72 BIXINES. [ Bira. 
Placentas 3-5, more or less projecting, with numerous ovules. 
Capsule 3-5- valved. Seeds kid ney-shaped or spirally curved, woolly 
or hairy-fringed.—Trees or shrubs, with usually palmatilobed leaves 
and large yellow racemose flowers. 
* C. gossypium, DC. ; H.f. Ind. Fl.i.190; Bedd. Sylv. Madr. 
Brand. For. Fl. 17 ook tree (20—30 + 6—15 + 2—3) ; 
ce about 8-10 in. each way, palmatilobed, with the lobes acumi- 
nate and entire, tomentose, turning glabrous above ; flowers large, 
yellow, in terminal racemes ; capsule shortly obovate, large, 3-5- 
celled, glabrous ; seeds numerous, almost kidney-shaped, woolly. 
a Has a3 .—Rare in the dry forests on the hills of Prome.—Fl. March.—l.— 
Remarxs.—Wood soft and only fit for firewood. cea a clear white gum 
called in iainitan kadira, a substitute for tragacan 
BIXA, L. 
Flowers ee Sepals 5, imbricate, deciduous. Petals. 
5, contorted. Anthers opening by a apical pores. Placentas 2, 
bearing many ovules. Capsules opening loculicidally in 2 valves 
bearing the placentas on them. Seeds many, funicled, with a 
pulpy testa. Albumen fleshy.—Small trees, with simple entire 
leaves. Flowers showy. 
. B, Orellana, L. ; H.f. Ind. Fl. i. 190; Bedd. Sylv. Madr. 
1; Brand. For. Fl. 17 —Lhee-ding.—An evergreen tree (20— 
36 + 016 = + 1—2), often remaining shrubby, the younger 
branchlets often covered with a rusty-coloured scurfy tomentum ; 
bark effen, about 1-2 lin. thick, longitudinally covered with corky 
pustules, grey ; cut reddish ; leaves s broadly cordate to ovate, long- 
petioled, sometimes angular or shortly lobed, entire, glabrous, 4-8 
in. long ; flowers , rose-coloured or white, in terminal panicles ; 
: capsules “nearly globular or ovoid, purplish, covered with long soft 
prickles, 
Has.—Frequently. cultivated all ov. 
escape along he as es of the Pegu Tonk a. Een ene 2 a All. SiS., 
_ _Remarxs.—Sapwood red, heartwood pale- 
testa of seeds furnishes the arnotto-dye or ee — The orange-red pulpy 
SCOLOPIA, Schreb. 
= __ Flowers hermaphrodite. Sepals 4-6, slightly imb 
. —— as Saath almost SRE = Seeseise pontine oar 
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