«638 xciv. APOCTNACEai. (J. D. Hooker.) [Cerbera. 



Ijroad, compressed, peltately attached to the placenta, albumen : cotyledon 

 Tthin, radicle very short. — Distrib. 4 maritime species, Madagascar, tropical 

 -Asia, and the Pacific. 



C. Odollam, Gaertn. Fruct. ii. 193, 1. 124 ; leaves lanceolate or ohlanceo- 

 'iate or linear-ohovate acute or abruptly acuminate narrowed into the stout 

 petiole. A. DC. Prodr. viii. 353 ; Wight Ic. t. 441 ; Hoxb. Fl. Ind. i. 692, 

 :and in ed. Carey ^ Wall. ii. 527; Grah. Cat. Bomb. PI. 116; Brand. For. Fl. 

 -322 ; Kurz For. Fl. ii. 171 ; Bedd. For. Fl. Anal. Gen. 157. 0. Manghu, 

 Zinn. partly ; Wall. Cat. 1582, in Roxh. Fl. Ind. ed. Wall. 8r Carey, ii. 629 ; 

 Bot. Mag. t. 1845. C. lactaria, Ham. ; A. DC. I. c. C. laurifolia, Lodd. Bot. 

 Cab. t. 989. Tanghinia Odollam, lactaria and laurifolia, G. Don Gen. 8yst. iv. 

 ■m.—Rheede Sort. Mai. i. t. 39. 



Salt swamps, or on the coasts of India, and Ceylon.- — Disteie. Malay Archipelago, 

 ■CJhina, Australia, Pacific Islds. 



A small tree or large shrub, branches very thick. Leaves 3-8 by 1-2 in., leathery, 

 'black when dry, shining above, nerves very slender ; petiole stout, ^1^ in. Cyines 

 large ; peduncle 2-6 in., stout, branches corymbose; bracts ovate, deciduous; flowers 

 white, shortly pedicelled. Calyx-lohes ^-1 ' in., lanceolate, acuminate, revolute. 

 ■Corolla-tube J in., mouth red, limb 1-3 in. diam., lobes falcately triangular-obovate, 

 ■acute. Ripe carpel ovoid, 2-4 in. long. — Omitted in Salzell & Gibs. Bomb. Flora, but 

 '■stated by Graham to be native of the South Concan. 



11. OCKXtOSXA, Juss. 



Trees. Leaves whorled, rarely opposite or scattered ; nerves very numerous, 

 slender, spreading. Cymes terminal, at length lateral, peduncled. Calyx 5- 

 partite, eglandulax, segments obtuse. Corolla salver-shaped, tube cylindric, 

 "throat naked, lobes overlapping to the right. Stamens above the middle of the 

 "tube, included ; anthers lanceolate, cells rounded at the baSe. Disc 0, or 

 •obscure. Carpels 2, distinct ; style filiform, top oblong, stigma 2-fld ; ovules 

 -2-6, 2-seriate in each carpel on each side of a prominent placenta. Fruit of 2 

 (rarely 1) spreading drupes ; endocarp-hard, thick, usually dorsaUy compressed 

 ■and ventrally grooved. Seeds solitary, or 2 separated by the placenta, flattened, 

 ■albumen (or fleshy ?) ; cotyledons large, flat ; radicle short, superior. — 

 DiSTBTB. Species 12, Mascarene Islands, Malay Archipelago, Australia and the 

 Pacific. 



O. borbonica, Chnel. ; A. DC. Prodr. viii. 356 ; glabrous, leaves in 

 "whorls of 3-4 obovate narrowed into the petiole polished above, tip rounded. 

 Thwaites Fnum. 192. O. salubris, Blume Mus. Bot. i. 158 ; Kurz For. Fl. ii. 

 172. Cerbera parviflora, Wall. Cat. 1584. C. salutaris. Lour. ; Blume Bijd. 

 1038. 



Tidal forests of the Andaman Islds., Kur:, of Singapoee, Wallich, and Cbtlon. ■ 

 — DiSTKiB. Java, Seyehelle and Mascarene Islds. 



An evergreen tree, 20 ft. high, branches very stout. Leaves 6-16 by 2-6 in., 

 •coriaceous, yellow when dry, nerves nearly straight ; petiole ^-2 in. Cymes stoutly 

 peduncled, branches short, thick, corymbose ; lower bracts sometimes leafy ; flowers 

 "white, shortly thickly pedicelled. Calyx-lobes very coriaceous, ovate. Corolla-tube 

 J in., limb \ in. diam. Ripe carpels " ellipsoid-oblong, about 2 in. long " (Kwrz). — 

 I have seen no fruit, and have refrained from quoting synonyms, the specimens of the 

 genus, being difficult to procure, are insuifieient for complete identification; but I 

 suspect that this species extends under various names from the Mauritius to Australia 

 and the Fiji Islands. 



