Ochna. | OCHNACER. 205 
_ & Styles free at the summit; fruiting sepals erect-conniving . O. Andamanica. 
* % Styles united along the whole length. 
S. 
Petals usually 7-8; filaments almost 4 times shorter than the 
anthers ; fruiting sepals erect-conniving é 4 ‘ . O, squarrosa. 
Petals 5; filaments as long or longer than the anthers; fruiting 
eflexed - O. Wallichii. 
t t Dwarf shrubs ; filaments about as long as the anthers ; 
ruiting sepals erect-connivent. 
Bractlets linear, conspicuous ; peduncles very long, axillary, 2-3- 
rarely 1-flowered : 2 : : : ‘ 
Bractlets none ; peduncle none or very reduced, usually corym- 
-flowered . 2 . . * - O. fruticulosa. 
O. pumila. 
1. 0. Andamanica, Kz.—A small tree, shedding leaves in H.S., 
all parts glabrous ; leaves oblong or oblong-lanceolate, about 4-5 
m. long, shortly petioled, acute and mucronate, bristly or minutely 
serrulate, chartaceous, glossy above; flowers large and showy, 
bright yellow, appearing with the young leaves, on rather short 
| but slender afterwards elongating pedicels, jointed with the simple 
. very short peduncles which arise from the end of the lateral leafless 
branchlets ; filaments as long or somewhat longer than the anthers ; 
petals 5, somewhat longer than the sepals, obovate, broadly clawed ; 
sepals of the fruiting calyx all erect-connivent ; styles all free at 
€ summit and spreading. 
Has.—Rather frequent in the tropical and moister upper mixed forests of 
= Andamans.—Fl. March; Fr. May-June.—s.—SS.—=SiS. Chloritie rocks, 
RemarKs.—Wood pale-brown, heavy, close-grained, but irregularly fibrous, 
hard and somewhat brittle, the sapwood paler-coloured. 
parts glabrous ; bark greyish-brown, 8-4 lin. thick, rather smooth or 
slightly wrinkled ; cut reddish, dry; leaves from elliptically oblong 
to oblong-lanceolate, about 4-5 in. long, shortly petioled, narrowed at 
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m longer branched peduncles at the end of the longer or shorter 
: leafless branchlets ; petals about 5, about twice as long as the sepals, 
longer than the anthers; sepals of the fruiting calyx all reflexed ; 
styles about an inch long, the stigmas depressed-capitate. 
| Has.—yV, frequent in the tropical forests of Martaban and Tenasserim ; 
a less so alor the 8 roe southern slopes of the Pegu Yomah.—Fl. March ; 
__, ¥t Apr-May.—88, = Meta. 8i8., Lat. p. vee 
REMaRKs.—Wood brown, heavy, close-grained, of a flexuose fibre, brittle. 
3. Q. squarrosa, Roxb.; H.f. Ind. Fl. i. 523 in part only; 
Bedd. Sylv. Madr. 50, t. 8,f. 3; Brand. For. Fl. 60.—A small 
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