Ochrocarpus
(from ochros, yellow, and karpos, a fruit; alluding to the colour of the fruits). SYN. Calysaccion. ORD. Guttiferae. A genus comprising about half-a-dozen species of stove trees, natives of Asia, tropical Africa, and the Mascarene Islands. Flowers polygamous, disposed in lateral or axillary short cymes or fascicles; petals four. Leaves opposite or ternately whorled, coriaceous. The species described below is probably the only one yet introduced; it thrives freely in a sandy loam compost. Propagation may be effected by cuttings of the ripened wood, inserted, with the leaves intact, in sand, under a glass, in moist heat.
O. africanus (African). fr. with a brown and thick rind, and a yellow pulp, twice the size of a man's fist, round. l. oblong, acuminated, shining dark green, abounding in a yellow, resinous gum. h. 60ft. Tropical Africa. SYN. Mammea africana.