172 ILLUSTRATIONS OF INDIAN BOTANY. 
“ Sepals 5, persistent: estivation imbricated. Petals hypogynous, equal to or rarely 
more numerous than the sepals, deciduous, spreading: ewstivation imbricated. Stamens 4, 
alternate with the petals, or 10, or indefinite, inserted on the hypogynous disk : filaments per- 
sistent: anthers 2 celled, erect, opening by pores. Ovaries as many as petals, distinct or 
rarely combined, seated upon the enlarged tumid torus: ovuies solitary, erect: styles combined ~ 4 
into one, which springs directly from the torus: from between the bases of the ovaries, ~ 
Fruit (a sarcobase) of several indehiscent drupacious carpella, articulated with the torus, 
Seeds solitary. Albumen none. Embryo straight: radicle short, inferior: cotyledons thick, — 
Glabrous trees or shrubs. Leaves alternate, simple, stipulate. Pedicels joined in the middle.” a 
Arrinitizs. In Dr. Lindley’s recent arrangement, this order is placed at the head of his 
alliance Rutales of the group Gynobaseose, and well it might, asthe gynobasic structureis 
more distinctly marked in this than in any of the other member of the group. It is readily 
distinguished from all the other by the dehiscence of its anthers which open by pores at the — 
apex in place by a longitudinal slit, by its single style and erect solitary ovules, and fromall — 
those with divided styles, by the absence of pellucid dots in its leaves. In the characters of its 
fruit that excellent Botanist justly remarks it is “ to polypetalous plants what Lavéate and 
Boraginee are to Monopetalous.” 
Ser TR hile 
Grocrapnicat Distrisution, Tropical India, Africa,and America, are the native coun. — 
tries of the plants of this family, but they are by far the most numerous in America, scarcely — 
one-fifth of the whole number being found in India. Our flora only extends to 5 species of — 
about 50 described by authors: of these Roxburgh seems only to have been acquainted with — 
one, the plant here figured, and quotes as a synonym a figure of Burman’s (Thesaur. Zeylan. 
tab. 56) which belongs to the allied genus Gomphia. Wallich in his list enumerates 12 species 
for all India and the Islands. The number go far as I am aware has not been augmented, 
Sieg Sas Tapa o ee ort a a, ee ee 
Propertizs AND Usss. Gomphia angustifolia has we are told by Rheede, a bitter root — 
and leaves, and is employed in Malabar as a tonic. The flowers of Ochna squarrosa are 
fragrant, but no part of the plant appears to be applied to any useful purpose, ay 
Remarks on Genera anv Sprcizs, On this head thera is little scope for remark, One 
a L arked, differs somewhat from the character of the 
genus in having the styles deeply divided at the apex into as many parts as there are carpels ” 
to the ovary, each furnished with a capitate stigma: in place of having them united to the apex 
The anthers too are shorter than the filaments. These differences” 
S species being separated to form the type of genus. om 
EXPLANATION OF PLATE 69. 
I, Ochna squarrosa—natural size 
_ 2. A flower, the petals reme at ; 7. A seed approaching maturely cut transversel ws 
5s Stamens back and Aes ot “ show the stamens. _ Beit cut vertically, showing the position of 
m e nob; , ‘ . =" i 
dian Synobase and ovaries with the style and 3 A gu removed and deprived of the toe “in 
5. Ovaries cut vertically, showing thei h _ AV. seed lobe, but through an error of the at af 
to the base of the style, and thei ee enntne Inverted and showing the radicle superior in place 
& A detached posto their solitary erect ovales, inferior, 
3 LIl.—PITTOSPOREA, 
A small order of plants, widely distri . 
oe ee plants, widely distributed. } 
warmer portions of the temperate zones Satetie 
entire, petioled, exstipulate leaves 
e flowers. ‘i 
“Sepals 5, decid oes = 
_-hypog es roe erage oes: Partially cohering: @stivation imbricated. Petals 
- distinct, alternate with the petats, Ten’: tivation imbricated. Stamens hypogynous, 5 
_ about the same thickness, Ovary mies ee al aaenetes boob aelpage We orate 
GR Ot the ics: ina ‘ry, usually imperfectly 2.5 celled; the dissepiments 2 
oe ce axis, and therefore apparently 1-celled: style 1: wikia 2.5 tied, the lobed 
t principally confined to the tropics oF the 
on them, consisting of trees or shrubs wi? 
and axillary and terminal, solitary, aggrer 
