Tas. 5197. 
IXORA sucunpDa. 
Mr. Thwaites’s Ixora. 
Nat. Ord. Ruprace®.—TETRANDRIA Monoaynia. 
Gen. Char. (Vide supra, Tas. 4325.) 
Txora jucunda ; foliis glabris lanceolatis v. ovato-lanceolatis acuminatis basi an- 
gustatis petiolatis, corymbis primariis elongatis, bracteolis parvis acutis, 
segmentis calycinis truncatulis ovario brevioribus. Thwaites. 
Ixora jucunda. Thwaites, Enum. Plant. Zeyl. p. 155. 
Izora is a genus of plants almost peculiar to tropical Asia, of 
which thirty-four kinds are enumerated by De Candolle, in the 
fourth volume of his ‘ Prodromus,’ which appeared in 1830. 
Many additions have been since made by Wallich and Wight 
and Bentham, etc. But it must be confessed that many of the 
species are so described that they are very difficult of determi- 
nation. It is very fortunate therefore when, as in the present 
instance, we have the discoverer and describer of the species as 
the authority for the name. ‘This is one of the many interesting 
plants of Ceylon we have received from our valued friend Mr. 
Thwaites. Of it he enumerates two varieties, differing in the 
breadth of the leaves, and much more remarkably in the length 
of the tube of the corolla, sometimes only two to three lines 
long ; sometimes, as in our plant, fourteen lines long. It is not 
an uncommon species, attaining on the hills an elevation of 
4,000 feet. It first produced its flowers with us, in the stove, 
in May, 1860. 
Dzscr. A shrub, with much the aspect of Irvora acuminata, . 
Boxb. ; in its native country from ten to twenty feet high, with - 
subcoriaceous, opposite /eaves, three to seven or eight inches long, 
and, according to Thwaites, one to four inches broad, obscurely 
penniveined, broad-lanceolate, but varying from narrow-lanceo- 
late to ovato-lanceolate on the same or on different specimens, 
rather abruptly acuminate, tapering below into a short petiole 
AuGusT Ist, 1860. 
