OCHROCARPUS LONGIFOLIUS. (Nat. ord. Guttfferre.) 



OCHROCARPUS. Thouars. — GEN. CHAR. Flowers polygamous, calyx closed before floweriDg, at length opening in 2 valves or sepals, petals 

 4, stamens indefinite shortly connate below or free, filaments filiform, anthers erect oblong or linear dehiscing longitudinally, ovary 2 celled, style short 

 thick, stigma large peltate slightly 2 lobed, ovules 2 in each cell, fruit baccate 1-4 seeded, seeds large, embryo of a large fleshy radicle (tigella) with the 

 cotyledons reduced to a mammiliform projection or none. Trees, with opposite or ternately verticellate coriaceous leaves, and axillary fascicles of flowers. 

 Benth. and Booh. Gen. PI. 1. 980. Calysaccion, Wight 111. 1. 130. 



OCHKOCARPUS LONGIFOLIUS. (Benth. 8s Hook.) A large tree, everywhere glabrous, young shoots terete or 

 slightly 4 sided, leaves opposite or ternately verticellate oblong with a short blunt point, rounded or slightly attenuated at the base, 

 hard thick and coriaceous, venation inconspicuous (but beautifully reticulated when dry), 6-10 inches long by 2-3£ broad, petioles -£ 

 inch long, flowers numerous in short fascicles congested on lateral tubercles springing from the axils of fallen leaves, peduncles short 

 1 flowered, fruit oblong falcate about one inch long by 5 lines in diameter. Benth. and Hook. Gen. PI. i. p. 980. Maminea lonwifolia, 

 I. c. p. 176. Calysaccion longifolium, Wight III, p. 130 ; et I cones tab. 1999. Calophyllum longifolium, Wall* Cat. 



This tree is indigenous on the Malabar, Conean and Bombay ghats, and is cultivated in the Banglore gardens, Northern Circars and 

 elsewhere ; the tree is dioecious, or at least monoecious in a loild stale, but becomes often hermathrodite when in cultivation. The tree /lowers in 

 March and April, and the flowers aie white streaked with red ; the globular flower buds are used/or dyeing silk, and are dried and exported from 

 the Bombay Presidency, where the male tree is called Woondy and the female Poone, both being also known under the name of Suringel or 

 Oardoondy. I am not acquainted viith the timber, but it is said to be used in house building,- 



