BIXIN

n. Bi?x’i?n. Fr., birine. Ger., Bixin. An orange colored or red crystalline coloring matter, C,eHaç0g [Kerndt]. Ce: H,a04, [Stein], or CasHg40g [Etti], obtained from an not to; soluble with difficulty in water, but. according to Chevreuil, readily soluble also to a superior From Lat., bis, twice, and in alcoho] and in ether. The term is spplied variety of an not to. [B, 2, 81.]—B’säure (Ger.). See Brxic ACID. BIXINÆ (Lat.), n. f. pl. Bi?x-i(e)’ne(na’-e2), Of Kunth, Lindley, and others, an order of cotyledonous plants, corresponding in part to the Bixineæ. [B, 170.] BIXINEÆ (Lat.), n. f. ie Bi?x-i’n’e?-e(as-e?), Fr., birinées. Syn.: Bixaceæ, An order of dicotyledonous trees or shrubs estab- O, no; 02, not; 03, whole; Th, thin; Th?, the; U, like oo in too; U2, blue; U*, lull; U4, full; U*, urn; U®, like ü (Germau). lished by Kunth. By Bentham and Hooker it is referred to the cohort Parietales, and made to comprise trees or shrubs with alternate simple leaves, exstipulate or having minute caducous stipules, and with regular hermaphrodite or unisexual flowers having from two to six sepals, usually imbricate, which finally become reflexed or deciduous, a corolla (sometimes absent) consisting of petals equaling or exceeding the sepals in number and also deciduous, numerous hypogynous stamens with bilocular anthers, a receptacle often glandulose and sometimes expanded into a ane and an ovary, usually unilocular, bearing two or more parietal placentae, each oi which contains two or more amphitropal or anatropal ovules, and having as many styles as placentæ, either united into one or more or le separate. The fruit is seb or dry, and few-seeded; the albumen is fleshy and incloses an axile embryo. The B. are divided into the Bixee, Oncobeæ, Flacourtieæ, and Pangieæ. By Baillon the order has heen extended to comprise genera ranked by Bentham and Hooker under different orders, and is divided into the Bixee (including Bixa and Oncoba), Flacourtieæ, Samydeæ, Lacistemeæ, Calanticeæ, Homalieæ, Pangieæ, Papayeæ, Turnereæ, and Coch los per meæ. ‘[B, 42, 121.] BEXINUM (Lat.), n. n. ‘nu’m(nu‘m). See Brxry.