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branches round, smooth, bright green, the older ones armed 
with numerous large, strong, sharp thorns, the flower-bearing 
ramuli flexuose, with small, straight, axillary spines. Leaves 
alternate, short-petioled, oval, sometimes immarginate and 
slightly crenate, oftener entire, smooth, coriaceous, dark shin- 
ing green, mottled with white spots, and perforated with nu- 
merous pellucid points. Racemes in the axils of the spines, 
shorter than the leaves, somewhat capitate. Flowers numer- 
ous, fragrant, pure white. Calyx small, 4- or 5-lobed. Co- 
rolla 4—5-petaled, caducous. Petals obovate. Stamens 8 or 
10, a little shorter than the petals. Filaments subulate. 
Anthers erect, large in proportion to the flowers. Pistil : ger- 
men superior, elevated on a glandular receptacle, globular, 4- 
or 5-celled, with several ovules in each cell, one by one of 
which usually arrives at maturity. Style cylindrical. Stigma 
capitate. Pericarp a 4-or 5-celled berry: cells containing a 
very glutinous mucilaginous fluid, and one roundish seed, en- 
closed in a thick, firm, glandular, orange-like fruit. 
This tree is found, rather frequently, in sandy soil near the 
sea-coast, flowering towards the end of the cool season, and 
ripening its fruit about August or September. The corolla 
falls a few hours after expansion; hence it is difficult to pro- 
cure specimens in flower. That here "on was gathered 
about the beginning of March. 
Surp. Tas. XX XIII. Limonia Missionis. Fig. 1, Flower.’ 
Fig. 2, Section of a scarcely mature fruit. Fig. 3, Young 
seed. Fig. 4, Section of a riper fruit. Fig. 5, Seed. Fig. 
6, Section of do. :——moré or less magnified. 
XXXIV. 
IXORA PARVIFLORA. 
TETRANDRIA Mowooxwia; Nat. Ord. Bun Juss. 
Ixora parviflora; caule arboreo, foliis cordatis lanceolatis 
acutis sessilibus glabris, paniculis oblongis brachiatis, 
segmentis calycinis corollinisque obtusis. pun, Tar 
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