Ophiorylon, _— PENTANDRIA MONOGYNIA, 693 
A pretty large tree, a native of salt swamps near r the shores 
, of various parts of India, yet it thrives well in the sweet and 
comparatively rich soil of the Botanic garden at Calcutta, 
where the trees are fully as large as the largest pear trees, 
and in flower and seed the whole year, 
The wood is remarkably soft, spongy and white, the bark 
on the young, generally trichotomous shoots polished, deep 
green. Leaves alternate, and crowded about the ends of the 
branchlets, short-petioled, lanceolar, firm and polished. Co- 
rymbs terminal, Flowers large, white and fragrant. Bractes 
and calycine segments linear and revolute, Coro/ infundi- 
buliform; segments of the border sub-triangularly falcate, in 
the bud imbricated. Stamina enclosed. Germ two-lobed, 
each lobe with a groove on the outside, and containing: two 
cells, with two ovula in each, attached to the partition, I ne- 
ver saw more than one of the lobes come to maturity, and that 
with rarely more than one seed, the other cell proving abor- 
tive. The style is slender, and the stigma in this species is 
remarkably large, conical, resting in a saucer-shaped recep-. — 
tacle, the circumference fluted with ten grooves, and the apex 
two-cleft. _Gertner’s description and figures of the mature 
seed vessel and seed, are so good as to render any a | 
Surther unnecessary. 
3. C. maculata. Willd. spec. ii, 1223. 
Leaves sub-verticelled, oblong, tapering most toward the 
base, smooth, veined. Drupes acuminate. : 
Ochrosia. Jussieu. gen. plant. 161. 
Found by Colonel Hardwicke indigenous on the Island of 
Mauritius, in seed in “September. From his specimens the 
above definition is taken. 
- OPHIOXYLON. Schreb. gen. N. 1578. 
" Cabjs five-toothed, Corol funnel-shaped. bon two- 
celled ; cells one-seeded ; attachment inferior, Berries twin, 
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