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Found in a garden at Pulo Penang.— Arborescent, with 
grey bark. Leaves alternate, petiolate, 6-7 inches long, obo- 
vate, (or cuneately ovate,) obtuse, very entire, very smooth, — 
yellowish green. Petioles one inch long, flattened above, ^ - 
thickened at the base. Spikes lateral, generally below the — 
leaves. Flowers geminate, on a bifid pedicel. Bracts very —— 
small. Perianth 4-leaved, leaflets revolute, dilated, and 
stamen-bearing at the summit. Stamens 4: anthers linear, — — 
nearly sessile. Style filiform. Stigma clavate. Ovarium — . 
1-celled, dispermous. 
Oss. In the preceding, the leaves are acuminate, and the — — 
flowers in pairs, each with its proper pedicel; in this, the — 
leaves are rounded and obtuse at the apex, and the flowers — 
are geminate on a common pedicel. 
IXORA PENDULA. WJ. 
Nat. Ord. Rupracez. 1 
Foliis elliptico-lanceolatis glaberrimis, corymbis longe pe 
> dunculatis pendulis. E o: 
Bunga yarum. Malay.—Native of Pulo Penang, &c.—AÀ - 
shrub, with smooth, compressed branches. Leaves opposite, 
shortly petioled, 11-12 inches long, elliptically lanceolate, — 
rather obtuse, very entire, very smooth, shining above. Pe- 
tioles little more than half an inch long. Stipules interpetio- — 
lar, broad at the base, ending in a subulate point. Corymbs — 
terminal, long-peduncled, hanging, trichotomous, many- 
flowered. Flowers red. Bracts 2, small, at the base of the 
calyx. Calyx small, 4-partite, slightly tomentose. Corolla 
red: tube long and slender: limb 4-parted, lobes ovate, lan- 
ceolate, rather acute, Stamens spreading. Style filiform. - 
Stigma clavate. | 
This is a beautiful species, at once distinguishable by its 
long pendulous corymbs. Bunga yarum is the generic Malay 
name of the Izore, 
