Ord. PANGIACE^E. 



1. CARPOTROCHE, EndL 



Carpotroche, Endl. Gen. no. 5066 (non Walp. Repert. 1, p. 203). 

 Mayna, Raddi, PI. Nov. Bras. p. 23, f. 1 ; Zucc. PI. Nov. Hort. & Herb. Monac. 

 fasc. 2, p. 55, t. 5, 6. 



1. Carpotroche Brasiliensis. 



Mayna Brasiliensis, Raddi, 1. c. ; DC. Prodr. 1, p. 79; Zucc. 1. c. 



Hab. Brazil, near Rio Janeiro. 



The specimen has only male flowers, and affords nothing to add to 

 Zuccarini's full description and figures. Walpers has without any 

 reason referred to Carpotroche three species of Mayna described by 

 Bentham, which manifestly belong to Presl's Lindackeria; a genus 

 which Mr. Bentham has shown to be most probably identical with 

 Mayna of Aublet.* It was Mr. Brownf who referred the present 

 genus to the family which Blume afterwards published under the 

 name of Pangiaceas : but Mr. Bennett's character of the family appears 

 to be framed so as to apply only to Pangium, Gynocardia, and Hydno- 

 carpus. In several particulars, none of them of any high importance 

 indeed, it does not accord with the character of Carpotroche. 



BIXINEiE. — Bixa Orellana, Linn., the tree which yields the well- 

 known colouring matter named Arnotto by the English, and Eocou by 



* Hook. Kew Bot. Misc. and Jour. Bot. 3, p. 117. 



f Zuccarini, PI. Nov. supra cit. p. 60 ; Bennett, Plantae Javanic* Rariores, p. 190. 



