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Ochna.]' XXXV. ocHNACEiE. (Alfred W. Bennett.) 525 



6. ffi O. brevipes, Planch, in Hook Lond. Jour. Bot v. 652; flowers 

 nearly sessile in compound fascicles, anthers somewhat longer than the 

 filameuts, styles undivided. . 



Pegu. ' 



^am unknown, deciduous. Flowers \-% in. across. Sepals elUptical. Petals 5, 

 ooovate, suddenly narrowed into a claw. Styles about as long as stamens. 



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2. GOMPKZA, Schreb. 



^^ple ; ovules solitary in each cell, 

 g-oad disk, 1-seeded. Seed erect, exs 



couth AnT«>»;^ i"-... _. * ' \'fi 



Glabrous trees or shrubs. ^ Leaves alternate shining, 2-stipuIate.; Flowen 



yeuow, in axillary or terminal racemes or umbels. SejMxls 5, coloured, 



t?i K *' ^6ta& 5, imbricate, i>fc^v?; thick, lobed. Stamem 10, imeviei 



^ tne base of the disk, filaments very short ; anthers opening; by terminal 



^^^•; ; <5wr^ deeply 5-6-lobed, lobes 1-celled ; styles connate, stigma 



erect. Drupes 5 or fewer, seated on a 

 ft , — > x-o^cT^c^i. oecu. e reel, exalbuminous. — Distrib- Cbiefly tropical 

 coutii American ; a few are Asiatic and African j species about 80. 

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_ ^^ffustifolia, Vahl Synth, ii. 49 ; leaves coriaceous narrowly 



^te acute serrulate sessile, flowers in compound rather dense terminal 

 ^emes, drupes ovoid. DC. Prodr. i. 73G; W. d: A. Prodr. 152; Grah. 

 p; ^.0^^' PL 38 ; Thtvaites Emim. 71 ; Planch, in Hook LomL Journ. 

 r • VI, 3. G. zeylanica, DC. I.e. ; Wall Cat. 2802. G. malabarica, DC U. 

 vicuna zeylanica, Za?;^. Walkera serrata. WUU., DC. Prodr. x.TSl. Meesia 



♦ To ^^ r ^^'^'^- ^'^•^^. i. t. 70.— J5ii?m Fl. Zeyl. t. 56 ; Witede Uort. Mai. v. 

 ^ 48 and 52 (monstrous). - 



Sis^^*^^-* provinces of the Western Peninsula, from the Soutli Concan to Travancor; 



\'^^*^^^> ^^alker ; common in Ceylon. — Distrib Philippines. 

 ^ec]/°^^ ^^^^' ^^ ^^' ^^^^^' Z<;afC5 about 5 in. by 1 in., very sliining; stipules linear,- 

 oval "*^^'^' ^^^^^^ about J in. across, very numerous, on slender pedicels. Sepals 

 l^j^^'.^^'^^ceous. i^c^a/^ longer than sepals, deciduous. Anthers elongated, about as 

 stam ^^ ^^^'^' nearly sessile. Carpels obovate or reniform; stales 10, larger than 

 smn !!!^* ,P6rsistent in fruit, stigma quite entire. Drupes about the size of peas, 

 ^-^?th, shming, reticulated. . . . , . 



utr^' ?"»»atrana, Jac/t w< Mai: Misc. No. v. p. 29, ajuf in Book. Boi. 

 (>_,*"• '7 ; leaves narrowly ovate serrulate, panicle very diffuse. Wall 

 JmiJ I' ^' sumatreiisis. Flanch. in Hook. Ic. Fl. t. 712, and Hook. Lond. 

 ^^ri' ,.?^- ^'- 2. Ochna cmcea, Grif. Not. iv. 463. Eutheinis elegan-.V 

 jZf%P^' ^«^^- «* A'oxft. Fl. Ind. ed. Carey, ii. 305. E. 1 pulchernma, 

 /,««• tat. 2518. 



;■; WCAPORE, WaUich; Malacca, Maingay .—Distmii. Sumatra, Borneo. , . ' 



itcanV j?*^'>' *'l'*^'^ to (?. angustifoUa, there being scarcely any characters hj which 

 i ® distinguished, except the much mure diffuse character of the panicle. 



(^|-„^* Hookeri, Planch, in Hook. Lond. Journ. Bot. vi. 3; leaves 

 W,ltT"us narrowly ovate entire shortly petioled, flowers in terminal 



^^^ drupes ovoid. , - 



lS' f^'«^V Malacca, Maingay. ^^ -^- ■ ' , , ' ' '. , ' ' . , 



Pfojrf* "Wt4In. by l^in., narrowed into the short petiole ;pfipules deciduous. 



'■^Ped ^c'\ , — -^"^^ species is rat Her a uracKmrwyiv ^«. ".»^, ^^^ ^. ^. ^.^^.. 

 '%^"ni''^ ^y-''^^ Gomphia, if the two gencrallft^to be kept distinct, and ^roc/cen- 

 Book Tp m '^'" ''^ & considered as a section of Gomj>hia, as suggested by Ohver (m 

 • *c. Haat. xi. t. iOm.: £raehenridgla is not otherwise a Malayan genus. . ; 





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