982 LXXIX. APOCYNACE/E. [Ochrosia. 



(4 to 6) in each carpel, in 2 rows. Fruit a drupe, usually single by the abortion 

 of the other carpel, somewhat compressed from front to back, the endocarp 

 very thick and bony, divided longitudinally along the inner face into 2 thick, 

 cylindrical, usually hollow portions, the real cell between them containing 1 or 

 rarely 2 broad flat seeds. Albumen fleshy ; cotyledons broad and flat ; radicle 

 superior. — Trees, with abundant milky juice. Leaves opposite or whorled, the 

 primary veins transverse. Flowers in pedunculate cymes, terminal or in the 

 uppermost axils. Bracts very small. 



A small genus, dispersed over the Hascarene and South Sea Islands. Of the 6 Queensland 

 species, all but one are endemic, that one extends to New Caledonia and the Fiji Islands. The 

 floral characters are nearly those of Alyxia, but the fruit is very different. — Benth. (in part). 



Leaves in whorls of 3 or 4, obovate-oblong and obtuse. Drupe acuminate, 



about 2in. long; endocarp even . . .1. 0. elliptica. 



Leaves in whorls of 3, or sometimes opposite, ovate-lanceolate, green on both 



sides. Drupe orange-yellow, ovoid-oblong, lin. long, apiculate ... 2, 0. Newelliana, 



Leaves opposite, oblong lanceolate and acuminate, pale oii the under side 



obscuring the nerves. Drupe red, ovoid-oblong, acuminate, lin. long; 



endocarp smooth . , 3. 0. Poweri. 



Leaves opposite, oblong-lauceolate and acuminate. Drupe oblong, flattened, 



2^in. long. lin. broad ; endocarp smooth, but sculptured 4. 0. Moorei. 



Leaves in whorls of 4 or 5, obovate, ouneate. Drupe obtuse-ovate, 2 to Sin. 



long ; endocarp deeply cut into root-like processes 5. 0. Kilneri. 



Leaves in whorls of 5. Drupe elliptic-oblong, Sin. long, point recurved ; 



endocarp with root-like processes 6. 0. CowUyi. 



1. O. elliptica (leaves elliptic), Lahill. Sert. Austr. Caled. 25 t. 30 ; Benth. 

 Fl. Austr. iv. 310. A tree with a milky juice, quite glabrous. Leaves in 

 whorls of 3 or 4, rarely here and there opposite, from obovate-oblong to broadly 

 elliptical, very obtuse or shortly acuminate, contracted into a petiole, coriaceous, 

 the transverse veins numerous and parallel, 3 to 6in. long, or even more oft 

 luxuriant barren shoots. Flowers sessile, in small dense corymbose cymes 

 shortly pedunculate in the uppermost axils. Calyx-segments ovate-oblong, 

 obtuse, very concave, thickened in the middle, about 1 line long. Corolla- 

 tube slender, about 4 lines long, the lobes linear, about 3 lines. Anthers 

 lanceolate, acute. Hypogynous glands scarcely conspicuous. Drupes scarlet, 

 acuminate, 1 to 2in. long, each of the parallel portions of the endocarp about 4 

 to 5 lines diameter, with a large cavity more or less filled with pith, the real 

 cell very much compressed. Seeds nearly orbicular, bordered by a narrow 

 wing-like margin. — A. DC. Prod. viii. 857; O. parviflora, RensL in Ann. Nat. 

 Hist, (not Ann. Bot.) i. 345 ; A. DC. I.e.; Seem. Fl. Vit. 158 ; Bleekena lealocarpa, 

 Hassk. Eetzia, i. 40 ; Lactaria calocarpa, Hassk. in Ned. Kruidk. Arch. iv. 9 ; 

 F. V. M. Eep. Burdek. Exped. 15 ; Fragm. iii. 110. 



Hab.: Common among the mangroves all along the coast. 



Also in New Caledonia and in the Fiji and other islands of the S. Pacific. 



2. O. Newelliana (after J. Newell, M.L.A.), Bail. Ql. Agri. Joum. v. 

 A small slender-stemmed glabrous tree. Leaves in whorls of 8, or sometimes 

 opposite at the ends of the branchlets, ovate-lanceolate, gradually tapering 

 from about the middle to a short rather slender petiole, the apex rounded to a 

 somewhat elongated blunt point or on the young smaller leaves sharp point, 

 2i to 4iin. long, and from 1 to 2in. broad above the middle, subcoriaceous ; 

 lateral nerves parallel, almost horizontal and numerous, distinct, looping and 

 forming an intramarginal one some distance from the edge of leaf, green on 

 both sides. Flowers not seen. Peduncles terminal, 2 or 3 lines long, often 

 recurved, minutely forked and bearing at the end of each fork a sessile flower. 

 Drupes orange-yellow, slightly exceeding lin. long, and nearly \m. diameter, 

 solitary on the specimens received, but the 2 flowers being so close together 



