IXORA crocata. 
Colvill’s new Chinese Ixora. 
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TETRANDRIA MONOGYNIA, 
Nat. ord. RuBIacE®. Jussieu gen. 196. Div. VI. Fructus monocar- 
pus bilocularis dispermus. Stamina 4. Folia opposita, caulis pleràmque 
frutescens. 
IXORA., Suprà vol. 2. fol. 10. 
I. crocata, foliis firmis subcoriaceis, ovali-lanceolatis deorsüm longiùs 
attenuatis; cymis copiosifloris decompositis confertis fastigiatis; calyce 
brevissimo, dentibus ovato-acutatis; limbi laciniis cuneato-obovatis, 
tubo ter magisve brevioribus; antheris sessilibus ; styli medio parce 
piloso. 
Folia 4-5 uncialia latitudine sesquiunciali vel majore, erecto-patentia, acu- 
tula: stipulae. virentes, inferné latissime, aristá subulatá abrupté terminate. 
Cyma decomposite densiores erecta fastigiate convexiuscule: pedunculi 
primarii rubri teretes, pube subtili conspersi, bracteis binis oppositis brevis- 
simis oblato-acuminatis coloratis aretê ad divisuras subtensi vel lapsarum 
vestigio annulato-impressi: secundarii trichotomi: proprii wniffori, breves, 
basi bracteati. Cal. brevissimus coccineus glaber, dentibus quinque ovato- 
acuminatis. Corolla crocea, erecta glabra: tubus sesquiuncialis: limbus 
diametro subunciali, laciniis cuneato-obovatis divaricato-explanatis subequa- 
libus, tubo ter magisve brevioribus. Anthere flave sessiles adnate introrse 
(estivatione oblonge quadrisulce fulve apice glanduloso acuto luteo termi- 
nate, basi lutescentes glandulose obtuse, filamento subnullo vel brevissimo). 
Stylus capillaris, tubo «qualis, ruber, medio vel juxtà parce pilosus; cate- 
rum glaber. 
Said to have been lately introduced by Mr. Colvill from 
China, and to have flowered this autumn (for the first time) 
in the hothouse of the Chelsea Nursery, under the skilful su- 
perintendance of Mr.Sweet; who thinks it distinct from the 
well-known Ixona coccinea (Curtis's magaz. 169; Ixora s/ricía 
of the Flora Indica, chinensis of Lamarck, and flammea of 
Salisbury and Smith in Rees's Cyclopedia; but certainly not 
coccinea of Linnzeus, which is grandiflora (fol. 154) of the 
present work), by a firmer thicker leathery paler green 
leaf, by segments to the corolla which are not round, as 
well as by general habit, and an orange-red inflorescence 
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