70 BixacecB. \Scoiopia. 



longed to meet in centre and form false dissepiments), ovules r, 

 few or numerous ; fruit an indchiscent berry, rarely 3-valved ; 

 seeds few, with or without an aril, embryo with foliaceous 

 cotyledons in oily endosperm. 



Pet. without an adnata scale {Flacourticc). 

 Fl. bisexual, with petals 



Stam. indefinite i. ScoLOPiA. 



Stam. 5 2. Erythrospermum. 



Fl. dicEcious, pet. o 



Spinous. Sep. slightly imbricate . . 3. Flacourtia. 



Not spinous. Sep. valvate . . . .4. Aberia. 

 Pet. with an adnate scale within {PangiecE) 



Cal. undivided 5. Trichadenia. 



Sep. 5 6. Hydnocarpus. 



With the exception of one Scolopia^ all our species are inhabitants of 

 the low country only, of which four are confined to the humid and one to 

 the dry region respectively, and the rest occur in both. 



CocJilospenmim Gossypium, DC, Thw. Enum. 41. Kinihiriya or 

 Ela-imbul, S., Koiigtt, T. This is frequently found on rocky hills in the dry 

 districts, but usually near the temples so often placed in such localities, 

 and planted for the sake of the large splendidly golden-yellow flowers 

 which are used for offerings. This is called Cistus lobatus by Moon 

 (Cat. 42). It is considered to be native to the dry hills of Central India, 

 whence it has been introduced to other parts of the East. There are 

 specimens in Hermann's herb., and it is Bombax gossypi7ium, L. (Fl, 

 Zeyl. n, 222), 



Bixa Orella7ia^ L. is included in Thw. Enum. p. 16, and is C. P, 2821' 

 It is the annatto dye-plant, and called KaJia by the Sinhalese, who often 

 grow it in their gardens, but more for the ornament of its pretty pink or 

 white flowers than for the colouring matter of its seeds. It is figured in 

 Bedd. Fl. Sylv. t. 79, and is said there to be quite naturalised in the 

 Madras Presidency. A native of tropical America. 



I. SCOIiOFIA, Schreb. 



Trees, usually with woody spines ; 1. without stipules ; 

 fl, bisexual ; sep, 4-6 ; pet, 4-6, smaller than sep., imbricate ; 

 stam. numerous, inserted on expanded receptacle, connective 

 produced beyond anth. ; ov, i -celled, with 3 parietal placentas, 

 ovules few, pendulous ; fruit a berry, surrounded at base by 

 persistent sep., pet, and stam,, 2-4-seeded, — Sp. 15; 4 in 

 Fl. B. Ind. 



Fruit green when ripe. 



Leaves acuminate-caudate, 2^-4^ in. . , , i, S, acuminat.\. 



Leaves not acuminate, 1-2 in 2, S. crassipes. 



Fruit bright scarlet 3. S, G/ERTNERI, 



I. S. acuminata, Clos ifi Ann. Sc. A^ai. ser. 4, viii. 251 (1857). 

 XLatukenda, S. 



