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Radices carnosi, ramosi. Caudezx brevis, carnosus, caules 
plures emittens; caules decumbentes, ramosi, versus apicem 
ascendentes, intense rubri, pilis brevissimis deflexis instructi, parte 
horizontali ramulos simplices steriles vel fertiles emittente; 
internodia 1-3 em. longa. Folia basi 1-15 mm. connata, 
primum ascendentia, demum patentia vel patula, lineari- 
lanceolata, obtusiuscula, in basin sensim angustata, 1-17 cm. 
longa, 1°5-2°5 mm. lata, usque medium vel altius: ciliata, apice 
leviter recurva, supra concava, glabra, nervo medio impresso, 
subtus convexa nervo medio prominente piloso saepius rubro. 
Flores solitarii, terminales vel in cymis bDifloris. Pedunculs 
2-25 em. longi, ut superiores caulium partes et pilis brevissimis 
acutis deflexis et aliis longioribus glanduloso-capitatis patulis 
muniti. Sepala concava, plus minusve naviformia, ambitu 
oblongo-lanceolata, obtusa, 0°8-1 cm. longa, explanata 
25-3°5 mm. lata, exteriora glanduloso-ciliata, interiora latissime 
hyalino-marginata, omnia nervo medio extra glanduloso-piloso. 
Petala erecto-ascendentia, pallide rosea, oblanceolata, apice 
1-15 mm. bifida, sinu angustissimo, lobulis irregulariter 2-3- 
dentatis, 1-6-1-7 cm. longa, 4-5 mm. lata, flabellatim polynervia. 
Stamina 10; filamenta subulata, glabra, purpurascentia, ante- 
sepala 8 mm. longa, basi bulboso-incrassata, antepetala 7 mm 
longa; antherae 1-75 mm longae. varium oblongum, com- 
pressum, 3-5 mm. longum, 2 mm. latum; styli 2, 4-4-5 mm. longi; 
‘ovula circiter 20, utrinsecus biseriata. 
Cuina. Forrest 13,225. Described from a plant cultivated in 
the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew 
[Ochnaceae]; O. squarrosae, 
Linn., affinis, foliis majoribus oblongis vel obovato-oblongis 
guendi, omnes 
mata connexl; 
ongus. Flores in racemis vel 
graciles, 4-5 cm 
calyce paullo lo 
Inpra. Northern Circars in Ganjam and Godavari, Gamble; 
Decean in Kurnool, Cudd 
apah and North Arcot, Beddome; 
Mysore, Cameron. 
864. 
ramulis novellis non villosis, foliis brevit 
xe corymbosis, et fructibus minoribus di ert 
Frutex subscandens, ramosus, 2-3 
brunneo-purpurei, aculeati, aculeis | 
