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Seeds albuminous or exalbuminous. — Shrubs or trees, with alternate 
simple stipulate glabrous not dotted shining leaves; flowers usually 
panicled, often showy. Distrib. Tropical, mostly American. Species 
140. 
1. OCHNA, Schreb. 
Sepals 5, oblong, persistent, free, imbricate. Petals 5, hypogynous, 
ob ovate-c uneat e. Torus thick, 5-lobed. Stamens indefinite, hypo- 
gynous ; filaments filiform ; anthers 'basifixed, splitting at the top of the 
sides. Ovary deeply 5-lobed ; ovules solitary ; styles united below, 
free at the tip ; stigmas capitate. Carpels indehiscent in fruit, dry 
or fleshy, seated on the tumid torus. — Trees or shrubs, with alternate 
simple coriaceous glabrous leaves and corymbose showy white or yellow 
flowers. Distrib. Tropics of Old World and Cape. Species 25. 
1. O. mauritiana, Lam. ; JDO. Prod. i. 935. An erect tree, 15-20 
feet high, glabrous in all its parts. Leaves short-petioled, oblong, 
denticulate or subentire, 3-4 inches long, acute, shining ; stipules ovate, 
acuminate, deciduous. Flowers in copious ample corymbs, before the 
leaves appear or contemporary with the young leaves ; pedicels inch 
long, articulated at the middle. Sepals coriaceous, oblong, obtuse, 
under ^ inch long. Petals whitish, twice as long as the sepals. 
Stamens 20-30, as long as the calyx. Cocci ovoid, coriaceous, usually 
only 1 or 2 out of the 5 developed into fruit. 
Mauritius ; woods of Pouce, Montagne Ory, Riviere Noire, etc. Endemic . Bois 
Bouquet. Bois Jasmin. 
Order XXIV. BURSERACEiE. 
Flowers regular, hermaphrodite or polygamous. Sepals 3-5, deltoid, 
joined at the base or higher. Petals 3-5, free, hypogynous, valvate or 
imbricate. Disk prominent, annular. Stamens twice as many as the 
petals ; filaments free ; anthers oblong, 2-celled, slit down the side. 
Ovary 3-5-celled ; style entire ; stigma capitate : ovules 2 in a cell. 
Fruit dry or drupaceous ; 1-5 cells with horny endocarp and 1 seed 
in each. Seed pendulous with a membranous testa; albumen none. — 
Balsamiferous trees or shrubs, with large petioled exstipulate alter- 
nate imparipinnate leaves and copious small panicled flowers. Distrib. 
Bound the world in the tropics. Species 150. 
Sepals and petals 4-5 each 1. Bursera. 
Sepals and petals 3 each 2. Canarium. 
1. BURSEBA, Linn. 
Flowers in our plant hermaphrodite. Calyx minute, 4-5-partite. Petals 
4-5, lanceolate, hypogynous. Disk prominent, annular. Stamens 
8-10, inserted at the base of the disk ; filaments short, flattened ; 
anthers minute, oblong. Ovary 3-5-celled , style very short ; stigma 
capitate ; ovules 2 in a cell. Fruit a hard capsule, finally dehiscing, 
