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BlXA ORELLANA. HEART-LEAVED BlXA, 



or Anotta. 



jit. -?Ii. jk.^t.Jit. jJt..>Jl.^i. •sk..^»..»!i.J?t.J>!«.j&.jJi. *'«. 



C/tf/> a«i/ Order, 



POLYANDRIA MoNOGYNIA. 



Generic Charatler. 

 Cor. 10-petala. Ca/. 5-dentatus. C2/>/ hifpida, 2-vaIvis. 



Specific Name and Synonyms. 



BIX A Orellana. Sp. PL 730. /?«V£. 2. 580. Willi. 2. 1154. 



Mar/. Mill. Dicl. G<ert. FrucJ. 1. 292. /. 61./. 3. Hor/. 



A>zt>. <?aVV. a//. 3. p. 296. 

 BIX A. f/or/. Cliff. 2ii. Brown. Jam. 254. 

 BIXA Oviedi. Cluf. Exot. 74. Z?a«£. #//?. 1. pan 2. p. 440. 

 MITELLA americana maxima tincloria. Tourn. Lift. 242. 

 ORLEANA. f. ORELLANA folliculis lappaceis. Pluk. Aim. 



272. Phytog. 2 09. f. 4 . 

 URUCU <S7fc2«,? ////?. 2. p. 52. /. 181./. 1. 

 ROCU Merian Surin. 44. /. 44. 

 ACHIOTL Hern. Mex. 74. 

 PIGMENTARIA Rumph Amboyn. 2. 79. /. 19. 

 ARNOTTA SHRUB. Hughes Barbad. 202. Bancroft Guian. 



p. 27. 

 Arbor mexicana, fructu caftanese, coccifera. Bauh. Pin. 419. 



Raj. Hiji. 1771. 

 Arbor finium Regundorum. Dalech.Hijl.\%%\. 



Bixa Orellana is a handfome ftove fhrub from its fine green 

 foliage, though it very rarely produces any flowers in this 

 country : Miller remarks that he had feveral of thefe plants 

 jeven or eight feet high, with ftrong ftems and large heads, 

 but that only one produced flowers, nor had he heard of its 

 flowering in any of the gardens in Europe. 



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