42 Simarubacee. [ Brucea. 
Kegalle distr. valley of the Maha-oya about Rambukkana (F. 
Lewis). 
1a. Brucea Mill. 
A’ shrub; leaves large, pinnate; fl. in very small cymes, 
collected into axillary panicles; calyx deeply 4-lobed, 
imbricate; disk 4-lobed; stamens 4, inserted below the disk; 
ovary 4-celled, with pendulous ovules in each ‘cel, seed 
exalbuminous.—Sp. 10. 
For B. sumatrana Roxb. read: 
B. AMARISSIMA Desv. ex Gomes in Mem. Acad. Sc. Lisb. n. s. IV, 
“p. 30 (1872). Gonus amarissima Lour. Fl. Cochinch. p. 658 (1790). 
Brucea sumatrana Roxb. Hort. Beng. p. 12 (1814). Tittakohomba, 
S. (F. Lewis). 
A shrub; densely yellow pubescent; leaves large, often 
more than 1 ft. long, pinnate; leaflets subopposite, ovate, 
44 in. long, 2 in. broad, acuminate, rounded at the base, 
coarsely crenate-dentate, shortly petioled; panicles axillary, 
pubescent, shorter than the leaves; fils. minute, usually 
hermaphrodite, pedicellate; calyx minute; petals linear- 
spathulate, larger than the calyx segments; stamens not 
exceeding the petals; filaments glabrous; drupes ¢ in., 
globose, glabrous, black. 
Low country; common in some places, but not native. Kandy; 
Kegalle distr.; Negombo. Fl. March. 
Native of the East Indies. 
For Ochna Wightiana Wall. var. Moont Trim. read: 
2a. O. Moonii Thw. Enum. p. 70 (1858). O. Wightiana var. 
Mooniti Trim. Fl. Ceyl. I, p. 234 (1893). Polythecium Moonii v. T. in 
Ann. Sc. Nat. Sér. 8, XVI, p. 369 (1902). 
Van Tieghem has described many new genera and species of Ochna- 
ceze such as Pleopetalum Leschenaultii, P. lucidum, Discladium 
squarrosum, D, lucidum, D. nitidum, D. Planchonii, Polythecium 
Thwaitesti, P. cordatum, P. rufescens, P. nitidum, Diporidium cor- 
datum, D. Wightianum, a Walkerii, and D. rufescens most of which 
are reducible to synonyms. 
Page 234.—For Gomphia Schreb. read: 
2. OURATEA Aubl. 
Ouratea zeylanica (Lamk.) Ochna zeylanica Lamk. Encycl. 
IV, p. 512 (1783). Meesia serrata Gaertn. Fruct. I, p. 344 (1788). 
Gomphia angustifolia Vahl Symb. II, p. 49 (1791). Ouratea angusti- 
folia Baill. ex. Laness. Pl. Util. Colon. Franc. p. 667 (1886). Cam- 
pylospermum angustifolium v. T. in Journ. de Bot. p. 197 (1902). 
C. Leschenaultii v. T. in Bull. Mus. Bot. p. 96 (1903). C. nodosum 
v. Tel. c. p. 77. C. Thwaitesti v..T. 1. c. p. 77., Ch nee 
l. c. p. 76. C. zeylanicum v. T. |. c. p. 77. Ramanchi, T. (Gamble). 
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