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9. BIXINE^. 



\_CochloSjoermttm^ 



ovules parietal. Fruit dry or fleshy. Seeds albuminous; embryo 

 axile j cotyledons f oHaceous, often cordate. 



Flowers bisexual. 



Petals large, broad. 



Capsule 5-valved ... ... 1. CochloSpbemttm:*. 



Capsule 2- valved ... ... 2. BiXA.. 



Petals small. Fruit a 2-4- seeded berry ... 3. Scolopia. 

 Flowers dioecious. 



Petals 0. Fruit 2-8-celled and seeded ... 4. Flacofetia. 

 Petals 5, witb a scale opposite each. Fruit 



many-seeded ... ... ..,5. Hydnocaeptts. 



1. COCHLOSPERMUM, Euntb. 



Trees or shrubs. Leaves digitately lobed. Flowers large, yellow, 

 bisexual. Sepals 5^ deciduous. Petals 5, contorted in bud. Stamens 

 indefinite, inserted on a disk, without glands. Ovary with numerous 

 ovules on 3-5 parietal placentas. Capsule 3-5-valved. Seeds eoch- 

 leate ; testa hard, woolly ; embryo curved. 



C. gossypium, DO. Prod. 1. 527 ; Fl. Br. I. 1. 190 ; Brandis For. Fl. 

 17 ; Bedd. Fl. Sylv. 14, Gunglay, gulgul, M.:; Ganeri^ Bhil ; Bulauriy. 

 K. 



Dry stony hills along the foot of the North- West Hymalaya, Behar, 

 Bundelkund, Orissa and the Deecan; coramon on the Khandesh 

 Satpuras, also in the Belgaum District on the Kaladgi quartzites. 



A small tree with soft wood and smooth, ash-coloured bark. Wood 

 very soft : weighs 27 lbs. to the cubic foot. 



The new leaves appear in May, Flowers February to April. Fruit 

 ripe June-Jnly. Old fruit on the tree as late as April, before the new 

 leaves appear. Yields a gum valuable in book- binding (Marbling 

 paper). Floss from the seeds used for stuffing cushions like that of 

 Bombax. 



2. BIXA, L. 



A shrub or small tree. Leaves simple ; stipules minute. Flowers 

 in terminal panicles, bisexual. Sepals 5, 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 softly prickly, loculicidally 2- valved ; 

 placentas on the middle of each valve. Seeds many ; testa pulpy, 

 red j embryo large ; cotyledons flat. 



5. Orellana, Linn. Fl. Br. L 1. 190 ; Brandis For. Fl. 17; Dalz. & 

 Gibs. Bomb. Fl. Suppl. 5. Arnotto, hisri, sendri, Vern. ; 'Budgainali^ K. 



Cultivated throughout the presidency ; indigenous in America. Fl. 

 Sept. Fr. Jany. A small evergreen tree. Young shoots and inflorescence 

 rusty-puberulous. Leaves cordate, acuminate, entire or angular, 3-8 in, 

 in diameter. Flowers in terminal panicles, large, 2 in. across, purple 

 or white. Capsule ovoid, reddish-brown, 1*5 in. long. The pulp 



