Ochna. | OCHNACE& (Harv.) 449° 
more in a short, imperfect racemule ; bracts scale-like, caducous. Calyx enlarging 
after the petals fall, spreading. Drupes 1-2 or more, dark, as large as peas, widely 
separated on the hemispherical torus, Style splitting in fruit.—Var. 8. appears to 
be merely a luxuriant form, with larger leaves and more abundant flowers ; through 
_ Hochstetter’s O. serrulata it is eonnected with the ordinary state. Its characters 
probably depend on local influences. 
' 2. 0. arborea (Burch. Cat. No. 4012); leaves elliptical or ovate- 
oblong, obtuse or sub-acute, sub-entire or obscurely dentieulate ; pedicels 
subternate or in short, 3-4 flowered racemules; sepals ovate-elliptical, 
coneave, enlarged and red-brown in fruit; anthers longer than the fila- 
ments, opening by small, terminal pores; style sub-entire. DC. Prod. 1. 
P. 730. Diporidium arboreum, Wendl. EB. & Z.!-925. D. delagoense, 
E. & Z.! 926. 
Has. Woods in Uitenhage and Albany, Caffraria, and Port Natal, frequent. 
Delagoa Bay, Forbes! (Herb. Hook., T.C.D., Sond.) 
A tree, 20-40 feet high. Twigs with greyish bark, often cracked or pustulated. 
Petioles 1 line long or less. Leaves 1-24 inches long, 3-1 inch wide, rigid, reticu- 
ted with more or less prominent veinlets, either quite entire: or with very shallow 
or obsolete serratures, variable in shape. Pedicels either axillary or ending short 
branchlets.—Known from the last by its arborescent habit, and larger and nearly 
entire and paler leaves. Shoots from the root occasionally produce flowers, and on 
one af these Ecklon and Zeyher found their 0. Delagoense. 
3. 0. pulchra (Hook! Ic. Pl. t- 588); leaves elliptic-oblong, sub- 
acute at each end, minutely spinuloso-ciliate, at length quite entire; ra- 
comes many-flowered, pendulous, longer than the leaves; sepals 5-6, ellipti- 
cal-obovate, enlarged and red-orange in fruit; anthers shorter than the 
ents, opening by terminal pores; style deeply 5-6 cleft. Pl. in Lond. 
Journ. 5. p. 655. 
ne” -Macallisherg, Burke! Kalighari Desert, Lake Ngami, J. M‘Cabe. (Herb. — 
ook., T.C.D, | i ae 
_ A shrub, nie feet high. Twigs fulvous, somewhat angular, densely leafy. Pe- 
tioles 2-3 lines long. Leaves 24-3 inches long, 1-14 ‘inch wide, pale — dry, 
finely reticulated with slender veins, obtuse or acute, tapering at base poor a 
tiole; the margin, in the young leaf, set with very slender, appressed, minute, su 
bulate teeth, afterwards deciduous, leaving a perfectly entire margin. Racemes ps i 
inches long, 12-14 flowered. A very beautiful shrub. According to Mr. b 
Bushmen grease their heads with an oil expressed from the seeds. 
SUB-CLASS IL. a 
CALYCIFLORZ. 
Calyx and corolla generally present. Calyx gamosepalous. Petals 
Separate, or united itis seeeoppalui corolla, either perigynous or epi- 
8ynous, Stamens inserted on the calyx (perigynous), or on a perigy nan 
°r epigynous corolla. Ovary either free, or more or less adnate to the 
calyx-ty}y, 
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