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VIOLACEJE. 
Order VII. *VI0LACE^I. 
* Viola Patrinii , DC. (V. betoniccefolia , Bojer, non Smith), a com- 
mon Indian species, is established by roadsides at Ville Bague, Yacquois 
and Moka, Mauritius, It is a stemless glabrous perennial, with long- 
petioled deltoid-cordate crenate leaves in a basal rosette ; long pedicels ; 
flowers often apetalous ; corolla violet blue, f- in. long, with an oblong 
obtuse spur ; petals veined at base, and a flattened style. 
Order YIII. BIXACE^l. 
Flowers regular, hermaphrodite or in Flacourtia dioicous. Sepals 
usually 5, obtuse, imbricate. Petals as many or 0. Stamens hypo- 
gynous, 5 or indefinite. Ovary 1-celled ; placentas usually 2 or more, 
one in Apliloia ; ovules parietal. Fruit baccate or capsular, dehiscing 
into as many valves as there are placentas. Seeds few or many, 
albuminous. — Trees or shrubs, with alternate exstipulate entire 
leaves ; the flowers solitary or in peduncled racemes in the axils of the 
leaves. Distrib. Cosmopolitan in tropics ; also Cape. Species 160. 
Flowers hermaphrodite 
Petals 5 ; stamens indefinite * Bixa. 
Petals and stamens 5-6 each 1 . Erythrospermum. 
Petals 0 ; stamens very numerous 
Placentas 2-4 ; style produced 2. Ludia. 
Placenta 1 ; stigma sessile, peltate 3. Aphloia. 
Flowers dioicous * Flacourtia. 
# Bixa Orellana, Linn., the Arnotto, a native of Tropical America, 
is established in the Seychelles, and commonly planted in Mauritius. 
It is a low tree, with large petioled alternate cordate-ovate cuspidate 
entire membranous leaves ; large red or white flowers in terminal 
corymbs ; 5 petals ; indefinite stamens ; long simple flexuose style, and a 
large ovoid densely prickly capsule, with 2 parietal placentas, which 
splits into two coriaceous valves. Boucou. 
1. ERYTHROSPERMUM, Lam. 
Sepals 5-6, obovate, much imbricated. Petals 5-6, like the sepals, but 
smaller. Stamens as many, hypogynous ; filaments subulate ; anthers 
lanceolate-sagittate. Ovary globose, sessile ; placentas 3-4 ; ovules 
many; style short ; stigma obscurely lobed. Fruit globose, hard, finally 
dehiscing. Seeds few, large, turgid. — Erect shrubs with large alternate 
nearly sessile leaves and small flowers in racemes from their axils. 
Distrib. One other species in Ceylon. 
1. E. mauritianum, Baker. A glabrous erect shrub or small tree. 
Leaves alternate, subcoriaceous, obtuse or acute, cuneate or rounded at 
the base, short-petioled or sessile, green, subcoriaceous, exstipulate. 
Flowers in racemes or corymbs about as long as the leaves ; pedicels 
