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Orpf.1i IX. BTX1NMJS. 
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-perigynous, (nnited into a 
column iti Ryparoaa) : anthers 2-celled with porous or longitudinal 
dehiscence. Disc thick, often glandular. Ocary free, usually 1-celled, 
the placentas parietal. Styles and sfvjnuis 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 1 70. 
Tribe T. Bixinem. Petals broad, contorted, without 
basal scales -. anthers elongate, opening by termi- 
nal pores or short slits. 
Capsule with parietal placentas, 2-valved, 
softly nuiricate ... ... ... 1* Bixa. 
Tribe II. Flacourtiw. Petals smalt and imbricate, 
or absent. Anthers short, opening by slits. 
Flowers hermaphrodite : petals 4 to 6. 
Stamens numerous ... ... 2. Scnhpia, 
„ 5 or 6 ... ... 3. Erythrospermum. 
Flowers dioecious : petals 0, 
Ovary 2 to-8 celled ... ... 4. Flacourtia. 
Tribe III, Pangim. Flowers dioecious, petals with 
an ad n ate basil scale or appendage : fruit large, 
indehiscent. 
Sepals free. 
Sepals 5, imbricate ; Petals 5. Stamens 
5 to 8: Stigmas 3 to 6 ... ... 5. Hydnacarpus. 
Sepals 4. Petals 8, in 2 rows ; Stamens 
20 to 30, Stigma 1 ... ... 6. Taraklogonos. 
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