5O The Flowering Plants of Western India. 



1. AILANTHUS. 



A. excelsa. A fine tree with very large pinnate leaves 

 collected at the end of the branches, leaflets very large, unequal 

 at the base, deeply and irregularly toothed, flowers yellowish in 

 large cross panicles, carpels podlike winged, swollen in the 

 middle, crowned with the long curled styles. Maruk, 

 Adusa. 



Deccan and Guzerat. The leaves are very strong smelling. 



2. BALANITES. 



B. Roxburgldi. A small thorny tree with whitish bark, leaf- 

 lets oval entire, flowers greenish in small cymes, disk notched 

 round the edge, fruit size of an egg, 5-lobed, smooth, ffingen, 

 Tiingor, penda. 



Deccan and Guzerat, drier parts of India (#.). Omitted by D. ; but 

 it is a common tree in some parts. 



Samadera, disk large, conical, ovary deeply lobed, drupe winged. 

 *8. Indica, a small tree with large lanceolate fleshy leaves, flowers 

 small white in long dense umbels, filaments very long, drupe oval. 

 Not in D. S. Konkan (.). 



Quassia amara, " which occupies the first rank among bitter medi- 

 cines," belongs to this order. 



ORDER 29. OCHNACEJE. 



Smooth trees or shrubs with alternate simple leaves with 

 stipules, and conspicuous flowers, sepals 4 or 5, petals 4, 5, or 10, 

 disk enlarged after flowering, stamens inserted on it, fruit fleshy. 



OCHNA. Flowers yellow, sepals coloured persistent, petals 

 deciduous, stamens numerous, disk and ovary lobed, fruit of 3 to 

 10 drupes seated on the enlarged disk. 



O. pumila (0. nana, D.). A small straggling shrub with 

 narrow lanceolate leaves slightly serrated : flowers rather large in 

 small clusters from the branches ; fruit enclosed in the calyx, 

 carpels only slightly attached to the enlarged disk. 



This is, in this Presidency, found only in the S. Konkan, and not 

 common there, I think. It is a remarkable-looking plant, the anthers 

 being 2 or 3 times as long as the filaments, and the generic arrange- 

 ment of the carpels being unique, as far as I know. The same 

 peculiarities exist in O. squarrosa, a garden tree with us, but wild in 

 gome parts of India, with oblong shining leaves, and yellow flowers. 

 G. had Gomphia angustifolia, & shrub with flowers and leaves agreeing 

 in description with 0. squarrosa, and about 5 pea-like carpels seated 

 on a broad disk : S. Konkan, but D. could never hear of it. 



