164 LXX. RUBIACEH (HIERN). [ Ixora. 
1 in. diameter ; lobes oval, obtuse, glabrous. Anthers partly included. 
Style exserted to half the length of the corolla-lobes, bifid at the tip. 
Fruit 2 in. diameter—I. Brunonis, Hort. ex Walp. Rep. vi. p. 45, non 
Wall. 
Mozamb. Distr. Mozambique, Forbes ! 
Occurs also in Madagascar. 
3. XZ. laxiflora, Smith in Rees Oycl. xix. n. 8. From a shrub of 
3~4 feet to a small bushy tree. Leaves oval-oblong or narrowly ellip- 
tical, more or less acuminate or acute, narrowed at the base sometimes 
very shortly so or rarely (especially the uppermost ones which are 
also smaller) rounded, chartaceous, variable in size, in some specimens 
ranging up to 9 by 24 in. besides the petiole, which ranges up to § in.; 
lateral veins numerous, slender, spreading ; stipules connate below, 
ovate, apiculate, keeled at least towards the apex, }-} in. long. 
Flowers about 1 in. long when expanded, fragrant, on rather slender 
pedicels ranging up to 8 in., in lax trichotomously branched peduncu- 
late hemispherical terminal panicles of 2-8 in. diameter; common 
peduncle 1-2 in. ; bracteoles small, opposite, ovate, acute, at the base of 
each ramification of the inflorescence, the uppermost at the base of the 
calyx. Calyx red, ~, in. long, ovoid ; teeth short, broad, obtuse, sub- 
connivent. Corolla white, tinged with pink; tube slender, lobes 
$-4 iv. long, obovate-oblong, obtusely pointed, more or less pubescent 
towards the base inside or obsoletely so. Anthers about }-% in. long, 
exserted. Style exserted by the length of the corolla-lobes, at length 
bilobed above. Fruit } in. long, 2 in. diameter, didymous, red.—Bot. 
Mag. t. 4482; I brachypoda, DC. Prodr. iv. p. 488, calyx obscurely 
5-dentate, according to De Candolle; J. odoratissima, Klotzsch in 
Schoen]. Bot. Nach]. 227, t. 1. 
Upper Guinea. Sierra Leone, Whitfield! Barter! (Sugar Loaf Mountain) 
and others; Grand Bassam, Middicton! Th. Vogel! Bagroo River, Mann! Cape 
Palmas, Ansell! Th. Vogel! Senegambia, Perrottet and Leprieur ; Fernando Po, 
ann! 
4, I. Thomsoni, Hiern. A shrub with terete branches. Leaves 
oval, acuminate, obtusely narrowed at the base, firmly chartaceous, 
glossy above, 2-4 by 1-2 in.; lateral veins about 6 pairs, slender ; mar- 
gins rather revolute ; petiole 3 in. ; stipules mach apiculate from a short 
broad connate base, 4 in. long, caducous. Flowers white, nearly 4 in. 
long when expanded, on glabrous rather slender pedicels of 3-3 i2., 2 
lax trichotomous terminal shortly pedunculate panicles of 3-4 in. dia- 
meter ; bracteoles ovate or lanceolate, small, ciliolate, the uppermost 
at the middle or base of the pedicels. Calyx campanulate, 7/5 in- long, 
glabrous ; lobes 5, ovate, subobtuse. Corolla glabrous on both sides ; 
lobes 5 (—4 ?), oblong-lanceolate, subacute, equalling the tube, glabrous. 
Antbers exserted, sessile, 4 in. long, caudate-apiculate. Style exceed- 
ing the corolla-tube by 4 in., glabrous, bifid at the tip. 
Upper Guinea. Old Calabar, Rev. W. C. Thomson! 
5. Z. riparia, Hiern. A shrub, 15 feet high. Branches asby. 
Leaves elliptical, acuminate at both ends, chartaceous, pale at leas 
