230 BENGAL PLANTS. 
56. Bixa Linn. 
Trees, with simple leaves digitately nerved and slightly or not 
lobed. Flowers in terminal panicles, - or rose, hermaphrodite. 
Sepals 5, imbricate, deciduous. onto: 
Stamens numerous; anthers opening a eanaaal pores. Ovary a 
1-celled, placentas 2 parietal ; style slender curved; ovules many. — 
Fruit a 2-valved loculicidal capsule, the placentas in the centre of 
the valves. Seeds numerous, with thick funicle and dye-yielding 
pulpy testa; embryo large, with scanty fleshy albumen. 
89. Brxa Orentana Linn. ; F. I. ii. 581; F. B. 1. i. 190; E. De 
Cultivated everywhere, but in Bengal proper vey 
generally wild in village jungles. 
A small, evergreen American tree or large bush grown fot 
the dye yielded by the pulpy testa. The cultivated form 
has often rose flowers; the flowers of plants that have ru 
wild are almost always white. Vernac. Latkan (generally); 
Kong kuombi ee ; Powasi (Chittagong) ; Grilbas: 
(Orissa). The Anatto. 
a7. lowes gat Commers. 
Seeds obovoid with leathery testa; cotyledons orbicular. 
— riots oF a lanceolate with acuminate apices, twice as 1008 
about t the si ze of grapes. Cr # 
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placenta. Frwit indehiscent with a hard endocarp ; cells 1- : : 
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Thorns scattered, eas yi eae united, lobes of stigma si s 
berry when dried 5-T-angled; seeds 8-10 :— be, 
Leaves glabrous above, glabrous or only hairy on the a“ : 
MO Ramontehi var. sapidt 
amontchi var. 0¢ 
Thorns numerous, =m always bearing leaves and flowers; 
— mae: lobes of sti ma 3-4; ney when dried 3-4 mee 
Redimpa dug wet Es SOF hie he rie Ube | Sa ela 
