372 NATURAL HISTORY OF PLANTS. 
It cannot be denied that the organization of the Ochnacee 
give them the greatest analogy with Rutacee, of which they 
might possibly be considered a tribe. It is true they have not 
glandular punctuations, they do not contain odoriferous essen- 
tial oil, they have stipules, the flowers are destitute of glandular 
disk, and in their fruit the endocarp, when it is capsular, does not 
separate from the exocarp; but these are characters which may 
possibly be wanting in the Æwfaceæ, and which have not much 
value in themselves. The functional organization of the gynæceum 
in the Ochnaceæ is, moreover, much more similar to that of the 
Rutaceæ than is generally supposed. Certain Hypericacee have ap- 
parent analogies with the Ochuacce ; but their leaves are opposite 
and odoriferous. Perhaps the Dilleniacce of those genera with yellow 
imbricated petals, independent carpels, and fleshy fruit, are more 
closely allied to the Ochnacee than they are said to be. Crossosoma 
seems also to nearly approach the Ochnaceæ with independent car- 
pels, and certain Simarubee. But where this great analogy presents 
itself, the Dilleniacee have different leaves from those of the Ochnacee, 
arillate seeds, and a small embryo situated towards the summit of an 
abundant fleshy albumen. 
We have seen how! Zernstremiacee, to which the genus Pæci- 
landra has been attributed, is distinguished from Ochnacee, only by 
unimportant characters it is true. The same may be said of those 
separating Ochnaceæ from certain Violacee, such as the Sauvagesie. 
It is not without strong reasons that these latter have been classed 
by some authors’ in the same group with Zuæemburgiæ, and perhaps 
they are as well placed there as among the Ochnaceæ. The Luvem- 
burgie axe always distinguished from the Sauvagesiæ by “ their simple 
anthers dehiscing by two short pores,’ not connivent round the gynæ- 
ceum, and, by the very different character of the staminal filaments.” 
It may be admitted to a certain point, in consequence of what has 
been said, and by the comparing of the vegetative organs, the 
leaves, &c., of certain species of Rinorea with Ochne, that these latter 
represent a regular form, with independent carpels, of the arbo- 
rescent Violacee. The woody Cistacee, so nearly allied to Violacce, 
have, for the same reason, some aflinity with the Ochuacce. 

See p. 256. 
See LINDL., Veg. Kingd., 348.—Tr. & Pu, in Ann. Sc. Nat., sér. 4, xviii. 275. 
Except Wallacea (B, H., Gen., 316). 
