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1. Ochna, Linn. 

 Trees or shrubs, glabrous. Leaves alternate, simple, usually 



serrate or crenate, shining, many-nerved; stipules 2. P 

 conspicuous, yellow, bracteate, in racemes panicles or umbels, 

 from the ends of short woody branches. Sepals 5 imbricate, 

 persistent, coloured. Petals f>-10, imbricate, deciduous. Disk 

 thick, lobed. Stamens numerous, shorter than the petals, inserted 

 at the base of the disk ; filaments persistent ; anthers linear, 

 dehiscing longitudinally, deciduous. Ovary deeply 3-10-lobed, 

 lobes 1-celled ; styles basal, connate or sometimes free at the 

 apex ; stigmas simple or capitate ; ovule 1 in each cell, axile. 

 Fruit of 3-10 distinct drupes seated on the enlarged disk. Seed 

 erect, oblong ; testa membranous ; albumen ; cotyledons 

 thick, plano-convex ; radicle minute. 



Flowers large : 



Flowers in axillary or lateral racemes ; trees : 

 Leaves closely nerved, serrate or shortly crenate : 



Leaves membranous or chartaceous, green, lanceolate or obovate, 

 acute at apex, shortly petioled, distant on the branchlets not 

 tufted; stigmas simple, minute ........................... 1. squarrosta. 



Leaves coriaceous, glaucous, obovate, obtflse at apex, cordate 

 at base, nearly or quite sessile ; tufted at the ends of the 

 branchlets; stigmas in a lobed head ..................... 2. Gamblei. 



Leaves coarsely and irregularly nerved, broadly crenate, oblong or 

 obovate-oblong, obtuse at apex ; pedicels long, slender ; stigmas 

 minute ............................................................... 3. Beddomci. 



Flowers in subterminal umbels ; dwarf shrubs with oblanceolate 

 coarsely-nerved leaves up to 6 in. long ; styles free at apex 4. pumila- 

 Flowers small, solitary or in racemes of 2-3 flowers, axillary or lateral ; 

 leaves subcoriaceous : 



Leaves elliptic or ovate, obtuse, subcordate, with conspicuous close 

 nerves, under 1'5 in. long ; styles scarcely free at apex ; stigmas 

 minute .................................................................. 5 . Wiglitiana- 



Leaves oblong-lanceolate, acute at both ends, with inconspicuous 

 nerves, 2 3 in. long ; styles free at apex with peltate stigmas 



6. Heyueana. 



1. OCHNA SQUARROSA, Linn. ; F. IB. I. i. 523 ; Eoxb. Cor. PI. i. 

 t. 89 ; Wt. 111. i. t. 69. 



N. Circars, common in Ganjarn and Yizagapatam ; Deccan 



