other garden Ixoras, J. lutea is easily cultivated under moist 
tropical conditions, and like them, when in flower, is an 
exceedingly attractive plant. 
Descriprion.—Shrub, 2-3 ft. high, erect; young twigs 
at first finely puberulous, at length glabrous. Leaves 
oblong-elliptic, distinctly mucronate, base somewhat un- 
equally cordate, 3-34 in. long, 12-2 in. wide, thinly papery, 
margin slightly recurved, pale green, glabrous on both sur- 
faces, lateral nerves about 10 on each side of the midrib, 
spreading, looping within the margin, raised beneath, 
secondary venation lax, distinct both above and below; 
petiole stout, 7-8 lin. long, finely puberulous; stipules long 
subulate from a wide base, 4-5 lin. long, about 24 lin. wide 
at the base, glabrous. Corymbs lax-flowered, about 23 in. 
across; main branches up to # in. long, finely puberulous; 
bracts triangular-subulate, acute, about 1 lin. long. Flowers 
pale yellow, sessile. eceptacle under 1 lin. long, puberulous. 
Calya 4-lobed ; lobes wide ovate, subacute, under 1 lin. long, 
nearly as wide, coriaceous, their margins membranous and 
at times sparingly toothed, finely puberulous outside, pecti- 
nately glandular at the base within. Corolla 4-lobed; tube 
cylindric, 14 in. long, very slender, glabrous outside; limb 
about 1 in. across; lobes ovate-rhomboid, mucronulate, 
6-8 lin, long, 2$—-4 lin. wide, glabrous. Anthers almost 
sessile, exserted, 2 lin. long, acutely acuminate. Ovary 
2-celled ; style slender, glabrous, shortly exserted, its arms 
1 lin. long, slightly recurved and flattened on the inner face. 
Fig. 1, calyx and pistil; 2, section of calyx and ovary; 3 and 4, stamens :— 
all enlarged. 
