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Sepals combined into a cup, its mouth entire 

 at first, but irregularly toothed ou expan- 

 sion. 



Flowers large : stamens numerous, free 7. Pangium. 

 Flowers small : stamens united in a 



column bearing 5 anthers ... 8. Ryparosa. 



1. Bixa, Linn. 



A tree. Leaves simple ; stipules minute. Flowers in terminal 

 panicles, 2-sexual. Sepals 5, imbricate, deciduous. Petals 5, contorted 

 in bud. Anthers opening by 2 terminal pores. Ovary 1-celled ; style 

 slender, curved, stigma notched ; ovules many, on 2 parietal placentas. 

 Capsule loculicidally 2-valved, placentas on the valves. Seeds many, 

 funicle thick, testa pulpy ; albumen fleshy ; embryo large, cotyledons flat. 



1. B. Obellana, Linn. A small tree. Leaves cordate, acuminate, 

 glabrous; length 5 to 7 in., breadth 3 to 5 in., petiole 15 to 2*5. 

 Floivers in short terminal branched cymes, 2 in. in diam., purple or 

 white. Capsule compressed-ovoid, softly prickly, 1"5 in. long; seeds co- 

 vered with coloured pulp. Bl. Bijdr. 55. Roxb. Fl. Ind. II, 31. Miq. 

 Fl. Ind. Bat. I, Pt. 2, p. 107. Hook. fil. Fl. Br. Ind. I, 190. 



Cultivated widely in the tropics on account of the dye (Arnatto) 

 yielded by the testa of its seeds. 



2. Scolopia, Schreber. 



Trees, spinous in India, spines often compound. Leaves alternate, 

 entire ; stipules minute or 0. Flowers small, racemed, axillary, 2-sexual. 

 Sepals 4-6, slightly imbricate in bud. Petals 4-6, subsimilar, imbricate 

 in bud. Stamens many with a row of glands outside them ; anthers 

 ovoid, opening by slits, connective produced into a terminal appendage. 

 Ovary 1-celled ; style erect, stigma entire or lobed ; ovules few, on 3 or 4 

 parietal placentas. Berry 2-4-seeded. Seeds with long funicles, testa 

 hard ; cotyledons foliaceous. — Distrib. Species about 15 ; Australian, 

 Asiatic, and African. 



S. EHiNAKTHERA, Clos. in Ann. Sc. Nat. Ser. IV, Vol. 8, p. 252. A 

 tree; young branches puberulous. Leaves sub-coriaceous, ovate-lanceolate 

 to lanceolate, shortly acuminate, obscurely and minutely glandular-tooth- 

 ed, the base usually rounded, glabrous, shining ; nerves about 7 pairs, 

 faint; length 35 to 5 in. ; breadth 1-75 in. to 2"5 ; petiole biglandular at 

 the apex, '35 long. Racemes axillary and terminal, pubescent, bracteolate, 

 3-4 in., long. Flowers on tomentose bracteolate pedicels. Sepals 4, ovate- 

 lanceolate, tomentose externally. Petals 4, larger than the sepals, rotund, 



