ILLUSTRATIONS OF INDIAN BOTANY. — 
markable among all the neighbouring orders, that they would alone suffice to characterize this if 
they were constant.” Dr. Lindley refers Oncoba to Bivinee and Phoberos doubtfully to Fia- 
courtianee, though these genera, are so closely allied, that their principal difference seems to be in 
the presence of petals in the former, and their absence in the latter, In both the stamens are at- 
tached to an expanded torus, in both the anthers are apiculate from the prolongation of the con- 
nectivum, in both the flowers are hermaphrodite, the style long, with a capitate stigma, and in 
both the ovary is 1-celled. The two genera agree besides in their arborious habit, and the cha- 
racter of their foliage To whichever order, therefore the one belongs, the other I conceive must 
of necessity be referred. If therefore the genus Bira and Oncoba canbe correctly associated in 
the same order,which I doubt, I confess myself unable to perceive on what grounds,without taking 
Phoberos with it, Oncoba can be severed from the Flacourtianee. The small number of Indian 
species referable to Bixinee, as it now stands, not permitting me to enter more minutely into 
an examination of the characteristics of the order, I must of necessity leave it as I find it, but 
would suggest to those who have better opportunities, a more careful examination of the 
various genera respectively referred to it and Flacourtianee, than they seem yet to have been 
subjected to, with a view to a more exact determination of their limits. 
Geocrapaicat Distrisution. Biza isa native of America, but has long been natu- 
ralized in India, and so completely on the Malabar Coast, that it is now believed to be origi- 
nally a native of that part of country, it is equally found in the islands of the Eastern Archi- 
pelago. FEchinocarpus and Trichospermum are natives of J ava, and of the former, one species, 
I believe a new one, has been found in the vicinity of Bombay. Onxcoba is a native of Africa, 
nearly all the others are natives of the warmer parts of America and the Mauritius. 
the practice to allow an ounce of annotto toacwt. of cheese ; in Cheshire, 8 dwts. are 
reckoned sufficient for a cheese of 60 lbs. When genuine, it neither affects the taste nor the 
smell of cheese or butter. The Spanish Americans mix annotto with their chocolate, to which 
it gives a beautiful tint.” 
“« At an average of the three years ending with 1831, the annotto entered for home con- 
sumption amounted to 1,24,5283 lbs. a year. Previously to 1832, the duty on flag annotto was 
18s. 8d. a cwt., and on other sorts £5 12s.; but the duty is now reduced to Is, a ewt. on the 
former, and to 4s. on the latter. This judicious and liberal reduction will, we have no doubt, 
be followed by a considerable increase of consumption. The price of flag annotto varies in 
the market from 6d. to ls. per Ib., and of roll from Is. to ls. 6d.” MceCulloch’s Dictionary 
of Commerce, page 41. 
Mr. Huxham a talented and enterprising merchant on the Malabar Coast, attempted the 
duces fruit abundantly, and pulp of good quality. It is employed in this country as in Europe, 
to tinge butter, and a good deal as a dye, for the production of a pale rose colour. The cloth is 
