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Fain. 25. OCH&iCE JE. 



Ochna, L. 



Trees, shrubs or undershrubs with glabrous alt. simple 

 serrate stipulate leaves. Fls. large yellow, in racemes or 

 umbels. Sep. 5-7, persistent. Pet. 5-10, imbricate. Disc 

 thick. St. oc inserted on the disc, filaments persistent, with 

 deciduous anthers. Ovary deeply 5-10-lobed, lobes 1-ovuled, 

 entirely separated on the enlarged torus in fruit, ovule axile. 

 Styles connate. Fruit of distinct drupels. Seed erect, al- 

 buminous. 



1. 0. pumila, Earn. Champa Baha, S. 



A pretty undershrub with a long stout rootstock from 

 which it sends up annually shoots 8- 18'' high beariug umbele 

 of showy bright yellow flowers l£'' diam. Conspicuous in 

 fruit from the spreading deep red sepals. 



In open, especially srrassy places. Singbhum, not common ; Manbhum 

 Camp. ; Hazavibagh ; Ranchi ; Palamau. 



Fl. Feby.-June. Ft. March- July. 



L. broadly oblanceolate, 3-6" by 1-2", narrowed into tbe short petiole 

 finely sub-spinulosely serrate. Fls. on pedicels 1-2" long, peinncle axiLary 

 1-3". Petals H". Anthers opening by pores. Stigmas as many as ovary 

 lobes. Drupels usually 4-6, greenish. 



Campbell states that the root is used by the Santals as an antidote to 

 snakebite and medicinally for certain menstrual complaints, consump- 

 tion and asthma. 



2. 0- squarrosa, Roxb. Champa baha, S. 



A small glabrous tree or shrub with ell., ell-Ianceolate-or 

 oblanc. acute or somewhat acuminate leaves 3" by 1" to 7'' by 

 2|" with very numerous 6ne oblique sec. n. Handsome 

 bright-yellow fragrant fls. l\" diam. in short lateral sub- 

 corymbose rarely panicled racemes from the leaf scars. Sepals 

 J" erect after flowering bat again spreading and deep purple 

 in fruit. 



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