196 XXXIV. OCHNACEiE, 



after flowering, sometimes 0. Stamens inserted at the base of or on 

 the disk, 4, 5, 8, 10 or indefinite ; filaments usually short, persistent ; 

 antliers linear, dehiscing longitudinally or by terminal pores. Ovary 

 short and 2-10-lobed, or terete, elongate and l-lO-celled ; placentas 

 axile or parietal; OA'ules 1-2 in each cell or indefinite, ascending or 

 rarely pendulous ; raphe ventral ; micropyle superior ; style simple, 

 subulate, acute, straight or incurved ; stigma simple, terminal. Fruit 

 indehiscent, drupaceous or baccate, compound, each drupe or pyrene 

 1-4-seeded, or capsular and 1-o-celled with septicidal dehiscence. — 

 DiSTRiB, Tropical regions of the world, very many in America ; genera 

 12 ; species about 150. 



Stamens indefinite 1. Ociina. 



Stamens 10 2. Gompiua. 



1. OCHNA, Linn. 



Glabrous trees or shrubs. Leaves alternate, usually serrate, shining, 

 many-nerved ; stipules 2. Flowers yellow, in panicles or umbels, 

 springing from a scaly bud beneath the last year's leaves, bracteate. 

 kSe])als 5, imbricate, persistent, colored. Petals 5-12, deciduous, 

 imbricate. Disk thick, lohed. Stamens indpfinite, inserted at the 

 base of the disk, shorter than the petals ; anthers dehiscing longitudi- 

 nally, deciduous. Ovary 1-celled, deeply 3-10-lobed ; lobes obtuse; 

 ovule solitary in each cell, axile; styles connate or sometimes free at 

 the aj)ex ; stigmas simple or capitate. Drupes 3-10, seated on the 

 enlarged disk. Seed erect, oblong ; testa membranous ; cotyledons 

 thick, plano-convex ; radicle minute. — Distrib. Tropical Asia and 

 Africa ; species 25. 



A small tree ; flowers in sliort racemes 1. 0. squarro.<<a. 



A low undershrub ; flowers in long-peduncled umbels 2. O.pumila. 



1. Ochna squarrosa, Linn. Sjt. PI ed. 2 (1762) p. 731. A shrub 

 or small tree. Leaves 2-h in. long, oblong-lanceolate, elliptic or obovate, 

 usually acute, finely serrulate, quite glabi-ous, base narrowed into a short 

 petiole ; stipules lanceolate, ^-J in. long. Flox^ers fragrant, in umbel- 

 late ])anicles on the old wood, or sometimes on short leafless branchlets ; 

 pedicels jointed. Sepals coriaceous, g-| in. long, ellijitic-oblong, with 

 close parallel veins. Petals 5-12, a little longer than the sepals. 

 Stamens indefinite, deciduous ; filaments very short ; anthers long, 

 linear. Styles completely combined, longer than the stamens. Fruit 

 of 3-6 drupes, 5 in. long, oblong-ovoid, sessile, black, surrounded by the 

 persistent calvx. Fl. B. L v. 1, p. 523; Grab. Cat. p. 37 ; Dalz. & 

 Gibs. Suppl. p. 17: Trim. Fl. Cevl. v. 1, p. 2.33; Talb. Trees, Bomb, 

 p. 36 ; Woodr. in Journ. ]5omb. Nat. v. 11 (1897) p. 268; Watt, Diet. 

 Econ. Prod. v. 5, p. 439. — Flowers: Feb.-April. Vern. Kanak- 



KoNKAN : Law I; S. Konkan, on liills near tlio sea, Talhof ; Parel road, Bombay, 

 planted, (iraham. DKcfAN: gardens about Poona, Cooke], Woodrowl S. M. Covn- 

 iHv: Castlerock, Woodrow. Kanaka: Dahelll, Sforkii]; near Karwar, Talbot, 116!; 

 Cliandawar, liiichie, KIGT! — DisTiiin. India (E. & W. Peninsulas, Birina); Ceylon. 



2. Ochna pumila, Bvch.-lfdm. ex D. Don, Prodr. Fl. iVfj?. (1825) 

 p. 224. A low undershrub about 2 ft. high. Leaves 4-6 J by 1^-2 in., 

 oblanceolate, spinous-serrate, glabrous, base acute ; petioles short ; 



