1890.] G. King — Materials for a Flora of the Malayan Peninsula. 113 



VIII. — Materials for a Flora of the Malayan Peninsula. — By George 

 King, M. B., LL. D., F. R. S., C. I. E., Superintendent of the Boyal 

 Botanic Garden, Calcutta. 



{Continued from p. 408 of Vol. LVIII of 1889.) 



[Received and read 5th February, 1890.] 



Order IX. BIXINE^E. 



Trees or shrubs with alternate minutely stipulate or exstipulate 

 leaves. Flowers regular, 1-2-sexual. Sepals 4 or 5 (rarely 2 to 6) 

 imbricate, free, or connate and bursting irregularly; usually deciduous. 

 Petals 4 or 5, or absent, imbricate or contorted, deciduous, often with 

 basal scales. Stamens hypogynous or sub-pei'igynous, (united into a 

 column in Eyparosa) : anthers 2-celled with porous or longitudinal 

 dehiscence. Disc thick, often glandular. Ovary free, usually 1-celled, 

 the placentas parietal. Styles and stigmas free or united. Fruit dry with 

 valvular dehiscence, the seeds along the middle of the valves ; or fleshy, 

 indehiscent. Seeds arillate, albumen fleshy, embryo axile straight or 

 curved: cotyledons foliaceous. Distrib. Chiefly tropical: genera 30: 

 species about 170. 



Tribe I. Bixinece. Petals broad, contorted, without 

 basal scales : anthers elongate, opening by termi- 

 nal pores or short slits. 



Capsule with parietal placentas, 2-valved, 



softly muricate ... ... ... 1. Bixa. 



Tribe II. Flacotirtice. Petals small and imbricate, 



or absent. Anthers short, opening by slits. 



Flowers hermaphrodite : petals 4 to 6. 



Stamens numerous ... ... 2. Scolopia. 



,, 5 or 6 ... ... 3. Erythrospermum. 



Flowers dioecious : petals 0. 



Ovary 2 to-8 celled ... ... 4. Flacourtia. 



Tribe III. Pangice. Flowers dioecious, petals with 

 an adnate basal scale or appendage : fruit large, 

 indehiscent. 

 Sepals free. 



Sepals 5, imbricate ; Petals 5. Stamens 



5 to 8 : Stigmas 3 to 6 ... ... 5. Hydnocarpus. 



Sepals 4. Petals 8, in 2 rows ; Stamens 



20 to 30, Stigma 1 ... ... 6. Tarahtogonos. 



