'Ochna?[ OcJifiace^. 233 



each I -celled, with a solitary ovule; styles basal, connate; 

 ripe carp, quite distinct on the enlarged gynophore, fleshy, 

 i-seeded; seed with endosperm. — Sp. 25; 5 in Fl. B. Ind. 



Fl. large, 2 in . . i. O. SQUARROSA. 



Fl. small, less than | in. 



Fl. few, or in umbellate panicles ; ped. jointed \-\ 



from base 2. O. Wightiana. 



Fl. in corymbose racemes ; ped. jointed near base 3. O. rufescens. 



1. O. squarrosa, L. Sp. PI. ed. 2, 731 (in part) (1762). Mal-k^ra, 

 S. Chilanti, T. 



Herm. Mus. 9. Fl. Zeyl. n. 209. O. lucida. Lam. Diet. iv. 510. 

 Thw. Enum. 70. C. P. 1223. 



Fl. B. Ind. i. 523. Wight, 111. t. '69. 



A small tree, young parts glabrous, buds closely covered 

 with numerous acute leaf-scales ; 1. 2-5 in., oval or lanceolate, 

 acute at both ends, finely crenate-serrate, the teeth minutely 

 spinous, glabrous on both sides, veiny, petiole \ in., stip. 

 lanceolate-subulate, deciduous ; fl, large, 2-2| in., in short 

 umbellate panicles, ped. i-iMn., slender, glabrous, drooping, 

 jointed near base ; sep. |-f in., broadly oval, obtuse, glabrous, 

 many-veined ; pet. a little longer than sep. ; anth. long, linear, 

 deciduous, fil. much shorter, persistent ; styles completely 

 combined, persistent, stigma lobed ; ripe carp, 3-6, surrounded 

 by the somewhat enlarged sep., ovoid, sessile, shining, black. 



Var. /3. cordata, Thw. Enum. 409. C. P. 1222. 



L. smaller, 1-2 in., cordate at base, rounded at apex, more 

 sharply serrate. 



Dry country ; rather rare. Jaffna ; Trincomalie ; Batticaloa ; var. /3. 

 Matale East ; Puttalam. Fl. June ; yellow, fragrant. 



Also in the Indian and Malayan Peninsulas. 



Linnaeus quotes for this Burman's t. 56, which is clearly Goinphia 

 angustifolia., but all the specimens in Herb. Herm. seem O. squarrosa. 



I have never seen more than 5 petals in Ceylon specimens. 



2. O Wig-htiana, Wall. Cat. n. 2808 (1828). Bo-k^ra, S. 

 ICatkarai, T. 



O. Walkerii, Planch, in Hook. Lond. Journ. Bot. v. 653. Thw. 

 Enum. 70. C. P. 1221. 



Fl. B. Ind. i. 524. Wight, Ic. t. 223 (.?). 



A small tree or shrub, much branched, young parts gla- 

 brous; 1. i|-2 in., very shortly stalked, lanceolate or rhomboid- 

 lanceolate, sub-obtuse at base, acute, finely serrate, paler 

 beneath, veiny ; fl. under | in., solitary or 2 or 3 together, 

 ped. jointed \-\ from base; sep. oblong-oval, much enlarged 



