. The families of flowering plants. Plants; Phanerogams. 174 FAMILIES OF FLOWEEING PLANTS £./M-f Fig. 153, Flower of Ouratea speciab- ilis and fruit of O. elegans. Redrawn from Engler. produce valuable timber, and many of them, as Dillenia speciosa, have handsome flowers, rendering them desirable for greenhouse cultivation (see Fig. 152). Family Eucryphiaceae. Eucryphia Family. Consists of a single genus, Eucryphia, which presents rather anomalous characters, and has been placed by some authors in the Eose Family, and by others with the St. Johnsworts. There are four species, two in Chile and
. The families of flowering plants. Plants; Phanerogams. 174 FAMILIES OF FLOWEEING PLANTS £./M-f Fig. 153, Flower of Ouratea speciab- ilis and fruit of O. elegans. Redrawn from Engler. produce valuable timber, and many of them, as Dillenia speciosa, have handsome flowers, rendering them desirable for greenhouse cultivation (see Fig. 152). Family Eucryphiaceae. Eucryphia Family. Consists of a single genus, Eucryphia, which presents rather anomalous characters, and has been placed by some authors in the Eose Family, and by others with the St. Johnsworts. There are four species, two in Chile and two in southern Australia and Tasmania; and oddly enough, one species in each of these pairs has pinnate leaves, the other simple entire leaves. All are trees or tall shrubs, having showy solitary flow- ers with four Ar five sepals, four or five petals, and innumerable stamens; the ovary is 5-12-celled, becoming in fruit a woody capsule containing winged seeds. One of the Tasmanian spe- cies, E. Billardieri, is a most beautiful forest tree, attaining lofty pro- portions, and at certain seasons is covered with large white fiowers. Family Ochnaceae. Ochna Family. Includes 17 genera and over 200 species, trees or shrubs of exclusively tropical distribution. Their bark contains a yellow coloring matter, and is also very astrin- gent, in consequence of which several Species furnish tonics. The flowers are generally large and conspicuous, having the parts in fives, and the stamens often turned to one side; the carpels of the ovary are situated upon an enlarged base or recep- tacle, which becomes fleshy in fruit, like that of the strawberry. The largest genus is Ouratea, chiefly of "West Indian distribu- tion, some species of which are used as greenhouse plants (see Fig 153). Family Caryocaraceae. Souari-nut family. Consists of two gen- era, Garyocar and Anthodiscus, the former with 10, the latter with 3 species, all South American trees. The Souari-nut, Garyocar nuciferum, may
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