128 XXYII. OCHNACE^ [OcJina 



Oedee XXVII. OCHNACE^. Gen. PL i. 316. 



Shrubs or trees. L. alternatej simple, glabrous, stipulate. Fl. yellow or 

 orange, on jointed pedicels. Sepals 5, free, imlDricate, petals 5 or more. 

 Stamens 10 or indefinite, anthers linear. Ovary deeply 3-10-lnbed and -celled, 

 cells 1 ovulate, style 1 slender. Pr. of 3-10 drupes, sessile upon the enlarged 

 torus or disk. Albumen none. 



Stamens co 1. Ochna. 



Stamens 10 2. Gomphia, 



1. OCHNA, Schreber ; M. Brit. Ind. i. 523. 



Deciduous. L. serrate, stipules distinct, almost intrapetiolar. Fl. yellow, 

 sepals coloured, persistent, petals 5-12, stamens oo, shorter than petals, anthers 

 generally opening by terminal pores, filaments often persistent. Species 25-30, 

 tropical Asia and Africa. 



A. Filaments shorter than anthers. 



1. O. squarrosa, Eoxb. Cor. PL t. 89; Wight, 111. t. 69. Vern. Koniari^ 

 Uriya. 



A shrub or small tree. L. elliptic or elliptic-lanceolate, acute, narrowed 

 into a short petiole, 3-5 in. long, finely serrulate, sec. n. numerous, 

 slender, parallel. FL while in leaf, fragrant, in corymbose racemes, mostly at 

 the ends of short leafless woody branchlets, pedicels 1-1 1 in., petals 5-12, as 

 long as sepals, anthers many times longer than the short filaments. Drupes 

 J in. longj fruiting sepals generally erect. 



Assam, Burma, Westei"!! Peninsula. PI. Pebr., March. Ceylon. To this possibly 

 belongs 0, hrevipes, Planchon, Pegu. 2, 0. fruticulosa, Ktirz, P. Fl. i. 206, bills east of 

 ToungoOj ascf^nding to 5,000 ft. (G-allatly, 1877) also in the Eng forest of Upper Burma 

 (Smales, Imlcdngseni, Burm), a low shrub 2-3 ft., stems perennial slencler, grey, fl. 

 i-lj in. aci*o&s, appearing before tbe leaves in few-iid. umbels, at the end of sbort 

 branchlets, petals 5. 8. 0. pumila, Ham. ; Brandis, P. Fl. 60. Subliimalayan tract, 

 chiefly in Sal forests, from the Dehra Dfin to Sikkim, Eastern Satpura hills, a low 

 undershrtib with a perennial rootstock, throwing uj) annually (after the jungle fires 

 of the hot season) a number of short snbherbaceous stems, bearing leaves and flowers, 

 leaves oblanceolate, serrate with cuspidate teeth. El. appear -with the leaves, 1^-2 m. 

 across, in 2~4-fld. bracteate umbels on peduncles 2-3 m long, petals 5. 



4. O. Gamblei, King mss. ; Kukka movl, Tel. 



A large shrub or small tree, branches stiff erect. L. coriaceous, glaucous, 

 often whitish, broadly elliptic, obtuse, sometimes obovate, sessile, often with 

 cordate base, 3-5x2-3 in. PL |-1 in. across, on slender pedicels, li-2 in. 

 long, in dense many-fid. corymbs at the ends of short woody leafless branch- 

 lets, sepals 4-5, petals 6-8, filaments |~| length of anthers. 



Western Peninsula, from Chanda to Travancore, common on the dry rocky hills of 

 Anantapiir, Ouddapah, and on the Yeligondas. Kambakum hill (D B. 1881). PL H. S. 



B. Pilaments as long as anthers or longer. 



5. O. Wallichii, Planchon; Kurz, P. PL i. 205.— Syn. 0. andamanica^ 

 Kurz. "Vern, Today a^ Lower, Indaing sent, Upper Burma. 



A tree, attaining 50 ft. L. ^8 in. long, inflorescence similar to A. squar- 

 rosa, fl. appearing with or before the leaves, petals 5, much longer than sepals, 



