THALAMIFLOR^ 



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plants are natkan (^«':)i;a Orellana) (fig. 155), cultivated 

 for its seeds, the red pulpy covering of which affords 

 a colouring-matter called anatto, used in dyeing, and 



Fig:. 155.— The Anatto Plant {Bixa Orellana) with Flowers and Fruit. Three of 

 the fruits have opened showing: the seeds. (After Baillon.) 



staining butter; bengchi or bench {Flacourtia sepiaria), 

 a spinous shrub which yields a kind of edible berry; 

 pani-ala or pani-amrha {Flacourtia Cataphracta), with 

 the stem covered with compound spines (see fig. 62); 

 Cochlospemucm Gossypium or Yellow Cotton -tree; 



