296 APOCYNACEAE, [Ochrosia. 
3. OCHROSIA, Juss. 
Calyx 5-parted, the lobes glandless. Corolla salver-shaped, 5-lobed, 
the tube scaleless at the constricted throat, the lobes dextrorse. Stamens 5, 
inserted at the middle of the tube, included, the lanceolate anthers longer 
than the filaments, not appendiculate. Disk wanting. Carpels of ovary 
ee cohering at the apex. Stigma oblong, indistinctly bifid. Ovules 
2—6 in a carpel, in 2 rows on each side of the protruding ventral placenta. 
— 2 (or 1 by abortion), free to the base, diverging, rather dry, wit 
oody endocarp, dorsally compressed, furrowed on the ventral side. Seeds 
2, large and compressed, with thin testa, separated by the thin placenta. 
Albumen fleshy and scanty or wanting. Embryo straight, with plane 
otyledons and a superior radicle. — Milky shrubs or small trees with 
verticillate or opposite leaves. Flowers in cymes from the axils of the 
uppermost leaves, finally rameal through terminal innovations. 
s of about 12 species, extending from the Mascarene Islands, through Malaysi 
and tropical Tusteetia into Polynesia, only one other species spread over many 1 isla nds 
south of the equator (Tahiti, Viti, New Catenin and others). 
1. 0. Sandwicensis, ri y, in Proc. Am. Ac. V, 333. — A much branching 
glabrous shrub, 6—12 ft. high. Leaves 3 or 4 in a whorl, elongate- -oblong, 
aes . iis gee on pool of 1/,—1', shortly acuminate, chartaceous, 
g above, the close and faint nerves perpendicular to the rib and 
saretiel Sie rectangular areoles, and united by a distinct intramat 
ginal nerve. Cymes compound, 2—3' long, divaricately branching, the 
ar peduncle !/2—I1"/2’, the se pedicels 1—'/2“, the median flowers 
essile; the bracteoles short ovate to dentiform. Pubes 11/,—2”, with 
pw lanceolate teeth. Ja pollewiel, the tube 3—5”, hairy inside, 
dilated below the throat, the lobes linear-oblong, of the same length. 
Stamens inserted above we middle, with short hairy filaments and elongate 
acute included anthers. Stigma included, clavate, separable into 2 truncate 
lobules. Disk of 2 glands. Drupes dry, yellow, ellipsoid or ovoid-elongate, 
2! a 8“ broad and nearly as thick, pointed, with a thin layer of 
rose mesocarp on the ventral side, the endocarp woody and very 
thick, particularly on the sides and near the base (3), smooth and 
slightly convex on the outer face. Testa thin chartaceous. Albumen hard 
fleshy, not ruminate. Embryo axile, shorter than the albumen, the narrow 
lanceolate cotyledons about '/s of its width, the superior radicle as long 
as the cotyledons. — Wawra, in Flora, 1874, p, 366. — The axils 80 metimes 
hold one or several small, form, sessile or shortly stipitate glands. 
