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here for more than twelve years, without fl — Seeds used by the Natives 

 at Silhet in the cure of cutaneous disorders. Freed from their integu- 

 ments, they are beaten up with clarified butter into a soft mass, and 

 in this state applied thrice a day to the parts affected. (Roxb.) 



* Pangium Rumphii, (Rumph. 2, t. 59.) b Java, Moluccas. 



ORDER XLIX.— TURNERACE^, DC— Lindl. Nat. Syst. p. 71. 



Annual and perennial herbs, sometimes under-shrubs, all natives of S. 

 America, Mexico and the W. Indies, of 2 genera and 31 species. — Proper- 

 ties unknown. 

 TuRNERA, L. {DC. pr. 3, p. 346.) 



1. ulmifolia, L. {DC. I. c.) 



/3. angustifolia. DC. (T. angustifolia. Curt. ;— B. M. 8, t. 221.) t 

 Jamaica. Fl. largish, uniformly yellow ; and fr. the whole year. 

 Domesticated about Serampore. 



2. trioniflora, Sims. {B. M. 47, t. 2106 -.—DC. pr. i.p. 346.) '^. Bra- 

 zil, Trinidad, Mexico. Fl. large, cream-coloured with a dark purple- 

 eye ; and fr. the whole year. Domesticated about Serampore. 



* T. cunei/ormis, Juss. "b Rio Janeiro — T. brasiliensis, "Willd. "fci Brazil. 

 — T. acuta, Spreng. "b Jamaica. — Piriqueta villosa, Aubl. Guiana. 



ORDER L.—BIXACE^.— Lindl. Nat. Syst. p. 72. 



THE ARNOTTO TRIBE. 



Trees of only one genus, and 1-2 species. 

 BixA, L. {DC.pr. \,p. 259;—!^. and A.pr. l.p. 31.) 



1. Orellana, L. {DC. I. c.) b Hot parts of America. Fl. largish, in- 

 odorous, R. S. ; fr. C. S. 

 a caribcea, (Bixa Orellana, B. M. 35, /. 1456.) Cultivated in the 



W. Indies. Fl. rose-coloured ; immature fr. dark reddish-brown. 

 j3. indica, (Bixa Orellana, Roxb. fl. ind. 2, p. 581 ; — fV. and A.pr. 

 1, p. Si;— Wight ill. I, t. 17;— 7. Grah. Cat. B. pi. p. 10;— 

 Rumph. 2, /. 19.) ©J^^R" Lutkun. Flowers white ; immature fruit, 

 green. Cultivated in India. 

 Bixa yields the substance Arnotto, in France called Rocou, which is the 

 pulp of the seeds. Farmers use it to stain their cheeses, and dyers to obtain 

 a reddish colour. The dye of the Indian variety is neither so abundant, 

 nor so good, as that from the W. Indies ; where also the bark of the tree 

 is used for cordage. 



