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XCI. APOCYNACEiE. 
[ Ochrosia . 
Calyx 5-lobed. Corolla salver-shaped, tube cylindric, throat 
naked, lobes 5, overlapping to right. Stamens included at or 
above middle. Carpels 2; style filiform; stigma oblong, bifid. 
Drupes twin, spreading; endocarp hard. About 12 species, 
Mascarenes to the Pacific eastwards. 
(1) O. borbonica Gmel. Syst. Veg. i. 439; King, l.c. 428. 
Tree 20 ft. tall; branches stout. Leaves fleshy 3 or 4 in a 
whorl, obovate blunt and apiculate, base cuneate; nerves 20 to 
26 pairs; 4 to 10 in. long, 2 to 5 in. wide; petioles '5 to i'5 in. 
long, stout. Cymes short; peduncles 1 to 4 in. long; secondary 
peduncle 1 in. long. Corolla *3 in. long, white; tube cylindric, 
lobes oblong. Drupe 2*5 in. long, curved, ovoid oblique, 175 in. 
wide, yellow. Hab. Rare on seashores at tidal creeks, Singapore 
(Wallich), not seen here again. Pulau Adang (Ridley). Distrib. 
Indo-Malaya. 
11. LOCHNERA, DC. 
Shrublets. Leaves opposite. Flowers solitary axillary. Calyx- 
lobes narrow, 5. Corolla salver-shaped, tube cylindric with hair 
below stamens, throat constrict. Stamens above the middle. 
Disc of 2 large glands. Carpels 2, distinct; ovules many, 2-seriate 
in each carpel; style filiform; stigma annulate. Follicles 2, slender. 
Seeds sub-cylindric truncate. Species 3, 1 American and now in 
all tropics, 1 Indian, 1 Madagascar. 
(1) L. rosea Reichb. Consp. Reg. Veg. 134. Vinca rosea Linn. 
Sp. PL ed. ii. 305. 
Plant about 1 ft. tall. Leaves membranous obovate, dark 
green, 1 to 1-5 in. long, *5 to 75 in. wide, narrowed to a short 
petiole. Flowers in terminal axils, 1 or 2 usually open, sessile. 
Corolla-tube cylindric, 1 in. long, limb of broad blunt lobes, 1 in. 
across, rose pink, white or white with crimson eye. Follicles 
slender, cylindric, 1 in. long. Thoroughly established in sandy 
places near the sea over the whole peninsula. Native of America. 
Commonly known as the “West Indian periwinkle.” 
12. ERVATAMIA, Stapf. 
Small or large shrubs usually quite glabrous. Leaves mem¬ 
branous or fleshy coriaceous. Flowers small to fair-sized, showy, 
white, in terminal or axillary corymbose cymes; branches di¬ 
chotomous. Calyx small, lobes 5, free or connate at base. Corolla 
salver-shaped, tube cylindric slightly dilate at mouth, lobes over¬ 
lapping to left (rarely to right). Stamens erect included; fila¬ 
ments short; anthers linear, base bilobed. Disc o. Carpels 2, 
distinct; ovules numerous pluri-seriate. Follicles oblique, curved 
ovoid or lanceolate, keeled; orange colour, dehiscing along upper 
edge. Seeds few, ellipsoid, in a scarlet aril. Species 35, tropical 
Asia and Australia, 1 in Madagascar. 
