XXXIV. OCHNACEiE. 



I. OUEATEA SERIES. 



Ovhna, from which this small family has received its name, is not 

 the simple type of it ; but it is met with in most of the species of 

 Ouratea 1 (figs. 378-380), which have regular hermaphrodite penta- 



Ouratea decora. 





Fig. 378. 

 Flower and bud. 



(Ifi! 



Fig. 380. 



Long. sect, of flower (\). 



merous flowers, with diplostemonous androceum. On their convex 

 receptacle are generally inserted five quincuncially imbricated sepals 

 and five alternate subsessile petals, 2 contorted in prsefloration. 

 The stamens are attached above the perianth, superposed, five to 

 the sepals and five to the petals, each formed on a very short or 

 subnil free filament and basifixed elongated erect anther, with two 

 lateral or slightly introrse lobes, theiij wall quite covered with trans- 

 verse unequal wrinkles, and each dehiscing at the summit by a kind 

 of pore by which the pollen escapes. 3 After bearing the androceum 



1 Aura,., Ghiicm., i. 397, t. 152 (1775).— 

 II. Bn., in Adansonia, x. fasc. 12. — Jabotapita 

 l*i.( m., Gen., 41, 32 (1703). — Sophisteques 

 COHHBBS., niss., ex J., Gen., 282 (1789). — 

 Gomphia SOHREB., Gen., i. 291 (1789).— DC, 

 I'rodr., i. 73(5; in Ann. Mm., xvii. 414, t. 6-10. 

 — Tvki'., in Diet. Sc. Nat., Atl., 1. 121. — Endl., 

 Gen., n. 5958. — Schnizi., Iconogr., t. 2 IS. — 

 B. II., Gfe».,S18, 993, n. 2.— Cittorhynchus W„ 



mss. (ex Endl.). — Correia Vklloz., in Roem. 

 Scrijyt., 106, t. 6 (ex Endl.). — Philomeda 

 NoiiONH. (ex Dup.-Th., Gen. Nov. Madag., 



17). 



- Yellow, sometimes very odoriferous. 



3 Ovoid ; three folds ; in water ovoid, three 

 bands with papillae. " Ochna atropurjmrea, 

 Gomphia fimbriata Boj." (H. Moiil., in Ann. 

 sc. Nat., ser. 2, iii. 339). 



