Ochrosid.'] ApocyjiacetT. 129 



5-10 in., linear-lanceolate or slightly obovate, much tapering 

 to base, rather suddenly acuminate, subacute, glabrous, paler 

 beneath, rather thick, venation pellucid, lat. veins numerous, 

 horizontal, connected by an intramarginal one ; fl. large, on 

 stout ped.. panicles flat-topped, peduncles erect, very stout, 

 bracts large, oblong, acute, deciduous ; cal.-segm. |-|- in., 

 linear-oblong, acute, recurved, glabrous; cor.-tube | in., lower 

 third narrow, upper part dilated, throat nearly closed by 5 

 pubescent projecting wings, lobes i in., oval, obtuse, oblique; 

 fil. very short; ripe carp, nearly globose, 3-3^ in., smooth, 

 green. 



By water in the low country below 1000 ft., chiefly near the sea; very 

 common. Fl. all the year; white, throat yellow, sweet-scented. 



Tropical shores of Asia, Australia, and Pacific Is. 



Hermann confused this with Taberncemontana dichoto77ia, which 

 represents it in his Herbarium, whilst his drawings {^o and 71) are truly 

 Cerbera. The confusion was followed by Burman and Linnaeus. The 

 large fruits, fibrous from the rotting of the soft portion of the outer coat, 

 are very familiar objects floating on the water of the lagoons and back- 

 waters of the coast-regions. The whole plant is full of an acrid milky 

 juice ; the seeds are an irritant poison. 



7. OCKROSIA, Juss. 



Small tree, 1. whorled or alt., fl. small in terminal or lateral 

 panicles; cal. very small, no tube, sep. 5, oval, short, obtuse, 

 imbricate; cor.-tube short, cylindrical, naked within, lobes 

 longer than tube, narrow, overlapping to right; stam. 5, 

 minute, near summit of tube, anth. ovate, acute; disk o; carp, 

 distinct, ovules several, style slender, stigma small, truncate ; 

 ripe carp, usually both developed, pericarp very thick, spongy- 

 woody ; seed solitary, very much flattened, embryo with large 

 flat foliaceous cotyledons in scanty horny endosperm. — Sp. 

 12; I in i^/. B. Ind. 



O. borbonica, Gmel. Syst. Veg. i. 439 (1796). Mudu-kaduru, 



S. [Plate LX.] 



Cerbera parviflora, Forst., Moon Cat. 19. Thw. Enum. 192. C. P. 

 1833- 



Fl. B. Ind. iii. 638. 



A small tree, branchlets very stout, marked with whorls of 

 large leaf-scars, twigs glabrous, glaucous green; 1. irregularly 

 placed, usually in whorls of 3 or 4, often crowded at ends of 

 year's growth, rather large, 4-9 in., obovate-lanceolate, tapering 

 to base, rounded or faintly acuminate and obtuse at apex, 

 glabrous, shining, thick, paler beneath, venation pellucid, lat. 



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