BIXACEJE 



VIOLACE/E. 



See Vol. I p. 20. 



BIXACE/E. 



Trees with alternate stipulate leaves. Sepals and 

 petals 4 to 6, stamens indefinite, or not. Ovary one- 

 celled. 



Species about 200, chiefly tropical. 



KEY TO THE GENERA. 



Flowers in spikes ; petals small ; stamens many . . scolopia. 



Flowers axillary ; petals ^ inch, each with a scale nearly as long 

 lying in it ; stamens as many ; fruit large grooved from apex 

 to base hydnocarpus. 



SCOLOPIA. F.B.I. 14 II. 



A small genus in Asia, Africa and Australia. 



Scolopia crenata CIos. ; KB. I. i 191, II 3. A medium 

 sized tree. Young branches brown, with rough bark 

 and many small lenticels. Leaves ovate, 4 by 2 inches, 

 the margin indented with shallow and irregular serra- 

 tures from near the base to the obtuse or short acuminate 

 tip, glabrous on both sides ; lateral nerves 6 to 8 pairs. 

 Flowers in axillary simple or compound racemes ; 

 pedicels % inch. Calyx tube ^^ inch, narrow tubular, 

 obconic above % inch ; sepals and petals 5, each about 

 5^ by 5^ inch. Stamens numerous, straight, in apparently 

 more than two rows, white ; anthers small round. Ovary 

 glabrous, one-celled in early fruit ovoid ; style thick 

 J^ inch or J3 inch, stigma three-lobed. Ovules numerous, 

 anatropous, erect, from 3 or 4 parietal-placentas, t. 287, 



Nilgiris ; Coonoor, common on Lamb's Rock Road at 6,000 

 feet. Fyson 6205. 



Gen, Disi, Western side of S. India. 



