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: IXORA blanda. 
Roxburgh’s Izorá. 
TETRANDRIA MONOGYNIA. 
RuBIACRE. Jussieu gen. 196. : ^ 
.. Bic. VI, Fructus monocarpus bilocularis dispermus,, Folia oppo-: 
sita. g ` nc ' 
IXORA. Cal. l-phyllus, superus, minimus, 4-fidus. Cor. re- 
gularis, tubo longo gracili limbo obtuse guadripartito. nth. ad faucem' 
subsessiles exseria, limbi laciniis alterna. Bacca 2-loc. loculis disper- 
mis, (rectiús 1-spermis monénte D*. Brown.) Frutices; flores termi- 
nales corymbosi aut conferti. Jussieu }. c. 203. 
Y. blanda, foliis ovali-v. ovato-lanceolatis, cyma trichotomo-décomposita 
contracta; numerosa, compacta. | y ” 
Exora alba. Roxburgh corom. ined. cum fig. pict. et exempl. sicc. in mus.’ 
banks.; (nec aliorum.) a i 
.. Frutex erectus, glaber, ramosus, cortice fusco. Folia subundulata, ner, 
vosa, 3-4-uncialia : stipula interfoliaceæ, acumine subulato-elongato. C 
terminalis, bracteolata, stricta, convexa, alba, pedunculis rubentibus. Flores 
inodori; tubus strictus, aliguotiês longior limbo, lacinise ellipticæ, denud re- 
survaiæ. Stylus emicans tubo ferm? ad longitudinem limbi. Stig. 2. 
Ixora is a, branch of the Rubiacee or Madder-tribe 
of Jussieu, one.of the more interesting natural divi- 
sions. Within it, besides the Madder, we find the Coffee- 
tree, the Cincuona that yields the medicinal bark, the 
GaRDENIA florida or Cape-Jasmine, the. Catesnxa or Lily- 
Thorn, and a chain of species connecting, thro' almost in-, 
sensible transitions, the gigantic-flowered PonrLANDIA, with 
a nearly microscopic-flowered Gariuw. -A verticillate foli- 
age is said to mark its herbaceous members among all dico- 
tyledonous vegetables, an opposite one connected by sheaths 
or stipules, the shrubby and arboreous. But the characters 
selected from the flower and fruit, as applied by Jussieu, are 
now found no longer to define this mass, which has been 
divided by Professor Decandolle into four orders; of these, 
that of the Coffeacee comprises Ixora, the fruit of which 
Mr. Brown has found to have two single-seeded loculaments, 
not two double-seeded ones, attributed to it by his pre- 
decessors. The same eminently accurate observer also tells 
us, that he has found the above habit in the foliage, instead 
of exclusively marking the arborescent Rubiaceae, to blend 
