128 XXYII. OCHNACEiE. [Ochna 



Oedee XXVII. OCHNACE^l. Gen. PL i. 316. 



Shrubs or trees. L. alternate, simple, glabrous, stipulate. Fl. y e ]k>w or 

 orange, on jointed pedicels. Sepals 5, free, imbricate, petals 5 or more. 

 Stamens 10 or indefinite, anthers linear. Ovary deeply 3-lO-lobed and -celled, 

 cells 1 ovulate, style 1 slender. Fr. of 3-10 drupes, sessile upon the enlarged 

 torus or disk. Albumen none. 



Stamens cc 1. Ochna. 



Stamens 10 ' . .2. Gomphia. 



1. OCHNA, Schreber; Fl. Brit. Ind. i. 523. 



Deciduous. L. serrate, stipules distinct, almost intrapetiolar. Fl. yellow, 

 sepals coloured, persistent, petals 5-12, stamens oo, shorter than petals, anthers 

 generally opening by terminal pores, filaments often persistent. Species 25-30, 

 tropical Asia and Africa. 



A. Filaments shorter than anthers. 



1. O. squarrosa, Roxb. Cor. PI. t. 89 ; Wight, 111. t. 69. Vera. Koniari, 



Uriya. 



A shrub or small tree. L. elliptic or elliptic-lanceolate, acute, narrowed 

 into a short petiole, 3-5 in. long, finely serrulate, sec. n. numerous, 

 slender, parallel. Fl. while in leaf, fragrant, in corymbose racemes, mostly at 

 the ends of short leafless woody branchlets, pedicels 1-li- in., petals 5-12, as 

 long as sepals, anthers many times longer than the short filaments. Drupes 

 J" in. long, fruiting sepals generally erect. 



Assum, Burma, Western Peninsula. El. Febr., March. Ceylon. To this possibly 

 belongs 0. brevipes, Planchon, Pegu. 2. 0. fruticulosa, Kurz, F. Fl. i. 206, hills east of 

 Toungoo, ascending to 5,000 ft. (Gallatly, 1877) also in the Eng forest of Upper Burma 

 (Smales, Indaing-seni, Burm.), a low shrub 2-3 ft., stems perennial slender, grey, fl. 

 1— 1-J in. across, appearing before the leaves in few-fid. umbels, at the end of short 

 branchlets, petals 5. 3. O. pumila, Ham. : Brandis, F. Fl. 60. Subhimalayan tract, 

 chiefly in Sal forests, from the Dehra Dun to Sikkim, Eastern Satpura hills, a low 

 undershrub with a perennial rootstock, throwing np annually (after the jungle fires 

 of the hot season) a number of short subherbaceous stems, bearing leaves and flowers, 

 leaves oblanceolate, serrate with cuspidate teeth. Fl. appear with the leaves, 1^-2 in. 

 across, in 2-4-fld. bracteate umbels on peduncles 2-3 in. long, petals 5. 



4. O. Gamblei, King mss. ; ~K.uk.ka movi, Tel. 



A large shrub or small tree, branches stiff erect. L. coriaceous, glaucous, 

 often whitish, broadly elliptic, obtuse, sometimes obovate, sessile, often with 

 cordate base, 3-5x2-3 in. Fl. f-1 in. across, on slender pedicels, li-2 in. 

 long, in dense niany-fld. corymbs at the ends of short woody leafless branch- 

 lets, sepals 4-5, petals 6-8, filaments \— \ length of anthers. 



Western Peninsula, from Chanda to Travancore, common on the dry rocky hills of 

 Anantapur, Cnddapah, and on the Veligondas. Kambakum hill (D.B. 1881). Fl. H. S. 



B. Filaments as long as anthers or longer. 



5. O. Wallichii, Planchon; Kurz, F. Fl. i. 205.— Syn. O. andamanica, 

 Kurz. Vera. Yodaya, Lower, Induing seni, Upper Burma. 



A tree, attaining 50 ft. L. 4-8 in. long, inflorescence similar to A. squar- 

 rosa, fl. appearing with or before the leaves, petals 5, much longer than sepals, 



