and very fragrant. It thrives well in a tropical house 
under the treatment suitable for Ixoras. Two other 
members of the genus are in cultivation; these are 
E. caribaeum, Roem. and Schult., and £. longiflorum, Roem. 
and Schult.; the latter has been figured at t. 4186 of this 
work. 
Description.—Shrub, as grown at Kew about 3 ft. high, 
according to Jacquemont attaining in the wild state a height 
of 10 ft.; branches terete, when young shortly puberulous, 
at length becoming glabrous; bark grey. Leaves ovate or 
ovate-lanceolate, more or less subcordate at the base, acumi- 
nate at the apex, margin revolute, 2-3 in. long, 1-1} in. 
wide, thinly leathery, finely puberulous above and below; 
lateral nerves 6-8-paired, somewhat depressed above, 
prominent beneath; stipules ovate-triangular, acute, 1} lin. 
long. Inflorescence terminal, leafy, subcorymbose ; branchlets 
puberulous ; pedicels slender, 3—4 lin. long; bracts linear 
or subulate. Receptacle long ellipsoid, finely puberulous. 
Calyz-lobes linear, obtuse or subacute, 3-4 lin. long, almost 
glabrous. Corolla white, fragrant; tube narrowly cylindric, 
3-3 in. long, glabrous outside; lobes linear, obtuse, about 
1 in. long, 1 lin. wide. Stamens far exserted; filaments 
filiform, 8 lin. long; anthers yellow, 5 lin. long. Style far 
exserted, slender, glabrous, 13-2 in. long; stigma ovoid. 
Fruit oblong-obovoid, nearly 4 in. long, about } in. wide at 
the apex. 
Fig. 1, calyx and pistil; 2 and 3, anthers ; 4, stigma :—all enlarged. 
