Ochna integerrima (Lour.) Merr.

Deciduous undershrub, shrub, or treelet up to 12 m and 45 cm ø. Stipules 5-8 by 2-3 mm. Leaves mostly obovate-oblong or (obovate-) lanceolate, rarely obovate or linear-lanceolate, 6-20(-25) by 2-7 cm, mostly acuminate, sometimes acute or obtuse at apex, mostly acute, sometimes obtuse at base, margin finely denticulate; petiole 2-5 mm. Inflorescences compound, many-flowered; rachis ½-1½(-4) cm; branches 1-3-flowered, monochasial; pedicels 2-4 cm, in fruit up to 5 cm, the basal 2-8 mm persistent. Torus ½-1 mm high, 1½-2½ 54 mm ø, in fruit up to 6 mm high, 10 mm ø. Sepals 5, ovate to ovate-oblong, 10-16 by 4-9 mm. Petals 5-6(-10), obovate, 15-25 by 8-15 mm, tapering at base or subunguiculate. Stamens (25-)30-60(-75); filaments 2½-7 mm, unequal, the outermost longest; anthers 4-6 by 0.4-0.8 mm. Ovaries 6-10(-15), 0.7-1.1 by 0.5-0.7 mm; style 10-15 by c. ½ mm, in fruit up to 20 mm; stigmas sometimes on up to 1 mm long branches. Fruits mostly 2-3, up to 11 by 8 mm.

From sea-level up to 1200 m in hilly country, in moist or dry, deciduous forests, often of a mixed Dipterocarp type, on loamy, sandy, or rocky soils. Tall specimens are found near river banks, small shrubs near seashores. Flowering shortly before or during development of new leaves: in the northern part of the area mainly in Febr. and March, in the southern part generally a little earlier, but less restricted, especially in the Malay Peninsula.

Uses. The bark tastes bitter and yields a digestive tonic (Cochinchina). The wood is recorded as used for huts in the Andamans.

Can be grown by seedlings.