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IXORA grandiflora, 
Large-flowered scarlet Ixora, 
TETRANDRIA MONOGYNTA. 
Nat. ord. RumicEx. Jussieu gen. 196. 
Div. VI. Fructus monocarpus bilocularis dispermus, Folia op- 
posita. 
IXORA. Supra vol. 2. fol. 100. 
I. grandiflora, foliis sessilius, oblongis, acutis, basi cordatis; segmentis 
calycis acutis: laciniis corollz ovali-lanceolatis, acutis. 
Ixora coccinea. Lin. sp. pl. 1. 159; (exclusis synonymis Osbeck, 
Rumph, et Burman). Lamarck encyc. 3. 343. 
Ixora foliis ovalibus semiamplexicaulibus, floribus fasciculatis. Linn, 
Flor. zeyl. 22; (affirmante specimine archetypo Herbarii Hermanniani 
in Mus. Banks.) 
Jasminum indicum, lauri folio, inodorum umbellatum, floribus coccineis, 
Pluk. alm. 196. t. 59. fig. 2. — 
Ratambala, s. Cerasus sylvestris zeylanica pavonina umbellata latifolia, 
floribus coccineis holosericeis. Herman. zeyl. 36. 
Schetti, Rheede mal. 2. 17. t. 12. a 
Frutex 4-6-pedalis, erecto-ramosus. Folia distantêr decussata, sessilia, 
subcordato-oblonga, acuminata, nitida, 3-4-uncialia, sesquiunciam lata ma- 
gisve. Stipule ovato-subulate, carinate. Cyme terminales, subsessiles, 
breves, multiflore, simpliciores, trichotome ; pedunculi curti, colorati, tris 
idi, infra trichotomiam bibracteati, pedicellis brevissimis, medio trium ebracs 
teato : bracteæ duriuscule. Cal. parvus, coloratus, 4-fidus, segmentis cam- 
panulato-conniventibus, acuminatis, patulis. Cor. pro genere magna, mintato- 
coccinea, extús opacata lanugine adeó minutá ut viz nist oculo armato percipi- 
endå ; tubus sesguiuncialis, laciniis limbi aliguotiês longior, 
The present is the species intended by Linnæus, in his 
Flora Zeylanica, for Ixora coccinea, as proved by the 
prototype-specimen in the Hermannian Herbarium at Sir 
Joseph Banks. Another species however has long and 
generally borne its name in the european collections, and 
filled its place in the recent botanical works, | For instance, 
in the late edition of the Hortus Kewensis and Curtis's 
Botanical Magazine; and we should think it misapplied 
criticism, to attempt to reinstate a name Ps "nr of 
priority, in face of a prescription $0 grounded. E E 
therefore corrected the error, by restoring the synonyms we 
deem to belong to the species; but have ay dig I 
specific title. (Osbeck, adduced as a synonym by Linnaeus, 
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