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GENERA 
I. BIXEÆ. 
1. Bixa L. — Flores hermaphroditi regulares ; receptaculo breviter 
“nvexO. Sepala 5, imbricata petalaque totidem alterna contorto-imbri- 
tata, decidua. Stamina ; filamentis sub gvnæceo insertis, liberis v. ima 
basi polyadelphis; antheris extrorsis, £-locularibus, ad medium indupli- 
Catis ibidemque rimis brevibus (spurie terminalibus) dehiscentibus. 
sérmen liberum , 1-loculare ; stylo elongato, in alabastro recurvo, 
lubuloso, apice sligmatoso obtusissime 2-crenato ; placentis parieta- 
bus 2, lateralibus, Parum prominulis ; ovulis in singulis œ , 2-0 -seria- 
‘im adscendentibus. anatropis ; micropyle extrorsum laterali inferaque. 
Fructus Gpsularis, dense echinalo-setosus v. rarius glaber, lateraliter 
2-Valvis; valvis crassis medio intus seminiferis ; endocarpio solubili. 
Semina  , obovoidea ; funiculo apice in arillum parvum 2-lobum dila- 
0; integumento externo subcarnoso suberoso-granulato; chalaza orbi- 
Culari, demum depressa ; albumine carnoso ; embryonis axilis cotyledo- 
tibus foliaceis latis, sæpe incurvis. — Arbusculse- (succo luteo v. rubro 
“älentes); foliis alternis petiolatis digitinerviis ; stipulis 2, lateralibus, 
Gaucis ; floribus in racemos terminales compositos cymiferos dispo- 
NUS; pedicellis sub Calyce sæpe 5-glandulosis. (America trop.) — 
Vid. p, 965. 
9 : sn 
“ Oncoba Forsx, 1 — Flores polygami, monœæci v. diœæci. Sepala 
 ê é sel 
24 YA #9.-arab., 103 (1775). — j., Gen.,  — Lundia Scuun. et Tuüxn., Beskr., 231 06 
Seien GR; Diet, NI, 210 : 141. t. #71. DC., necPuer.). — Heptaca Lour., FI. de 1 
n, ee € Buffon, NI, 415. ENDL., Gen., ed. ulyssip. (1790), 657.— Ventenalia su. 
295, re PL., in Hook. Lond. Journ., NV, BEauv., Fl: ow. et ben., I, 29, LÉ Éd 
Journ. Aa Fam. nat, 114, 2 BENTH., in  —C\mBEss., in Mém. Mus., XVI, 409. ; 
si in Flora 
CN, SU UN Ce nv. 5402. — Xylotheca HocusT., in 
Ÿ 1 urn. Linn. 1843), 69,— Chlanis KL., in Pet, Mossamb., 
Gen, = LÉ 
Ge "125, 974, n, — OLiv., in Journ. ( 
— H, Bn, in Adansonia, X, 249. Bot., 14. 
ve, IX, 179. 
