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. BOUVARDIA tiphylla. 775077770: 
Three-leaved: Bouwardias . noy 
©, TEFRANDRIA' MONOGÍNTA. | . 
Nat. ord. RumnacE. Jussieu gen 100.7 i i tu hely 
.. BOUFARDIA. Cal. (supetus) 4-phyllis, dentibus: quibmedany: 
interjectis. Cor. tubulosa, Anthere incluses. Caps. bipartibilis, : ; 
sperma. Sem, marginata, Hort, Kew. ed. 2:1. 245. ; 
B. triphylla. | Salisb. paradis, 88. | 204 . 
Bouvardia triphylla, Hort. Kew. ed. 2. 1. 245. Ut 
Houstonia coccinea. “Andrews’s reposit. 106. — Persóon syn. 1. 185 
Ixora americana. Jacq. hort. schanbr. 3. 4.1. 257; (nec Linnoîi.)- 
Ixora ternifolia,- Cavanill. ic. 4.3. t. 305.- Recens, pl. in reposit. botan. 
depict. 37. Persoon syn. 1. 130. . . oU . 
'Caulês plures sufrutioosi evecti, parlón ramosi; téretés, villorkli pan 
dales, pennam columbinam crassi. ^ Folia terna, breviter petiolata, tin 
ata, acuta, integerrima, utrinque et ad oras willis brevissimis scalirs, patene 
tissima v. refleza, unam alteramve unciam longa. Stipule subulate, erectie, 
terne, cum foliis alternantes. ` Pedunculi terminales, plusculi, erecti, $3tori, 
etiam semel dichotomi, scabri, stmunciam v. unciam i, Flores inodori, 
erecti. Cal. ef germen hirta. Cor. coccinea, foris villosula, uncialis. ' Anth. 
HAavide, Cal. 4-phyllus, superus, -persistens, foliolis lanceolatis. acuminatis 
patentissimis. Cor, J-petala; tubus (tetragono-) cylindricus, longissimus, 
erectus. Limli %ifidi et brevistimi laciniis ovalis, obtusis, paténtissimis. Fil. 
subulata, tota feré quanta tubo adnata. Germ. inferum, turbinatum cum 
vertice ultra calycis ortum prominente subbifido. Stylus subulaiws, erectus, 
tubo corolle brevior. Stigma obtusum, oblongum. Jacq. loc. cit. 
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When we turn to the description of the Ixora americana 
we are at a loss to account for Jacguin's having conceived 
our plant to belong to that species. Ixora americana is 
stated to be a tree, with leaves that have long petioles, and 
a flower in which the tube is shorter than in any other of 
the genus: all of them features which have no existence 
here. We since find our plant intruded upon HousToNta, 
from which, as well as Ixora, it has been judiciously re- 
moved by Mr. R. A. Salisbury, and made the foundation of 
a genus, called after Dr. Charles Bouvard ; a former super- 
intendant, and one of the earliest as well as most consider- 
able benefactors of that celebrated national establishment, 
the botanic garden at Paris. 
. The plant is become very general in our collections. It 
is suffrutescent and perennial, from one to two feet high, 
