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longifolia (I. longifolia Wright & Arn. Prodr., 136), which is 

 sporadic all over India from the Himalayas to Travancore, Burma, 

 the Malayan Islands and China, from which it appears to differ 

 in the soft friable texture of the sepals in a dried state which 

 rendered their analysis when moistened very troublesome. This 

 is a character which I have not met with in any other of the 

 numerous form of /. Balsamina which I have examined. Var. 

 longifolia is not, to my knowledge, a garden plant anywhere. 



OCHNACE^. 



Ochna Fryeri HemsL, sp. n. ; species ab 0. mauritiani recedit 

 foliis majoribus, Horibus majoribus, filamentis rationo dimidio 

 brevioribus, ovario 10-loculare et stylis fere ad apicem coalitis. 



Arbor parva (Dupont) undique glabra, ramulis floriferis rigidis, 

 per anthesin aphyUis, cortice ruguso cinereo. Folia pauca, ad 

 apices ramulorum conferta, decidua, alterna, exstipulata, breviter 

 petiolata, tenuia, oblongo-lanceolata, 6-12 cm. longa, apice rotun- 

 data, simul apiculata, basi subcuneata, nitida, margine obscure 

 crenulata, crenulis apiculato-glandulosis ; venae ultimse tenuissimse, 

 creberrime reticulatae ; petiolus 4-5 mm. longus. Flores lutei, 

 pentameri, circiter 1*5 cm. diametro, in apicibus ramulorum 

 brevium lateralium et terminalium dense corymbosi, corymbis 

 multifloris 4-6 cm. diametro. Ferulae concavae, cito deciduae. 

 Bracteae coloratae, parvae, angustae, tenuissimae, etiam cito deciduae. 

 Pedicelli graciles, saepius 2-2-5 cm. longi, infra medium articulati. 

 Sepala colorata, persistentia, fructifera leviter aucta, indurata, 

 orbiculari-elliptica, concava, inaequalia, maxima 1 cm. lata. Petala 

 orbicularia, 7-10 mm. lata, distincte unguiculata. Stamina circiter 

 40 ; filamenta primum 2-2-5 mm., persistentia et demum usque ad 

 4-5 mm. longa, rigida ; antherae basifixae, 3-4 mm. longae, cito 

 deciduae. Ovarium saepius 10-lobum ; styli stamina superantes, 

 ad apicem connati. Drupae compresso-ellipsoideae, bene evolutae 

 non vis^e.— 0. ciliata Baker in Kew Bull., 1894, 147, vix Lam. 



Aldabra : Abbott ; Dupont, 1 ; Fryer, 32. 



0. Fryeri differs from 0. ciliata Lam. as represented in the 

 Kew Herbarium by a specimen collected by Boivin in Madagascar, 

 by its much larger leaves and more copious inflorescence. The 

 Madagascar plant has narrow oblong-lanceolate leaves from 

 4-8 cm. long, with very obscure marginal bristles. 



Meliace^. 

 Carapa obovata B1. C. moluccensis Baker, Flora, 46, in nota, 

 non Lam. 



Praslin : St. Anne's Bay, Home, 441. 

 Carapa moluccensis Lam. Trichilia ? Baker, Flora, 47. 

 Mah6 : On the borders of a swamp near the sea, north of Port 

 Victoria, Home, 405. 



Icacinace^. 



Grisollea Thomassetii Hemsl. in Hook. Ic. PI. xxviii, t. 

 2784 (1905). 



