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simple, terminal; ovules solitary in each cell (Ochna, Gomphia, &c.), or geminate (Eu- 

 themis), or numerous (Luxemburg ia, Godoya, &c.), ascending, rarely pendulous, raphe 

 ventral, and micropyle superior. FRUIT of 3-10 1 -seeded drupes, whorled on the 

 enlarged gynophore (Ockna, Gomphia, &c.), or 2-4-lobed, 1-4-seeded, coriaceous, 

 indehiscent (Elvasia), or fleshy with 5 nucules (Euthemis), or a 1 -celled capsule, 

 coriaceous (Luxemburgia) , or woody, 2-5-celled, and septicidal (Godoya., Poecilandra, 

 &c.). SEEDS with fleshy albumen (Luxemburgia, Poscilandra, Cespedesia, Euthemis, 

 &c.), or exalbuminous (Ochna, Gomphia, Elvasia, &c.) ; testa usually membranous, 

 sometimes winged or margined (Luxemburgia, Pcecilandra). EMBRYO large, sub- 

 cylindric, straight, or very rarely curved (Brackenridgea) ; cotyledons plano-convex 

 (Ochna, Gomphia, &c.) or linear (Luxemburgia, Pcecilandra, &c.) ; radicle inferior or 

 superior. 



PRINCIPAL GENERA. 



Ochna. Gomphia. Euthemis. Luxemburgia. 



Godoya. Blastemanthus. Wallacea. Poecilandra. 



[From Bentham and Hooker's ' Genera Plantarum ' : 



TRIBE I. OCHNE^;. Ovary 2-10-celled, cells 1-ovuled. Seeds exalbuminous. Ochna, 

 Gomphia, Urachenridgea, Elvasia, Tetramerista. 



TRIBE II. EUTHEMIDE.S;. Ovary incompletely 5-celled, cells 2-ovuled. Berry with 5 

 pyrenes. Seeds albuminous. Euthemis. 



TRIBE III. LUXEMBURGIEJ;. Ovary excentric, 2-5- or 1-celled, cells oo -ovuled. Cap- 

 sule many-seeded. Seeds albuminous. Luxemburgia, Blastemanthus, Godoya, Cespedesia, 

 Wallacea, Pcecilandra. ED.] 



Ochnacece, which are near Rutacea, Diosmea, and Zanthoryleee, are separated from them by their 

 stipulate not dotted leaves, neither annular nor glandular disk, acute gynobasic style, and never free 

 carpels. They differ from Simarubece in their disk, filaments without scales, anthers opening by terminal 

 pores, and style undivided at the base. 



Ochnacets are dispersed over all tropical regions ; the capsular-fruited genera are American, the 

 drupaceous Asiatic and South African. Ochnacece are bitter, like Simarubea, but their bitterness is 

 tempered by an astringent principle. The aromatic root and the leaves of Gomphia anyustifolia, an Indian 

 tree, are employed as tonics and stomachics. The bark of G. hexasperma, a Brazilian shrub, is astringent, 

 and very useful for the cure of ulcers caused by the stings of flies. The berries of G.jabotapita, a tree of 

 the Antilles and Brazil, are edible, like tho?e of the Bilberry ; its seeds are oily. 



LVII. BURSERACE^E? Kunth. 



[TREES or SHRUBS, often lofty, abounding in resinous or oily secretions. LEAVES 

 alternate, very rarely opposite, exstipulate, 8- (rarely 1-) foliolate or imparipinnate ; 

 leaflets rarely pellucid- dotted, the lowest pair sometimes stipuliform. FLOWERS , 

 often small, racemed or panicled, regular. CALYX 3-5-tid or -partite, imbricate or 

 valvate in "bud. PETALS 3 to 5, erect or spreading, free or rarely connate, deciduous, 

 imbricate or valvate in bud. DISK annular or cupular, rarely obsolete, free or adnate to 



1 This order is not described in the original, but is and disposition of the genera are taken from Bentham 

 mentioned as an ally of Terebinthacea ; the characters and Hooker's ' Genera Plantarum.' ED. 



