172 APOCYNEZ. [ Cerbera. 
long’, almost foli 1 sepal-like, lanceolate, acuminate, reflexed ; 
corolla-tube nearly 4 an in. long, the triangularly-faleate lobes 
nearly as long or longer; drupes oval to elliptical, the size of a 
duck’s egg, fibrous-woody, the epicarp smooth, green, then brown 
or blackish when fully ripe. 
Has.—Not unfrequent in the littoral, chiefly the tidal, forests from Chitta- 
pong sok Arracan down to Tenasserim and the Andamans.—FI. March-May.— 
pod white, very soft and spongy. Seeds yielding an oil for 
ps. 
OCHROSIA, Juss. 
Calyx 5-lobed, without glands, the lobes short and erect, - 
Corolla salver-shaped, dextrorsely twisted in bud, the tube cylindri- 
cal and somewhat inflated above the middle, the throat without 
scales. Stamens 5, inserted in the inflated part of the corolla-tube; 
anthers sagittate, longer than the filaments. Nectary none. 
ry of 2 distinct carpels, often cohering at the apex and united 
by the filiform style, with 2-4 ovules in each carpel; stigma coni- 
. Drupes usually paired, free or connate at the base and more 
or less diverging, rarely by abortion singly, the putamen woody or 
horny, usually fibrous externally, 2-4- rarely ]-seeded, Albumen 
scanty. Embryo with flat almost orbicular cotyledons and an 
elongate radicle.—Trees or shrubs, with opposite or crowded leaves. 
Flowers small, in terminal or almost terminal, small, corymb-like 
cymes, 
1. 0. salubris, Bl.—An evergreen tree (20—25 + 15—20+3— 
4), all parts glabrous ; leaves obovate or elongate-obovate, acute at 
the base, on a 3-14 in. long petiole, 6-8 in. long, rounded or 
obsoletely apiculate, thin-coriaceous, entire, glabrous and glossy, 
el-nerved ; flowers small, white, shortly pedicelled, forming a 
TABERNEZEMONTAN A, Plum. © 
Calyx 5-parted, with a rine of base 
a : , g§ of small linear glands at the bas 
inside. Corolla salver-shaped, the tube glinisicnl; slightly swollen — 
round the anthers, the throat without scales, the lobes spreading, 
