Tas. 8439. 
IXORA LUTEA. 
Garden Origin. 
 Rupracear, Tribe Ixorean. 
Ixora, Linn.; Benth, et Hook. f. Gen. Plant. vol. ii. p. 113. 
Ixora lutea, Hutchinson ; affinis J. coccineae, Linn., sed inflorescentia laxiore, 
floribus ochroleucis, corollae lobis ovato-rhomboideis abrupte mucronulatis 
differt. 
Frutex erectus, vix 1 m. altus; rami juniores minute puberuli, demum glabri. 
Folia oblongo-elliptica, apice conspicue mucronata, basi paullo inaequaliter 
cordata, 7-9 cm. longa, 4-5 cm. lata, tenuiter chartacea, margine leviter 
recurvata, utrinque glabra, pallida, nervis lateralibus utrinque circiter 10. 
patulis intra marginem anastomosantibus subtus prominulis, venis laxis 
utrinque distinctis; petioli crassi, 1°5 mm. longi, minute puberuli; 
stipulae e basi lato longe subulatae, 7-10 mm. longae, basi circiter 5 mm. 
latae, glabrae. Corymbi laxiflori, circiter 12 cm. expansi; rami primarii ad 
2 em. longi, minute puberuli; bracteae triangulari-subulatae, acutae, 
1-5-2 mm. longae. lores ochroleuci, sessiles. Receptaculum 1°5 mm. 
longum, puberulum. Calycis lobi 4, late ovati, subacuti, 1:75 mm. longi, 
1:5 mm. lati, coriacei, margine leviter membranacei et interdum pauci- 
dentati, extra minute pubernuli, intra basi pectinatim multiglandulosi. 
Corollae tubus cylindricus, 3°5 em. longus, vix 1 mm. diametro, extra 
glaber; limbus 3 cm. expansus; lobi 4, ovato-rhomboidei, mucronulati, 
1-3-1°7 cm. longi, 0°5-0°8 cm. lati, glabri. -Antherae subsessiles, exsertae, 
4mm. longae, acute acuminatae. Ovarium 2-loculare ; stylus gracilis, glaber, 
paullo exsertus, ramis leviter recurvatis intra complanatis 2 mm. longis.— 
Izora coccinea var. lutea, Hort. ex Veitch Cat. Indoor Pi. 1910, p. 47.— 
J. HurcHrnson, 
The beautiful Zora here figured is one that has been in 
cultivation at Kew for at least a couple of decades. It was 
originally received from the Royal Botanic Garden, Pera- 
deniya, Ceylon, under the garden name J. coccinea, var. 
lutea, and under this name it is now to be met with in 
many private collections and in various nursery catalogues. 
It is certainly, as this garden name implies, most nearly 
allied to 1. coccinea, figured long ago at t. 169 of this work. 
But it is readily distinguished from J. coccinea, not only by 
the colour of its flowers, but by its more Jax inflorescence 
and by the larger ovate-rhomboid corolla lobes, though in 
habit and foliage it bears a close general resemblance to the 
various named forms of J. coccinea in cultivation. Like these 
dons, 1912, 
