1U 
Sepals combined into a cup, its mouth entire 
at first, but irregularly toothed on expan- 
sion. 
Flowers large : stamens numerous, free 7. Pangium. 
Flowers small : stamens united in a 
column bearing 5 anthers ... 8. Hyparosa. 
1. Bixa, Linn. 
A tree. Leaves simple ; stipules minute. Flowers in terminal 
panicles, 2-scxual. Sepals 5, imbricate, deciduous. Petals 5, contorted 
in bud. Anthers opening by 2 terminal pores. Ovary i-celled ; style 
slender, curved, stigma notched ; ovules many, on 2 parietal placentas. 
Capsule loenlicidally 2-valved, placentas on the valves. Seeds many, 
funicie thick, testa pulpy ; albumen fleshy ; embryo large, cotyledons flat. 
I. B. Orellana, Linn. A small tree. Leaves cordate, acuminate, 
glabrous; length 5 to 7 in., breadth 3 to 5 in., petiole 1*5 to 2*5. 
Flowers in short terminal branched cymes, 2 in. in diam., purple or 
white. Capsule compressed-ovoid, softly prickly, T5 in. long; seeds co- 
vered with coloured pulp. Bl. Bijdr. 55. Roxb. Fl. Ind. II, 31. Miq. 
Fl. Ind Bat. T, 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. ScOLOPlA, Schrcber. 
Trees, spinous in India, spines often componnd. Loaves alternate, 
entire ; stipules minute or 0. Flowers small, racemed, axillary, 2-sexual. 
Sepal* 4-6, slightly imbricate in bud. Petals 4-6, subsimilar, imbricate 
in bud. Stamens many with a row of glands outside them ; authors 
ovoid, opening by slits, connective produced into a terminal appendage. 
Ovary 1-celled ; style erect, stigma entire or lobed ; orulos few, on 3 or 4 
parietal placentas. Berry 2-4-seeded. Seeds with long fu nicies, testa 
hard ; cotyledons foliaceous. — Distrib. Species about 15 ; Australian, 
Asiatic, and African. 
S. rttinanth era, Clos. in Ann. Sc. Nat. Ser. IV, Vol. 8, p. 252. A 
tree ; young branches pubernlous 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 braetfolate pedicels. Sepals 4, ovate- 
lanceolate, tonicntose externally. Petals 4, larger than the sepals, rotund, 
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