610 Jowrnal of the Asiatic Society of Bengal. [December, 1908. 
of Panama, Columbia,and Peru. Cultivated throughout the Trop- 
ics. An interesting account of the present distribution of Bixa 
orellana in India is given by I, H. Burkill in the “ Agricultural 
Ledger,” 1904, No. 12, p, 183 and ff. 
PORTULACACER. 
2. Tawinum patens, Willd, B. P., vol.i, p, 240: “ C. Bengal 
becoming somewhat common in the neighbourhood of Calcutta. 
used as a vegetable. Roxb., F.I.,p.391: ‘ Talinum cunecfolvum. 
Native place uncertain. In the Botanic garden at Calcutta it 
flowers ae during the rains, “ome ripens abundance of seed in 
the cold season.” Not referred to in F. B. I., nor by Voigt. 
- Micvdiach ‘Gilaneiniiseicicner Willd. Malvastrum 
tricuspidatum, Ait . P., vol. i, p. 257 : “ Common in W. an 
co Bengal.” F. B. ae i, 321: “ Various ae of Bengal and Maa: 
introduced.” Neither in Voigt, H. S. C., nor in Roxb., F. I. 
Na ative of the warmer Sees s of America, now spread to Australia 
and Tropical Africa and Asia. 
14. Matv. airs | SPICATUM, Linn. B, P., vol. i, p. ae “Tn 
waste places in C, Bengal, rare.” F. B.1., i, 391 ; “Various parts 
of India, introduced.” Hails from Tropica aad America, now spread 
through the tropics of both hemispheres. Enumerated neither by 
Vga nor by Roxburgh. 
ANopA HasTaTa, Cav. Not mentioned in B. P. As it 
cae F hiwover, in various parts of India, it may yet be traced in 
the Bengal Provinces. F. B. I., i, 321: “ Various parts of N. W. 
India and the Western Parnas. ” A weed indigenous in Tropical 
America. Voigt, H. 8. C., p. 115: ‘“ Mexico.” Not slithered 
by Roxburgh. 
16. WissabduLa rostrata, Planch. B. P., vo i, p- sac wip 
1, an occasional escape.” Watt, Ec. Dict., ar vi, 4, p. 308 : 
= eae of the Malay Peninsula, Hate, Tropical ‘Africa and Ameri- 
ee F i, 325. Voigt, H. 8. C., p. 114: ‘ Abutilon periplo- 
cifo lium : "Sumatra, Malay Islands.” Roxb., F. 1, p. 516: “Sida 
piitelicitotin olia 
17. Matacura capit ara, Linn. B.P., vol. i, p. 262: “ Com- 
mon. <A weed of waste places. pie ye 3 i, 329: ‘Throughout 
the hotter parts of India. Probably sitetelusedl” Voigt, H.S.C., 
18. Hisiscus Mantinor, Linn. B.P., vol. i,p . 266: ‘ C, Ben- 
—— of China ina.” F, B. i Ba. Voigt, H. 8. 
19, Hisiscus srt: Linn. on P., a p- 266: ‘ Behar 
= ia Vo, JH. Oni ae Roxb., F. Sls ead" iba. 
