes . . ' . . . . . . ^ 4. Euthbmis. 



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1. OCBNA, Linn. 



2-stiDul f^ ^ *^^^ °^ shrubs. Leaves alternate, simple, serrate, rarely entire, 

 ^PQh^ ■^^^^''^^s large, yellow, in bracteate panicles or umbels. 

 S^iiZ^ coloured, persistent. Petal,s 5-10, deciduous. Disk thick, lobed. 

 opening *i' ^^<*rter than the petals, filaments short or elongated ; anthers 

 1-ceIieJ V^'l^tudinally, deciduous. Ovary deeply 3-10-lobed, lobes 

 in each ' ?r ^^ entirely connate or distinct at the apex : ovules solitary 

 erect alvf ' ?^^^®- ^^^^ ol 3-10 drupes seated on the broad disk. Seed 

 I ' '^^^"^aous.— DiSTRiB. Tropical Asia and Africa ; species about 26. 



otlon? t **l?*"o»a» Linn.; DC Frodr. I 735; leaves from narrowly )( 

 llo^era f °°^^"g-ovate or obovate, acute obtuse ormucronate, finely serrate, 

 teiy ov^^^nt, petals 7-12 (rarely 5), anthers very long deciduous, with 

 Ind ii «fi persistent filaments, styles united U>- the apex. Jioxb. Fl. 

 M^^?,' ^^' PI' i. t. 89'; Wight III. 1 1. 69; Grah. Cat. Bond,. Fl. 37; 



^; PJ.I- ^^*^- ^l. Suppl. 17. 0. lucida, LamJ:. III. t. 472, f. i. ; DCf. 

 n ' .':^<inch. ir^ tr„^i. r.J'^r.. „ ^.«, n^^ ^^t. iv. 464, t. 605, f. vi. 



Wall.). O. rufescens (?) 

 735: Wall. Cat. 2805. 



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