Bahmfes.\ xxxiv. siMARUBEiE. (Alfred W. Bennett.) 523 



A small tree, 20 ft. high, with glahrons or puherulou8 hranclies ending in very strong 

 sharp ascending spines. Leaves of two elliptical or obovate puberulous entire coriaceous 

 leaflets. C^mes 4-10-flowered. '.Sspab and ^etais ovate, velvety-pubescent. Filaments 

 filiform-subulate. Fruit large, woody, angular, more than an inch long. — ^Very nearly 

 allied to, and perhaps only a variety of, the B. cegyptiaca of northern and tropical 

 Africa. 



Okder XXXV. OCHNACE.a:. (By Alfred W. Bennett, F.L.S.) 



Glabrous trees or shrubs, with, watery juice. Leaves alternate, simple, 

 (very rarely pinnate) coriaceous ; stipules 2. Inflorescence panicled or occa- 

 sionally umbellate (rarely flowers solitary), bracteate. Flowers hermaphro- 

 dite, conspicuous. Sepals 4-5, free, imbricate, persistent. Fetals 5, rarely 

 4 or 10, free, hypogynous, imbricate, longer than the sepals, deciduous. 

 Disk enlarged after flowering, occasionally 0. Stamens 4, 5, 8, 10, or inde- 

 finite, inserted on the disk ; filaments persistent ; anthers basifixed, some- 

 times deciduous, dehiscing longitudinally, or often opening by terminal 

 pores. Ovary short, 2-celled or elongate and 1-10-celled; placenta axile or 

 parietal; style simple, subulate, acute, rarely divided at the extremity, 

 stigmas simple, terminal ; ovules 1-2 in each cell or indefinite, ascending 

 or rarely pendulous, raphe ventral, micropyle superior. Fruit indehiscent, 

 drupaceous or baccate, compound, each drupe or pyrene 1-4-seeded ; or 

 capsular and 1-5-celled with septicidal dehiscence. Seeds solitary, few, or 

 numerous ; albumen fleshy or ; embryo straight or rarely curved, 

 radicle superior or inferior. — Distkib. Tropical regions of both hemispheres, 

 chiefly American ; species about 150. 



Teibb I. Oclmeae. Ovary 2-10-celled ; ovules solitary in each cell. 

 Seeds exalbuminous. 

 Stamens oo ; flowers paniculate .... ... . 1. Oohna. 



Stamens 10 ; flowers paniculate or umbellate .2. Gomphia. 



Sepals, petals, and stamens 4 3. Tetkameeista. 



TEtBE II. EuthemidesB. Ovary semi-6-ceUed ; ovules 2 in each cell. 

 Seeds albuminous. 

 Stamens 5, with alternate staminodes 4. Edthemis. 



1. OCKNA, Linn. 



Glabrous trees or shrubs. Leaves alternate, simple, serrate, rarely entire, 

 2-stipulate. Flowers large, yellow, in bracteate jjanicles or umbels. 

 Sepals 5, coloured, persistent. Petals 5-10, deciduous. Dish thick, lobed. 

 Stamens a> , shorter than the petals, filaments short or elongated ; anthers 

 opening longitudinally, deciduous. Ovary deeply 3-10-lobed, lobes 

 1-celled ; styles entirely connate or distinct at the apex ; ovules solitary 

 in each cell, axile. Fruit of 3-10 drupes seated on the broad disk. Seed 

 erect, albuminous.— Distkib. Tropical Asia and Africa ; species about 25. 



1. O. squarrosa, Linn. ; BG. Prod/r. i. 735 ; leaves from narrowly 

 'oblong to oblong-ovate or obovate, acute obtuse or mucronate, finely serra,te, 

 flowers fragrant, petals 7-12 (rarely 5), anthers very long deciduous, with 

 very short persistent filaments, styles united to the apex. Mom. Fl. , 

 Ind. ii. 643 : Cm: PI. i t. 89 ; Wight III. i. t. 69 ; Orah. Cat. Bomb. PL ^\ 

 Balz. S Gibs. Bomb. Fl. Suppl. 17. 0. lucida, Lamk III. t. 472, f. i. ; JJO. 

 1.6. ; Planch, in Hook Joum. Bot. v. 649; Griff. Not. iv. 464 t. 605, f. vi. 

 '0. nitida, Thunh. ; DC. I.e. ; Planch. I.e. 650 {not of Wall). O. rufescens (?) 

 Thunb. I.e.; Thw. Enum. 70. 0. obtusata, DC. I.e. 735 ; Wall. Cat. 2805. 



