X. BIXACE,® 
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X. BIXACE^ 
Trees or shrubs, often spinous. Leaves alternate, simple, 
shortly stalked. Flowers small, axillary, usually crowded in 
short, densely clustered racemes or sometimes scattered along the 
branches, 1 -sexual, the male and female on different plants. 
Sepals 5, imbricate. Petals none. Stamens numerous, filaments 
thread-like, anthers versatile. Ovary 1- or 4-5-celled, girt at the 
base by a ring-shaped disk ; ovules few in each cell, attached to 
the walls, not to the axis. Styles 1 or 4-5. Berry globose. 
Seeds 2 or 6-12. — Chiefly tropical regions . — Bixa is an altered 
form of the native name of a species common in Brazil. 
Leaves pubescent, ovate, 1-2^ in. Styles 4 or 5 . . .1. Flacourlia. 
Leaves glabrous, oblong-lanceolate, 2-6 in. Style 1 . .2. Xylosm.a. 
1. FLACOURTIA. In honour of Etienne de Flacourt, French 
Governor of Madagascar, author of a history of that island. — 
W arm regions of Asia and Africa. 
Flacourtia sapida, Roxb. ; FI. Br. Ind. i. 193, under F. 
Ramoutchi. A shrub or small tree, pubescent, usually spinous. 
Leaves ovate, l-2£ in., toothed. Flowers green -yellow. Sepals 
ovate. Male flowers solitary or in small clusters or in short, 
