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IXORA cuneifolia. 
Dacta Ixora. 
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TETBANDRIA MONOGYNIA. 
Nat. ord. RuBIACEX. Jussieu gen. 196. Div. VI. Fructus monocar- 
pus bilocularis dispermus. Stamina 4. Folia opposita; caulis plerümque 
frutescens. 
IXORA. Supra vol. 2. fol. 100. 
I. cuneifolia, fruticosa, foliis lató-cuneatis, lanceolatis, acuminatis; corym- 
bis terminalibus, pedunculo communi longo; florbus congestis; ca- 
lycis segmentis oblongis conicis. Roxburgh flor. ind. 1. 390; (ex angl. 
vers.) 
Caudex brevis. Rami oppositi, suberecti, teretes, cortice glabro fusco; 
novelli glabri virentes. Fol. opposita, brevé petiolata, lata, cuneata, lan- 
ceolata, recurva, integra, acuminata apice obtuso, levigata, firma, subbul- 
lato-rugata, 4-6-uncialia latitudine sesqui-biunciali. Stipulæ subulato-at- 
tenuate acute. Corymbi trichotomi ; ramuli fasciculis subsessilibus congestis 
terminati. Bractex (dilute carneæ) subulate, paria opposite, corymbi 
divisuris calycique arctè supposite ( minimae). Flores odorati, numerosissimi, 
candidi, extüs rubedine aliquá dilutissime suffusi. Cal. ad basin usque par- 
titus, segmentis longis, angustis, acutis (subcarneis, erectis, ‚glanduloso- 
denticulatis, bracteis pluriès latioribus). Corolla tubus cylindricus, gracil- 
limus, longitudine fer? 3 uncie; limbi laciniæ tubo bis breviores vel magis 
(ob revoluta latera mox post expansimem convexo-angustate). Antheræ 
lineari-anguste, basi profunde sagittate (lobulis subreflexis ). Stigmata 
linearia, altiüs à stylo extra tubum elevata. Germ. virens, ovato-globosum, 
biloculare, loculis monospermis, seminibus septo medio affixis. Bacca glo- 
boso-turbinatu, magnitudine Cerasi minoris, let rubens, glabra, bilocularis. 
Semina solitaria, rotunda, ovalia, à latere exteriore convexa, ab interiore 
serobiculo profundo impressa. Yntegumentum duplex ; exterius putamineum ; 
interius membranaceum, subvirescens. Albumen semini conforme. Embryo 
erectus, secundùm convexitatem seminis curvatus. Cotyledones reniformes. 
Radicula cylindrica, longitudine cotyledonum, infera. Roxburgh l. c.; (ex 
anglico versum.) 
Now first introduced by Messrs. Colvill, of the Chelsea 
Nursery, from the East Indies; where it grows, according 
to Dr. Roxburgh, in the country about Dacca; from 
whence seeds were sent by the late Colonel Peter Murray 
to the botanic garden at Calcutta, in which the plant suc- 
ceeds and ripens its fruit. 
“ Vahl's figure of Ixora parviflora (symb. bot. 3. t. 52.) 
is much like this plant; his description agrees, however, 
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