Cochlospermum. ] BIXINER. 71 
shortly petioled, narrowed and usually unequal at ‘aah, acuminate, 
coarsely and irregularly serrate or serrulate, glabrescent above, 
beneath pubescent ; flowers rather small, in short peduneled axil- 
lary tomentose cymes ; bracts broadly reniform, slightly velvety ; 
calyx and pedicels tomentose ; connective short and acute ; capsule 
¢ in. in diameter, densely pubescent. 
Has.—Tenasserim. 
BIXINE. 
Flowers regular, prisine- inert or fmm Sepals 4-5, rarely 
2 to 6, imbricate, — and connate ursting irregularly, often 
deciduous. Petals 4 to 5, or siskias. imbricate or twisted in the 
bud, deciduous. Stamens usually hypogynous ; anthers 2-celled, 
bursting by pores or slits. Disk thickened, often glandular. 
Ovary 1-rarely several-celled, with parietal amphitropous or ana- 
tropous ovules ; style and stigmas free or unit ruit or 
fleshy, indehiscent, or opening by valves bearing the seeds in the 
ee oe usually few, sometimes with an arillus or the testa 
men copious, fleshy. Embryo axile, the cotyledons 
Leaky ‘and dea cordate.—Trees or shrubs, with alternate usually 
simple or sometimes palmatilobed leaves. Stipules minute or none. 
Flowers axillary or terminal, solitary or in clusters, corymbs, ra- 
cemes, or panicles. 
About 13-14 Burmese species of this order are known, and a 
few of ‘ised are trees of some interest to the forester. The fruits 
of some are edible; the red pulpy testa of the seeds of ira 
Orellana furnish the Arnotto of the ae 
* Petals without a scale or basal appendage. 
xX Petals broad, twistedin bud. Fruit a sears 
Capsule 3-5-celled ; leaves palmatilobed . . . Cochlospermum. 
Capsule 2-valved ; leaves entire or nearly " . Biza. 
ery a none or small. Fruit a " drupe or berry. 
4-6 ; flowers ecinii rodite . Scolopia. 
O O Petals none. Flowers — dioecious. 
Ovary 2-8-celled . z . Flacourtia. 
Ovary 1-celled . Aylosma, 
* * Petals witha an eiuade sate é or haved ae 
te. 
Sepals connate, dividing into 2-4 ; stamens 4-5; flowers racemose . Ryparia. 
x 
Sepals connate; stamens numerous ‘ . ie BS mascot 
Sepals free, much imbricate ; stamens 5 or indefinite . a Hydnocarpus. 
COCHLOSPERMUM, Kth. 
Flowers hermaphrodite. Sepals 5, sintorted 3 in bud, deciduous. 
Petals as many, large. Stamens numerous, inserted on the gland-— 
torus ; anthers opening by apical pores or very short — 
