Ochna.] 25. OCHNACEJS. [AiLA*THr/3. 



Bajmehal hills, in ravines and on rocky slopes, from Barhait north- 

 wards. 



Fl. May. Fr. r.'«. Sub-deciduous Fehy. -March. 



Buds pernlate. L. often clustered, finely spinulose-serrate_ but points 

 deciduous and then crenulate or serrulate, base acute. 

 Pedicels 1-lf articulate. 



Fam. 26. SIMA5UJB4CE/E. 

 Aiiantlms, Desf. 



Large trees with bitter bark, large, alt., exsiipulate 

 pinnate leaves which continne to grow for a considerable 

 time at the apex and are approximated at the ends of the 

 branchlets. Fls. small polygamous, in axillary panicles. 

 Calyx 5-6-lobed, lobes imbricate. Petals 5-6 spreading, in- 

 duplicate valvate. Disc 10-lobed. St. in male fl. 10, in 

 hercn. fi. sometimes only 2-3. Carpels 5-6 nearly free entirely 

 free in frnit, 1-ovuled, 1 or more developing into a large, 

 linear-oblong samara with the seed in the centre. 



1. A. excelsa, Roxb. Pirinim, Ghorkaram (in Palaman 

 f. Hanson). Ghorkaranj, Kharw. 



A tree with light- coloured bark, stout hoary tomentos© 

 branchlets, large pinnate leaves with 10-18 pairs of very 

 coarsely toothed leaflets and large panicles of small flowers. 



Along the Brahmini River in Gangpnr/* Satbama Fort, Wood. 

 Palamau, frequent. Hazaribagh (Chorparan jungles). 



Fls. Jany. -March. Fr. May. Sub-deciduo is May. Benews leaves 

 May-June. (According to Brandis, it . is leafless in the eatly part of the 

 cold season, but I have found it in full leaf in November and January.) 



Smell foetid. Twig:* |-1 7 diam. with large leaf scars. L. 2-3 ft. long 

 with hoary tomentose rachis Lflts. opp. or alt , 3H> 7 by 2-3'', densely 

 pubescent beneath and pubescent above when young, acute or acuminate 

 with a very oblique base, sec. nerves about 12-20 pair Petiolule slender 

 1-2". Two hairy glands occur near the base of the petiole and sometimes 

 also in the place of the lower leaflets. Panicles u;-20''. Fls. yellowish. 

 Samaras usually solitary, lf-a" by \'', strongly veined with a twisted base . 



The bark, ground, is used as a horse medicine " when horses fall 

 down." 



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