Bal&nites.\ xxxiv. SIMARUBEJS. (Alfred W. Bennett.) 523 



A small tree, 20 ft. high, with glabrous or puberulous branches ending in very strong 

 sharp ascending spines. Leaves of two elliptical or obovate puberulous entire coriaceous 

 leaflets. Cymes 4-10-flowered. /Sepals and petals ovate, velvety-pubescent. Filaments 

 filiform-subulate. Fruit large, woody, angular, more than an inch long. Very nearly 

 allied to, and perhaps only a variety of, the B. osgyptiaca of northern and tropical 

 Africa. 



ORDER XXXV. OCHNACEJE. (By Alfred W. Bennett, F.L.S.) 



Glabrous trees or shrubs, with watery juice. Leaves alternate, simple, 

 (very rarely pinnate) coriaceous ; stipules 2. Inflorescence panicled or occa- 

 sionally umbellate (rarely flowers solitary), bracteate. Flowers hermaphro- 

 dite, conspicuous. Sepals 4-5, free, imbricate, persistent. Petals^ 5, rarely 

 4 or 10, free, hypogynous, imbricate, longer than the sepals, deciduous. 

 Disk enlarged after flowering, occasionally 0. Stamens 4, 5, 8, 10, or inde- 

 finite, inserted on the disk ; filaments persistent ; anthers basifixed, some- 

 times deciduous, dehiscing longitudinally, or often opening by terminal 

 pores. Ovary short, 2-celled or elongate and 1-10-celled ; placenta axile or 

 parietal; style simple, subulate, acute, rarely divided at the extremity, 

 stigmas simple, terminal ; ovules 1-2 in each cell or indefinite, ascending 

 or rarely pendulous, raphe ventral, micropyle superior. Fruit indehiscent, 

 drupaceous or baccate, compound, each drupe or pyrene 1-4-seeded ; or 

 capsular and 1-5-celled with septicidal dehiscence. Seeds solitary, few, or 

 numerous ; albumen fleshy or ; embryo straight or rarely ^ curved, 

 radicle superior or inferior. DISTEIB. Tropical regions of both hemispheres, 

 chiefly American ; species about 150. 



TRIBE I. Ochnese. Ovary 2-10-celled ; ovules solitary in each cell. 

 Seeds exalbuminous. 



Stamens GO ; flowers paniculate 1. OCHNA. 



Stamens 10; flowers paniculate or umbellate 2. GOMPHIA. 



Sepals, petals, and stamens 4 3. TETRAMERISTA. 



TRIBE II. Euthemideae. Ovary semi-5-celled ; ovules 2 in each cell. 



Seeds albuminous. 



Stamens 5, with alternate staminodes 4. EUTHEMIS. 



1. QCHNA, Linn. 



Glabrous trees or shrubs. Leaves alternate, simple, serrate, rarely entire, 

 2-stipulate. Flowers large, yellow, in bracteate* panicles or umbels. 

 Sepals 5, coloured, persistent. Petals 5-10, deciduous. Disk thick, lobed. 

 Stamens oo , shorter than the petals, filaments short or elongated ; anthers 

 opening longitudinally, deciduous. Ovary deeply 3-10-lobed, lobes 

 1 -celled ; styles entirely connate or distinct at the apex : ovules solitary 

 in each cell, axile. Fruit of 3-10 drupes seated on the broad disk. Seed 

 erect, albuminous. DISTRIB. Tropical Asia and Africa ; species about 25. 



1. O. squarrosa, Linn. ; DC. Prodr. i. 735 ; leaves from narrowly 

 oblong to oblong-ovate or obovate, acute obtuse or mucronate, finely serrate, 

 flowers fragrant, petals 7-12 (rarely 5), anthers very long deciduous, with 

 very short persistent filaments, styles united to the apex. Eoxb. Fl. 

 Ind. ii. 643 ; Cor. PL i. t. 89 ; Wight III i. t. 69 ; Grah. Cat. Bomb. PL 37 ; 

 Dak. & Gibs. Bomb. Fl. Suppl 17. O. lucida, Lamk. Ill, t. 472, f. i. ; DC. 

 I.e. ; Planck, in Hook. Journ. Bot, v. 649 ; Griff. Not. iv. 464, t. 605, f. vi. 

 O. nitida, Thunb. ; DC. I.e. ; Planch. I.e. 650 (not of Wall.}. O. rufescens (?) 

 Thunb. I.e. ; Thw. jEnum. 70. O. obtusata, DC. I.e. 735 ; Wall. Cat. 2805. 



