Ochna.] xxxv. OCHNACE^. (Alfred W. Bennett.) 525 



5. (?) O. brevipes, Planch, in Hook. Lond. Jour. Bot. v. 652 ; flowers 

 nearly sessile in compound fascicles, anthers somewhat longer than the 

 filaments, styles undivided. 



PEGU. 



Leaves unknown, deciduous. Flowers ^-f in. across. Sepals elliptical. Petals 5, 

 obovate, suddenly narrowed into a claw. Styles about as long as stamens. 



2. GOHXPHXA, Schreb. 



Glabrous trees or shrubs. Leaves alternate shining, 2-stipulate. Flowers 

 yellow, in axillary or terminal racemes or umbels. Sepals 5, coloured, 

 persistent. Petals 5, imbricate. Disk thick, lobed. Stamens 10, inserted 

 at the base of the disk, filaments very short ; anthers opening by terminal 

 pores. Ovary deeply 5-6-lobed, lobes 1-celled ; styles connate, stigma 

 simple ; ovules solitary in each cell, erect. Drupes 5 or fewer, seated on a 

 broad disk, 1 -seeded. Seed erect, exalbuminous. DISTRIB. Chiefly tropical 

 South American ; a few are Asiatic and African ; species about 80. 



1. G-. ang-ustifolia, Vahl Symb. ii. 49 ; leaves coriaceous narrowly 

 ovate acute serrulate sessile, flowers in compound rather dense terminal 

 racemes, drupes ovoid. DC. Prodr. i. 736; W. & A. Prodr. 152; Grah. 

 Cat. Bomb. PI. 38 ; Thwaites Enum. 71 ; Planch, in Hook. Lond. Journ. 

 Bot. vi. 3. G. zeylanica, DC. I.e. ; Wall. Cat. 2802. G. malabarica, DC. I.e. 

 Ochna zeylanica, Lam. Walkera serrata, Willd., DC. Prodr. i. 737. Meesia 

 serrata, Goertn. Fruct. i. t. !Q.Burm. Fl. Zeyl. t. 56 ; Hheede Hort. Mai. v. 

 t. 48 and 52 (monstrous). 



Southern provinces of tbe WESTERN PENINSULA, from the South Concan to Travancor ; 

 SINGAPORE, Walker; common in CEYLON. DISTRIB Philippines. 



A small tree, 30 ft. high. Leaves about 5 in. by 1 in., very shining; stipules linear, 

 deciduous. Flowers about J in. across, very numerous, on slender pedicels. Sepals 

 oval, coriaceous. Petals longer than sepals, deciduous. Anthers elongated, about as 

 long as petals, nearly sessile. Carpels obovate or reniform ; styles 10, larger than 

 stamens, persistent in fruit, stigma quite entire. Drupes about the size of peas, 

 smooth, shining, reticulated. 



2. Cr. sumatrana, Jack in Mai Misc. No. v. p- 29, and in Hook. Bot. 



Misc. ii. 77 ; leaves narrowly ovate serrulate, panicle very diffuse. Wall. 

 Cat. 2803. G. sumatrensis. Planch, in Hook. Ic. PL t. 712, and Hook. Lond. 

 Journ. Bot. vi. 2. Ochna crocea, Griff. Not. iv. 463. Euthemis elegan- 

 tissima (?), Wall, in jKoxb. Fl. Ind. ed. Carey, ii. 305. E. 1 pulcherrima, 

 Wall. Cat. 2518. 



SINGAPORE, Wallich; MALACCA, Maingay. DISTRIB. Sumatra, Borneo. 



Very closely allied to G. angustifolia, there being scarcely any characters by which 

 it can be distinguished, except the much more diffuse character of the panicle. 



3. Cr. Hookeri, Planch, in Hook. Lond. Journ. Bot. vi. 3; leaves 

 coriaceous narrowly ovate entire shortly petioled, flowers in terminal 

 umbels, drupes ovoid. 



PENANG, Phillips; MALACGA, Maingay. 



Leaves about 4 in. by 1^ in., narrowed into the short petiole; stipules deciduous. 

 Flowers rather smaller than in G. angustifolia, on long slender pedicels, 10-20 in an 

 umbel. Sepals ovate, coriaceous. Styles quite connate ; stigma entire. Drupe smooth, 

 not reticulated. This species is rather a Brackenridgia (A. Gray, Bot. U. S. Expl. 

 Exped. 361) than a Gomplda, if the two genera are to be kept distinct, and Bracken- 

 ridgia not rather to be considered as a section of Gomphia, as suggested by Oliver (in 

 Hook. Ic. Plant, xi. t. 1096). Brachenridgia is not otherwise a Malayan genus. 



