366 NATURAL HISTORY OF PLANTS. 
provided with bracts, the divisions bearing small groups of flowers, 
frequently cymes with articulate pedicels. 
Ochna leucophlæos. 

Fia. 381. Fra. 382. 
Longitudinal section of flower. Gynæceum and stamen (£). 
In several species of Owratea, the flowers are here and there 
tetramerous and the carpels four to six in number. In others the 
ovule is surmounted at the chalaza by an arillate dilatation taking 
Ochna mozambicensis, 

Fia. 383. Fra. 384. 
Fruit. Longitudinal section of fruit. 
the form of a hook.! This fact is especially noticeable in certain 
Asiatic and particularly in Oceanian species, having axillary fasci- 
culate flowers, and of which the genus Brackenridgea has been made.’ 

1 We have already stated this fact in certain 2 A, Gray, Unit.-St. Expl. Exp. Bot., i. 
African species, as O. Duparquetiana (Gomphia 361, t. 42.—B. H., Gen., 318, 998, n. 3.—F. 
Duparquetiana M. BN., in Adansonia, ix.  Muezz., Fragm. Phyt. Austral. v. 29.—WaAtx?., 
77). Ann, iv. 421. 
