Ochrosia.] LXXIX. AJfOCtNACEifi. 988 



as if the two drupes were from one flower, oblong-ovoid with a. short incurved 

 apex, the base rounded, endocarp spongy, corky, not hard. Seeds linear with 

 broad flat wings. 

 Hab.: Near Atherton, J. F. .' liley. 



3. O. Poweri (after E. D. Power), Bail. Bot. Bull. xii. A glabrous small 

 tree or tall shrub, branchlets dichotomous. Leaves opposite, oblong-lanceolate, 

 acuminate, about 4 or Sin. long, narrowing to a petiole of 2 or 3 lines ; apex 

 blunt bat more or less elongated, smooth on both sides, the under somewhat 

 paler in colour, midrid broad, transverse veins only faintly visible, although the 

 texture of the leaf is not thick. Flowers in dichotomous cymes terminating the 

 branchlets ; primary peduncle very short, often scarcely exceeding 1 line in 

 length ; secondary peduncles about fin. long, frequently only 1 of these 

 produced, which are again forked or bear 2 or 8 nearly sessile or shortly 

 pedicellate flowers at the end. Bracts and bracteoles minute with scarious 

 margins. Calyx-segments 5 or 6, obtuse, thickened in the centre, the margins 

 transparent. Corolla-tube slender, Bf lines long ; lobes broad, about 2f lines 

 long. Ovary glabrous. Carpels 2, drupe-like (or 1 by abortion), bright-red, 

 ovoid-oblong, acuminate, nearly terete, 12 or 13 lines long, endocarp nearly 

 smooth. Seed similar in shape to the fruit, flat, about half the length of the 

 fruit, only 1 in the specimen examined. 



Hab.: Kumundi ; North Coast Railway. 



4. O. Moorei (after, Charles Moore), X v. M.; Benth. Fl. Amtr. iv. 810. 

 A slender tree, quite glabrous. Leaves mostly opposite, narrow-oblong or 

 oblong-lanceolate, acuminate, tapering in a short petiole, the transverse veins 

 not near so close and numerous as in 0. elliptica and the texture thinner, 3 to 

 Gin. long. Inflorescence in slender dichotomous cymes usually 8 at the ends of 

 the branchlets, probably all three joined at the base but appearing free from the 

 brevity of the common peduncle, then the secondary peduncles may be given 

 as about 8 lines long, once or twice forked-angular, bearing at their extremities 

 a few sessile (except the one in the fork) flowers. Calyx-segments angular, 

 thick and concave, about If line long. Corolla-tube about 4 lines long, scarcely 

 swollen and hairy round the anthers ; lobes about 3 lines long. Anthers small, 

 close under the throat. Drupes scarlet, 2fin. long and lin. broad, obtuse and 

 flattened ; endocarp smoothly sculptured in pits or wavy lines. 



Hab.: Towards the Tweed Biver, Hon. C. F. Marks, M.D., M.L.G. 



5. O. Kilneri (after F. Kilner), F. v. M. Fragm. vii. 129. A tall shady 

 glabrous tree with a bitter bark. Leaves 4 or 5 in a whorl, 2f to 5in. long, 

 obovate, cuneate at the base, under side palle-green, lateral nerves widely 

 spreading, veins very thin ; petiole about lin. long. Panicle wide, trichotomous ; 

 pedicels slender. Calyx 5-partite, eglandulous, scarcely exceeding 1 line long ; 

 lobes imbricate, outer ones deltoid-ovate, inner ones broad or orbicular-ovate, 

 not keeled on the back. Corolla deeply 5-fid, deciduous, tube scarcely 1 line 

 long, lobes contort-imbricate, 8 lines long. Stamens 5, inserted at the bearded 

 throat of the corolla-tube ; filaments very short. Anthers basifixed introrse, 

 f line long, oblong, rounded at the base ; apex acute, dehiscing in 2 longitudinal 

 slits. Styles 2, very short, free below, united in the upper part. Ovary 

 glabrous. Disk patelliform, very short and entire. Peduncle bearing the fruit 

 at first about If line long, afterwards about lin. Drupes ovate, obtuse, without 

 angles, 2 to 3fin. long. Pericarp of a pretty red and smooth outside. Sarcocarp 

 pulpy, about 2 lines thick. Endocarp deeply cut up into a spiny tuberculose 

 covering. — 0. McDowalliana, Bail. Bot. Bull. vii. 



Hab.: Mount Dryander, Fitzalan and Kiliier, 



