370 NATURAL HISTORY OF PLANTS. 
warm regions of South America, and are only distinguished by incon- 
siderable characters. They are: Godoya, with sepals accompanied by 
axillary tongues, stamens ten or indefinite in number, ramified in- 
florescences, and simple or pinnate leaves; Cespedesia, with sepals 
naked within, the other characters being nearly those of Godoya ; 
Blastemanthus, which has flowers arranged in racemes, with a calyx 
accompanied without by imbricated bracts analogous to sepals, and 
round ten fertile stamens a variable number of subulate staminodes ; 
Pecilandra, which has five fertile stamens, polymorphous stami- 
nodes, and ramified inflorescences ; finally, Wad/acea, with flowers 
nearly like those of Pæcilandra as to the five fertile stamens and 
exterior staminodes, but solitary or geminate in the axils of the 
entire leaves. 

De Canpotrg,’ in 1811, considered this small family distinct. 
Before him pe Jussieu’ placed Ochna among the group allied to 
Magnoliacee and Ouratea among the Gen. incerte sedis. The 
family, adopted by most botanists,* was only represented at first by 
the genera of the Ouratee and Gomphiæ series, to which Mique.‘ 
added the genus Zetramerista. In 1846, Piancnon’ extended the 
limits of the group by adding the two tribes Luthemidiee and Luxem- 
burgieæ ; the former only being then represented by the genus 
Euthemis, the latter by the four genera Zurembergia, Godoya, Cespe- 
desia, and Blastemanthus.  BeNTHAM and Hooxnr,’ adopting the 
same limits for the Ochnacee family, have added to its last tribe the 
new genus Wallacea of Servcn, and Pœcilandra before connected 
with Zernstremiacee. In introducing, as we have done, Bracken- 
ridgea in the genus Ouratea, the number of types generically pre- 
served is eleven, including about a hundred and thirty species. 
The distinctive characters of the three series are the following :— 
J. Ouratrkæ.—Gynæceum with carpels independent in the ovary, 
or ovary 2—15-celled, with one ovule in each cell, subtransverse or 

1 In Ann. Mus,, xvii. 398; Prodr., i. (1824), 
735. 
2 Gen. (1789), 232. 
or Mesia (GxærIN., Æruct., i. 344, t. 70), of 
which Brntu. & Hoox. say: “ Gen, fid. PLAN- 
CHONII falsum est, ex icone floris erron. JZorti 
3 A.S. H., in Mém. Mus., x. 129.—LinD1., 
Introd., ed. 2, 129; Veg. Kingd. (1846), 474, 
Ord. 178, 
* Fl. Ind.-Bat., Suppl. (1860). 
5 In Hook. Lond. Journ., v. 584. 
6 He excluded Walkera (SCHREB., Gen., 378) 
malab. et fructu imperfecto anal, falsa Garr- 
NEKI fictum. Cf. Hook, Lond, Journ, v. 
593.” 
7 Gen., 316, Ord. 41. 
8 Tur. in Ann. Sciences Nat., sér. 3, vili. 
(1847). 
