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AUodeia.] xiii. vioLACEiE. (Hook. f. & Thorns.) 189 



Sect. nX Scyphellandra, Thwaites (Gen.). Stamens included; 

 ttthers free. Bisk reduced to 5 scales, one at the back of each anther. 



^1* ^V virgrata, Thwaites (Scyphellandra) ; twigs pubescent with 

 curled hairs, leaves small petioled ovate or oblong toothed glabrous obtuse 

 at both ends, 06 



Hot dry parts of Ceylon, Thwaites. 



A small shrub. Leaves very variable, |-14 in. ; petiole pubescent. Stipules nnnnte, 

 ^T^ceolate. ^ Flowers subsolitary, axillary, peduncled or subsessile, | in. diara., whitish. 

 ntm sessile, linear-oblong, twice as long as the broadly ovate obtuse ciliolate sepals, 

 Ahtkers subsessile, tip of the connective petaloid, much exceeding the cells, ovate, sub- 

 *^ k ' ^^^^y small, glabrous ; style slender, stigma minutely 3-lobed ; ovules one on 

 each placenta. CapstUe 3-valved. Seeds subglobose. 



Order XIV, BIXINEiE, (By Hooker f. & Thomson.) 



Trees or shrubs. Leaves alternate ; stipules minute or 0. ' Injlorescence 

 janous. Flowers regular, 1-2-sexual. ScjmIs 4-5, rarely 2-6, imbricate, 

 free or connate and bursting irregularly, usually deciduous. Petals 4-5 or 0, 

 "Doricate or contorted in bud, deciduous. Stamens usually hypogynous ; 

 withers 2-.celled, bursting by slits or pores. Bisk thickened, often glandular. 

 wary u rarely several-celled ; style and stigmas free or united ; ovules 

 Wetal, amphitropous or anatropous. Fruit dry or fleshy, indchiscent or 

 ^T^'^fi valves bearing the seeds in the middle. Seeds arillate or testa 

 P^W, albumen fleshy ; embryo axile, cotyledons foliaceous often cordate, 

 -iJiSTiaB. Chiefly tropical; genera 30; species 160. 



ann^^ I- BlxesB. Petals broad, contorted, without a scale or basal 

 Ppeudage. Anthers bursting by pores or short slits. 



^apsule almost 3-5-celled. Leaves compound 1. Cochlospermum. 



Upsule 2.valved. Leaves simple . 1* Bixa. 



Kn'L'^^ F- Placourtiew. Petals small, imbricate or 0. Anthers short, 

 •JUrsting by slits. 



Jlowers 2-sexual. Petals 4-6. Stamens indefinite ... 2. Scoloma. 



PI *"8 2-sexual. Petals 5-6. Stamens 5-6 .... • 3. Erythrospebmum. 



£,ower8 usuMlly dioecious. Petals 0. Ovary 2-8-celled . . 4. Flacourtia. 



V\Z^^ ^;*»ciou8. Petals 0. Ovary 1-celled. Seeds glabrons 5. Xylosma. 



'o^era dicecious. Petals 0. Ovary 1-celled. Seeds hairy 6. Abeeia. 



orl!?f-^^^- ^angriesB. i^fo^-ers dicecious. i>eto?s with an adnate scale 

 •^ t>asal appendage. 



iS^ connate. Stamens very many 7. Gynocardia. 



£rr°''°^^<^- Stamens 5 . 8. Trichadenia. 



°«Paisfree, Stamens 5-8 9. Hydnocabpus. 



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1. COCHX.OSPSSMVM, Kuntb. 



^S ?^ '^'^b^' juice yellow or red. Leaves digitately lobeJ or divided. 

 tort?>'^«' yellow, 2-sexual. Sepah 6. deciduous. Petals 5, large, con- 

 poir„'" bud. Stamens many, on an eglandular disk ; anther-cells with 

 Cp? short slits. Ovart/ glotose, almost 3-5-celled ; style simple stigma 

 SoSJi ^^'^es very many, on 3-5 parietal placentas. -(7a/««^ 3-5-valved, 

 Z^S^r.'^^^^'^^oviS. ^ Seeds cochleate; testa _ hard, woolly; embryo 

 ^— -UiSTEiB. About 11 species, all tropical. .^,Ji*l^^,'^ - • 



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