XXXIV. OCHNACEZÆ. 

I. OURATEA SERIES. 
Ochna, 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' (figs. 378-380), which have regular hermaphrodite penta- 
Ouratea decora. 

Fie, 378. 
Flower 
Fra. 380. 
Long. sect. of flower (3). 
and bud. 
On their convex 
receptacle are generally inserted five quincuncially imbricated sepals 
and five alternate subsessile petals,? contorted in præfloration. 
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, their wall quite covered with trans- 
verse unequal wrinkles, and each dehiscing at the summit by a kind 
of pore by which the pollen escapes.’ After bearing the androceum 
merous flowers, with diplostemonous androceum. 

1 Avs. Guian., i, 397, t. 152 (1775).— 
H. BN., in Adansonia, x. fase. 12.—Jabotapita 
PLum., Gen., 41, 32 (1703). — Sophisteques 
CommMers., mss., ex J., Gen., 282 (1789).— 
Gomphia Scures., Gen., i, 291 (1789).—DC., 
Prodr., 5. 736 ; in Ann, Mus., xvii. 414, t. 6-10. 
—Tvrp., in Dict, Se. Nat., Atl., t. 121.—ENDL., 
Gen., n. 5958.—SCHNIZL., Iconogr., t. 248.— 
B. H., Gen., 318, 993, n. 2.—Cittorhynchus W., 
mss, (ex ENDL.).—Correia VELLOZ., in Ram. 
Script., 106, t. 6 (ex Enpu.). — Philomeda 
Noronu. (ex Dur.-Tn., Gen. Nov. Madag., 
wn): 
2 Yellow, sometimes very odoriferous. 
3 Ovoid; three folds; in water ovoid, three 
bands with papille. “ Ochna atropurpurea, 
Gomphia fimbriata Bos.” (H. MouL., in Aun. 
Se. Nat., sér, 2, iii. 339). 
