Alsodda.] xiii. violace^. (Hook. f. & Thorns.) * 189 



Sect. III. Scyphellandra, Thwaites (Gen.). Stamens included: an- 

 thers free. Bisk reduced to 5 scales, one at the back of each anther. 



1.1. A. vlrgata, Thwaites (Scyphellandra) ; twigs pubescent with curled 

 hairs, leaves small petioled ovate or oblong toothed glabrous obtuse at 

 both ends. 



Hot dry parts of GErtON, Thwaites. 



A small shrat. Leaves very variable, J-I4 in. ; petiole pubescent. Stipules minute 

 lanceolate. _ Flowers subsolitary, axijl^ry, pedungled or subs.esbilfi,,Jin._diam., whitish! 

 Petals sessile, linear-oblong, twice as long as the broadly ovate obtuse ciliolate sepals. 

 Anthers subsessile, tip of the connective petaloid, much exceeding the cells, ovate sub- 

 acute. Ovary small glabrous; style slender, stigma , minutely 3-lobed; ovules one on 

 each placenta. Capsule S-valved. Seeds subglobose. 



Order XIV. BIXINEiE. (By Hooker f. &■ Thomson.) 



Trees or shrubs. Leaves alternate ; stipules minute or 0. InSorescence 

 various. Flowers regular, 1-2-sexual. Sepals 4-5, rarely -2-6, imljricate 

 free or connate and bursting irregularly, usually deciduous. Petals 4-6 or o' 

 imbricate or contorted in bud, deciduous. Stamens usually hypogynous • 

 anthers 2-ceUed, bursting by slits or pores. Bisk thickened, often glaridular! 

 Ovari/ 1-, rarely several-celled ; style and stigmas free or united ; ovules 

 parietal, amphitropous or anatropous. Fruit dry or fleshy, indeMscent or 

 valvular, valves bearing the seeds in the middle. Seeds arillate or testa 



Eulpy, albumen fleshy ; embryo axUe, cotyledons foliaceous often cordate! — 

 •iSTEDB. Chiefly tropical ; genera 30 ; species 160. 



Tribe I. Bizeae. Petals broad, contorted, without a scale or basal ap- 

 pendage. Anthers bursting by pores or short slits. 



Capsule almost 3-5-celled. Leaves oompoufld 1. Cochlospeemdm. 



Capsule 2-valved. Leaves simple 1* Bixa. 



Tribe II. Flacourtieae. Petals small, inibricate or 0. Anthers short, 

 bursting by slits. 



.Flowers 2-sexual. Petals 4-6. Stamens indefinite ... 2. Scolopia. 



Flowers 2-sexual. Petals 5-6. Stamens 5-6 ..... 3. Ektthhospeemdm. 



Flowers usually dioecious. Petals 0. Ovary 2-8-oelled . . 4. Flacouetia. 



Flowers dioecious. Petals 0. Ovary 1-celled. Seeds glabrous 5. Xylosma. 



Flowers ditecious. Petals 0. Ovary 1-celled. Seeds hairy 6. AbekiA. 



Tribe IIL Pangiese. Fknjg&rs dioecious. Petals with an adnate scale 

 or basal appejidage. 



Sepals connate. Stamens very many 7. Gtnocaedia. _J 



Sepals connate. Stamens 5 8. Tkichadenia. 



Sepals free; Stamens 5-8 9. Hydnocaepds. 



I. COCKXiOSFEXtniVIIZ, Kunth. 



Trees or shrubs, juice yellow or red. Leaves digitately lobed or divided. 

 Flowers large, yellow, 2-sexual. Sepals 5, .deciduous. Petals 5, large, con- ■ 

 ported in bud. Stamens many, on an eglandular disk ; anther-cells with 

 pores or short slits. Ovary globose, almost 3-6-celled ; style simple, stigma 

 toothed ; ovules very many, on 3-5 parietal placentas. Capsule 3-5-valved, 

 eadocarp membralnous. Seeds coohleate ; testa hard, woolly ; embryo 

 curved. — Disteib. About 11 species, aU tropical. 



