190 xiv. BIXINEJ3. (Hook. f. & Thorns.) [Ctochlospermum. 



1. C. Cossypium, DC. Prodr. i. 527 ; leaves palmately 3-5-lobed 

 tomentose beneath, lobes acute entire. Wall. Cat. 1S43 ; Wiylil in U<><>k. 

 Lot. Misc. ii. 357, Suj^pl t. 18 ; IF. <fc A. Prodr. 87 ; Planch, in Honk. Kew 

 Journ. Bot. vi. 306. Bombax gossypium, Linn.; Roxb. FL Ind. iii. 169. 

 ~ Dry hills GARWHAL, BUNDELKUND, BEHAR, ORISSA and the DEKKAN; also com- 

 monly planted near temples. 



A small naked tree ; branchlets tomentose. Leaves 3-8 in. diam., old glabrous ; 

 petiole slender. Flowers 4-5 in. diam., in few-flnwon-d terminal panicles, golden yellow. 

 Sepals silky. Petals obovate, notched. Capsule 2-3 in., 5-lobed. 



1* BZXA, Linn. 



A tree. Leaves simple ; stipules minute. Flowers in terminal panicles, 

 2-suxual. Sepals 5, imbricate, deciduous. ]\inl* 5, contorted in bud. 

 Anthers opening by 2 terminal pores. Ovary 1-celled ; style slender, curved, 

 stigma notched; ovules many, on 2 parietal placentas. C<i/>-il>' loculici- 

 dally 2-valved, })lacentas on the valves. Seeds many, funicle thick, testa 

 pulpy ; albumen fleshy ; embryo large, cotyledons flat. 



B. ORELLANA, L.; Roxb. FL Ind. ii. 31 ; If. <(" A. Prodr. 31. (Anatto.) 



Cultivated throiiLrlmut IMHA, and the tropics generally, for the red dye afforded by 

 the testa. Native of America. 



A small evergreen tree. Leaves 4-8 by 2-5 in., cordate, acuminate, glabrous; 

 petiole slender, 2-3 in. Flowers 2 in. diain., purple or white. Capsule 1 j in., ovoid 

 or subglobose, base intruded, softly prickly. 



2. SCOX.OFXA, Schreber. 



Trees, spinous in India, spines often compound. Leaves alternate, entire ; 

 stipules minute or (>. /''/<>//'* small, racemed, axillary, 2-sexual. >'//^//.s 

 4-6, slightly imbricate in bud. Petal* 4-6, subsimilur, imbricate in bud. 

 Stamens many; anthers ovoid, opening by slits, connective produced. 

 O i'i i'H 1-celled; style erect, stigma entire or lobed ; ovules few, on 3-4 

 parietal placentas. Berry -i l->eedrd. >' < /.< with long funicles, testa hard ; 

 cotyledons foliaceous. DISTRUJ. Species about 15 ; Australian, Asiatic, and 

 African. 



1. S. rhinanthera, Clos. in Ann. Sc. Nat. Ser. 4, viiL 252 ; leaves 

 lanceolate or oblong-lanceolate crenulate 5-plinerved, petiole 2-glandular at 

 the top, racemes pubescent, sepals and petals 4 each, fruit pisiform 2-6- 

 seeded. M />/>"/ /'/. .\'"/. ///'/. i. pt. 2, 107. Phoberos rhinanthera, Benn. 

 PI. Ja>\ liar. 187, t. 39. ]\ macrophylla, W. & A. Prodr. 30. Flacourtia 

 inermis, Wall. Cat. 6673 6-', //, only. 



M AI,V(('.V, (irinith. DISTRIB. Java, Borneo. 



A tree. Leaves 3-6 by l-2 in., coriaceous, shining, base rounded or acute, teeth 

 glandular; petiole 4 in. Racemes 3-4 in. ; flowers 1- or more-braoteate. Sepals downy. 

 Petals twice as long, glabrous, ciliate. Connective of anthers glabrous. Ovary 

 globose. 



2. S. Roxburg'Iiii, Clos. I.e. 250 ; leaves oblong-lanceolate acuminate 

 subcrenate glabrous 3-5-plinerved at the base, petiole 2-glandular at the 

 top or not, racemes softly pubescent, sepals and petals 6 each, fruit olive- 

 formed. Miq. Fl. Ned. Ind. i. pt. 2, 107. Phoberos Roxburghii, Benn. PI. 

 J<n>. Ii<ii\ U)2. Ludia spinosa, Roxb. Fl. Ind. ii. 507. Flacourtia stigma- 

 rota, Wall. Cat. 6678, in part. 



