Both Rheede and Rumphius dcfcribe and figure this 

 plant in their refpeciive works, the Hortus Malabaricus and 

 Herbarium Amboincnfe ; it is mentioned a Kb by fe vera I other 

 authors: from their various accounts we difcover, that in 

 different parts of India, where it grows wild, it forms a 

 flender fhrub, or tree, about fix feet high, riling generally 

 with a fingle Item; that its clufters of flowers, feen from afar, 

 are fo brilliant as to refemble a burning coal, efpccially in a 

 dark wood, whence its name of Fiavima Sylvarum ; that it 

 grows in the woods, and flowers in September and October, 

 producing a black fruit, the fize of fmall cherries, on which 

 the peacocks are fuppofed to feed, and from whence they 

 have obtained the name of Cera/a Pavomna. The Chinefe 

 call it Santanhoa ; with them it produces flowers and fruit 

 the year through, and they hold the bloffoms in luch venera- 

 tion, as to ufe them in the facrifices they make to their idol 

 IxoRA, whence Linnaeus has taken the name applied by 

 him to this genus. The root is faid to poflefs fome acrimony, 

 and to be made ufe of by the natives in curing the tooth- 

 ach. 



It is cuftomary in this country, to treat the Ixora as a 

 ftove plant; perhaps it may be lets tender than we are aware 

 of; it flowers in July and Auguft, but has not been known 

 to produce fruit ; is increafed from cuttings, without much 

 difficulty. 



Our drawing was taken from a fmall but very healthy plant 

 in the ftove of Mr. Whitley (late Thoburn and Whitley, 

 Bromptonj. 



Linnveus defcribes, and fome authors figure this plant with 

 ftipulae, which our plant had not, not being arrived at an 

 a ge, perhaps, to produce them. 



