Tas. 4399. 
IXORA LANcEoLarRia. 
Lance-leaved Izxora. 
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Nat. Ord. RuBrackm.—TETRANDRIA Monoaynta. 
Gen. Char. (Vide supra, TaB. 4325.) 
Txora lanceolaria ; foliis brevi-petiolatis lanceolato-acuminatis basi latioribus 
glabris, stipulis lanceolato-subulatis, corymbis trichotomis, floribus (virescen- 
ti-albidis) laxiusculis, ovario basi bibractéolato, segmentis calycinis linearibus 
erectis tubo longioribus, corollee tubo gracili lobis lineari-oblongis obtusis 
demum marginibusque reflexis, filamentis exsertis, antheris. lineari-subulatis 
basi bifidis, stylo longius exserto, stigmate clavato apice bifido. 
Txona lanceolaria. Colebr. in Roxb. Fl. Ind. p. 387. ed. Wail. v. 1. p. 397. De 
Cand. Prodr. v.4. p.488. Spreng. Syst. Veget. v.1. p. 409. Wight et 
Arn. Fl. Penins. Ind. Or. p.429. Wight, Ic. Pl. Ind. Or. t. 827. 
A graceful shrub, received from the East Indies, by favour of 
the Calcutta Botanic Garden, without any name, but which 
accords so well with the description and figure above quoted of 
L. lanceolaria, that I have little hesitation in referring it to that 
Species. It requires the heat of a stove for its successful culti- 
vation, and then it flowers with us in April. It is an inhabitant 
of Travancore, where it was first found by Mr. Colebrooke, and 
of Courtallam, where Dr. Wight detected it, but who speaks of 
it as a rare plant. In our individual the flowers. have a greenish 
tint, which are elsewhere described as white. ce 
Dzscr. A shrub with us in the young (but flowering state) 
not yet two feet high, but which, according to Roxburgh, oe 
a height of from five to seven and more feet, erect, with dic 10- 
tomous, scarcely spreading, terete, slender branches. Leaves 
patent, often a span long, on short petioles, lanceolate, acumi- 
nate, somewhat coriaceous, broader at the base, with the = 
parallel and almost at right angles from the midrib. Stipul 
between lanceolate and subulate, rather small, erect. fire 
terminal (but often with a young branch arising on each si 2 
Pedunculate ; the peduncle bearing two small leaves like those ‘ 
the stem. Branches trichotomous. Flowers rather lax, greenis 
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