234 Ochnace<2. {GompMa, 



in fruit; pet. about equalling sep. ; anth. about as long as fil.; 

 ripe carp. 5-7, \ in., smooth, purplish-black. 



^'ar. /3. Moonii, Trim. O. sqiiarrosa. Moon Cat. 41 (non L.). O. 

 Moonii, Thw, Enum. 70. C. P. 1224, 2554. 



L. much larger, 3-6 in.; fl. larger, \ in., 6-12, in umbellate 

 panicles. 



Low country ; the type rather common in the dry region. Jaffna ; 

 Mannar ; Trincomalie ; Puttalam ; Haragama. Van j8. in the moist 

 region up to 2000 ft.; common. Fl. Nov.-Feb. ; bright yellow, sep. 

 crimson in fruit. 



Also in Travancore. 



Wood light, soft, pale yellow. 



C. P. 2554 connects var. /3. with the type, otherwise O. Moonii seems 

 worthy of specific rank, and is our commonest Oclina. 



3. O. rufescens, Thw. Enum. 70 (1858). 



c. P. 3455. 



Fl. B. Ind. i. 523 (under 0. sqiiarrosa). 



A small tree or shrub, young parts glabrous ; 1. 4-6 in.,, 

 very shortly stalked, tapering to base, acuminate, very acute, 

 oblong-lanceolate, finely but sharply spinous-serrate, glabrous, 

 veiny, stip. subulate, longer than petiole; fl. small, -^- in., 6-12 

 together in short corymbose racemes, ped. f-i in,, slender, 

 jointed near the base; sep. fin., oblong, obtuse; pet. oblong, 

 nearly equalling sep. ; ripe carp. j-'^. 



Moist low country ; very rare. I have only seen the C. P. specimens 

 which were collected on Nillowe Kande, Hiniduma Pattu, in 1855, by 

 Thwaites. Fl. May ; yellow. 



Endemic. 



This is placed as a synonym under 0. sqiiarrosa in Fl. Brit. Ind., 

 but it is much nearer to O. Moonii^ from which it differs in its much 

 smaller flowers, more distinctly racemose. 



O. nitida, Thuiib., collected by Thunberg in Ceylon {Florula), may 

 possibly be this species (see Planch, in Hook. Lond. Journ. Bot. v. 650). 

 It is described and figured from the specimen in Herb. Delessert by De 

 Candolle in Ann. Mus. xvii. 412, t. 12. 



2. GOMPHZA, Sc/ireb. 



Small trees; fl. in large terminal panicles; sep. 5, imbricate, 

 persistent; pet. 5, imbricate; stam. 10, anth. dehiscent by 

 terminal pores; ov. of 5 distinct carp., each i-celled ; styles 

 basal, connate ; ripe carp, quite distinct, on greatly enlarged 

 gynophore, i -seeded; seed without endosperm. — Sp. 80; 3 in 

 FL B. Ind. 



