Pee ein ee oe ee oe 
Leaves acuminate, laxly and oi ee ‘ebay et the lateral nerves 
strong and anastomosing; 
Ochrocarpus. } GUTTIFERR. 93 
Sci —Rather frequent in the tropical “org of South Andaman and adja- 
cent islands.—Fl. March-May ; Fr. May-Jun =SiS. 
15. G. Xanthochymus, H.f. Ind. Fi. i. 269 Se ae 
pictorius, Roxb.; Bedd. Sylv. Madr. t. a ieedl taw.—An ev 
green tree (40—50 + 12—20 + 3—5), all parts glabrous ; bark 2. 3 
lin. thick, rather smooth, blackish ‘or dark grey ; cut pale-coloured, 
milky, the milk soon turning yellow ; sen yve oblong-lanceolate to 
elongate-oblong, shortly acuminate, $-1} ft. long, on a rather long 
and thick petiole, acute or obtuse at Tase, coriaceous, glabrous ; 
owers yellow, expanded, about an in. in diameter, on about an in. 
long strong pedicels arising in fascicles from short thick warts ; 
sepals and petals 5, rarely and only occasionally 4, and then often 
the 5th sepal disarranged and scale-lke; staminal bundles of the 
ents ; berries as large as an ier or lime, almost oval, apicu- 
late, deep Se containing 3 to 5 darge seeds imbedded in 
yellow _ like pulp. 
Has er frequent in the tropical forests of Martaban and Pegu; 3; also 
Chittagong, Pee and Tenasserim ; Ava.—F]. March-Apr.; Fr. R. S.—s.— 
SS.—Metam. 8i8. 
Remarks.—Wood yellowish-white with a darker coloured large heart-wood, 
turning pale yellowish-brown, rather heavy, fibrous, but close-grained, rather 
hard. Yields gamboge of inferior auntie 
OCHROCARPUS, Thouars. 
_ Calyx closed before flowering, at length rupturing into 2, rarely 
3, valve-like sepals. Petals 4-7 or more. Stamens inde finite ; fila- 
ments free or connate at base ; athe dehiscing vertically. : 
2-celled, with 2 ovules in each ; style short ; —— 2-lobed. Berry 
1-4-seeded. Cotyledons minute or none, the radicle large and 
fleshy.—Trees, with simple leaves and auliay gs polygamous flowers. 
_ Leaves blunt or retuse, minutely lacunose-reticulate, the _— 
- 
nerves not visible; filaments longer than the anthers . Siamensis. 
small, filaments shorter 
Sic: the-anthare . J 5 - O. nervosus. — 
