114 Materials for a Flora of the Malayan Peninsula. 



Sepals combined into a cup, its moutli entire 

 at first, but irregularly toothed on expan- 

 sion. 



Flowers large ; stamens numerous, free 7. Pangimn. 

 Flowers small ; stamens united in a 



column bearing 5 antliers ... 8. Bijparosa. 



1. BiXA, Linn, 



A tree. Leaves simple ; stipules minute. Flmvers in terminal 

 pan 2-sexual. Sepals 5, imbricate, deciduous. Petals .5, contorted 



in bud. Anthers opening by 2 terminal pores. Ovary 1-celIed ; style 

 slender, curved, stigma notched ; ovules many, on 2 parietal placentas. 

 Capsule loculicidally 2-valved, placentas on the valves. Seeds many, 

 f unicle thick, testa pulpy ; alburaeu fleshy ; embryo large, cotyledons flat. 



1. B. Orellana, Linn. A small tree. Leaves cordate, acuminate, 

 glabrous; length 5 to 7 in., breadth 3 to 5 in, petiole 1"5 to 2'5. 

 Floivers in short terminal branched cymes, 2 in. in diam., purple or 

 white. Capsule compressed-ovoid, softly prickly, 1'5 in. long ; seeh co- 

 vered with coloured pulp. Bl. Bijdr. 55 ; Roxb. Fl. Ind. II, 31 ; Miq. 

 FL Ind. Bat. I, Pt. 2, p. 107; Hook. fil. Fl. Br. Ind. I, 190. 



Cultivated widely in the tropics ou account of the dye (Arnatto) 

 yielded by the testa of its seeds. 



2. ScoLOPiA, Schreber. 



Ti^ees, spinous in India, spines often compound. Leaves alternate, 

 •entire ; stipulas minute or 0. Flowers small, racemed, axillary, 2-sexaal. 

 Sejjals 4-6, slightly imbricate in bud. Petals 4-6, subsimilar, imbricate 

 in bud. Stamens mun J with a row of glands outside them; anthers 

 ovoid, opening by slits, connective, produced into a terminal appendage. 

 Ovary l-celled; style erect, stigma entire or lobed ; ovules few, on 3 or 4 

 parietal placentas. Berry 2-4-seeded. Seeds with long fanicles, testa 

 hard ; cot3ledous foliaceous. — Distrib. Species about 15 ; Australian, 

 Asiatic, and Afx'ican. 



S. uHiNANTHERA, Clos in Ann. So. Nat. Ser. IV, Vol. 8, p. 252. A 

 tree ; young branches puberulous. Leaves sub-coriaceous, ovate-lanceolate 

 to lanceolate, shortly acuminate, obscurely and minutely glandular-tooth- 

 ed, the base usually rounded, glabrous, shining; nerves about 7 pairs, 

 faint ; length 35 to 5 in. ; breadth 1'75 in. to 2'o ; petiole biglandular at 

 the apex, "35 long. Racemes axillary and terminal, pubescent, bracteolate, 

 3-4 in., long. Flowers on tomentose bracteolate pedicels. Sepals 4, ovate- 

 lanceolate, tomentose externally. Petals 4, larger than the sepals, rotund, 

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