itself so intimately, and by such near transitions, with the 
foliage of the Apocynea, that he is yet at a loss to discri- 
minate the tribes in-that respect. ' 
Rubiacee as an ordinal designation is defective, being 
derived from a genus at one of the extremes of the whole; 
and whosé image, altho’ familiar in these climates, is less 
obviously transfused thro' the tribe than that of almost any' 
other in it. ` 
The present species had been considered by Dr. Rox- 
burgh âs Ixora alba, one that was first instituted by Lin- 
neus in the Flora Zeylanica from a sample in Hermann's' 
Herbarium, But a reference to the archetype now in the 
possession of Sir Joseph Banks, showed that plant to be of 
a distinct species from blanda. In alba the foliage is elliptic 
with an abrupt point; the cyme more simple and fewer. 
flowered.than here, the corolla nearly three times larger, 
the segments lanceolate and printed. The synonym sub- 
stguently adjected from the Hortus Malabaricus, we. suse. 
pect to belong to neither. - a IE 
Dr. Roxburgh found the plant in the gardens of Bengal. 
He speaks of it as a handsome upright branching shrub; 
very like Ixora coccinea; with leaves from 2 to 5 inches 
leng, slightly undulated, upper ones sessile, lower petioled, 
Cyme white-fowered, with red stalks, decompounded, but 
cómpact, numerous, close, more so in the specimens ga 
Y. 
thered in India than in the present. Stipules terminated 
a long, subulate point. Segments of the corolla elliptic, re-. ` 
carved, ` 
Introduced some few years back from India. Requires: 
to. be kept in the hothouse, a ANN 2^ 
“The drawing was made last November at the nursery of. 
Messrs. Lee and Kennedy, at Hammersmith, the only place. 
iu Which we have seen it. ' US 
a The calyx, 5 A flower dissected vertically, ç The pistil. 
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