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IxORA COCCINEA. SCARLET IxORA. 



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Oafs and Order. 

 Tetrandria Monogynia. 



Generic Character. 



Cor. 1-petala, infundibuliformis, longa, fupera, Stamina fupra 

 faucem. Bacca 4-fperma. 



Specific Character and Synonyms. 



IXORA coccinea foliis ovalibus femiamplexicaulibus, floribus 

 fafciculatis. Linn. Syji. Vegetab. ed. 14. Murr. Ait. 

 Hot. Kew. p. 148. 

 JASMINUM indicum, iauri folio, inodorum umbellatum, 

 floribus coccincis. Pluk. aim. 196. /. 59. /• 2 - 

 CERASUS zeylanica humilis fylveftris, floribus holofericeis 

 intenfe rubris umbellatine congeftis, fruftibui 

 nigris. MuJ. Zcyl. p. 15. 

 FLAMMA SYLVARUM humph. Amb. 4. p. 105. /. 4.6. 



It will appear ftrange, we prefume, to moil of our readers, 

 when they are informed, that the Ixora coccinea, a plant at 

 prefent in few hands, and which a fhort time fince was 

 fold in fome of our nurferies for five guineas, fhould have 

 been known in this country a hundred years ago; aqd yet 

 Mr. Aiton, who has fo kuidabl'y exerted himfelf, in alcer- 

 taining the precife period, when moft of the exotics culti- 

 vated in the royal garden at Kew firft made their appearance 

 in Great-Britain, informs us on very refpeftabre authonty> 

 that this plant was introduced by Mr. Bentick in 169O. 



There is every reafon to fuppofe, that this fplendid exotic 

 did not long furvive its introduction ; on inquiry, we learn 

 that it was reintroduced about fifteen years ago, by the late 

 Dr. John Fothergill, a name, to medicine and botany 

 ever dear, in whofe rich and magnificent collection at Upton 

 it was firft known to flower; about the fame time, the late 

 Mr. Thoburn, Nurferyman at Brompion,. raifed a te* 

 Ixoras from foreign feeds, and from thefe (an accident havin 

 happened to the plant which was Dr. Fother gill's) ar 

 faid to have arifen the plants at prefent in this country. 



