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ORDER XIV.—BIXINE/E. Kunth. 
Sepals 4-7, distinct, or cohering at the base: sstivation imbrieated. 
Petals five, hypogynous, resembling the sepals, or none. Stamens hy- 
pogynous, indefinite, distinct, inserted on the discoid torus: anthers 
bilocular. Ovary sessile, l-celled: ovules attached to 2-7, narrow, 
parietal placentz : style single, or 2-4 cleft. Fruit capsular or baccate, 
l-celled, many seeded ; placentz in the middle of the valves. Seeds 
enveloped in pulp. Albumen fleshy, or very thin, including the embryo, 
which is slightly curved: radicle pointing to the hilum: cotyledons fo- 
liaceous.— Leaves alternate, simple, with deciduous stipules. 
, Mr Don is disposed to adopt the name Prockiacee for this order, and to remove 
Biza, with Sloanea and Ablania, to the neighbourhood of the Tiliacee. 
I. BIXA. Linn; Lam. ill. t. 469 ; Gertn. fr. 1. t. 61. 
Sepals 5, orbicular, tuberculate at the base, deciduous. Petals 5, obovate, 
entire.. Stamens numerous, distinct : filaments filiform: anthers ovate. Style 
single, elongated, so compressed at the apex as to be almost ligulate. Cap- 
sule 2-valved: valves prickly on the outside, bearing a linear placenta inter- 
nally along their middle. Seeds 8-10 attached to each placenta, surrounded 
by a farinaceous coloured pulp. Albumen fleshy.—Trees with broad cordate 
leaves, and dichotomous panicles of large flowers. 
112. (1) B. Orellana (Linn.:) leaves cordate, ovate, acuminated, entire or 
angular, free from scales on both surfaces: fruit nearly globose.— DC. prod. 1. 
D. 259; Spr. syst. 2. p. 594; Roxb. fl. Ind. 2. p. 581; Wall.! L. n. 1067 ; 
Wight ! cat. n. 111.—Rumph. Amb. 2. t. 19. 
ORDER XV.—VIOLARIEJE. “DC. j 
Sepals five, persistent ; æstivation imbricated. . Petals hypogynous, 
five, usually withering, generally unequal; æstivation obliquely con- 
volute. Stamens five, alternate with the petals, or occasionally opposite 
to them, inserted on the hypogynous dise or torus : anthers bilocular, 
itrorse, closely approximated or united laterally to each other: fila- 
ments dilated, elongated beyond the anthers ; two of them, in the irre- 
gular flowers, usually with an appendage at the base. Ovary 1-celled, 
with many (rarely one) ovules: style single, usually declinate, with an 
oblique cucullate stigma. Capsule three-valved, loculicide, bearing 
the placenta on the middle of the valves. Embryo straight, erect, in 
the axis of a fleshy albumen.—Leaves alternate, rarely opposite, with 
Persistent stipules and an involute vernation. peti eee, 
I. VIOLA. Linn. ; Lam. ill. t.725; Gaertn. fr. t. 112. 
Sepals unequal, all more or less auricled at the base, erect after flowering. 
etals unequal, convolute in sestivation ; lower one more or less produced 
downwards and backwards into a kind of hollow spur. Stamens very close 
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