OCHNACE ZL. 367 
In O. Theophrasta; also distinguished generically under the name 
Wolkensteinia ; the flower presents outside the five petals eight 
or ten coloured sepals* instead of five. 
Beside Ouratea is found Ævasia, which instead of totally inde- 
pendent carpels has them united below into a 2-5-lobed ovary and 
an androceum formed of four, five, or an indefinite number of sta- 
mens ; Zetramerista, which has tetramerous, tetrandrous flowers with 
four-lobed ovary; and Ochna (figs. 381-384), whose name this 
family bears, but which may be considered as a type derived from 
Ouratea, having flowers with an indefinite number of stamens, a 
gynæceum and fruit formed of independent carpels, like those of 
Ouratea, from three to fifteen in number. 
II. EUTHEMIS SERIES. 
The flowers of Zulhemis (fig. 385) are externally similar to those 
of Ouratea and Ochna, with five unequal, ciliate, imbricated sepals, 
more or less persistent, and five alternate, im- 
bricated or contorted petals. The androceum 
is composed of five fertile, alternipetalous 
stamens, formed of a very short filament and 
two-celled rostrate anther, dehiscing at the 
summit by a pore; and five sterile stamens, 
alternating with the preceding, 
partly wanting. The gynæceum is inserted 
upon the apex of the receptacle slightly pro- 
longed into a cone; it is composed of an ovary 
with five alternipetalous incomplete cells, 
tapering above into a subulate style, stigma- 
tiferous, simple or scarcely dilated at the apex. Towards the internal 
angle of each cell are two descendent, anatropous ovules, with 
micropyle directed upwards and outwards. The fruit is a small 
Euthemis leucocarpa. 
which may be 

Fia. 385. 
Diagram. 

1 Linp. ex Hook. F., in Bot, Mag., t. 5642. 
—H*er., in Hortic. Franc., xxi. 15, t. 1. 
? There are five more interior quincuncially 
arranged, exactly alternating with the petals; 
then outside these three others similarly imbri- 
cated, two of them posterior. The petals are con- 
torted, and the five shortest stamens superposed 
to them are inserted a little lower and outside 
the five others. 
3 ReG@et,, in Gartenfl., xiv. (1865), 131, t. 471. 
4 Jack, Mal. Mise., in Hook, Bot. Mise. 
ii. 69.—Watt,, in Rorb, Fl. Ind., ii. 303.— 
Enpu,, Gen. n. 5961,—B. H., Gen. 319, 
n. 6. 
