- "383 ' FETRANDRIA MONOGYXTA. Teor, 
- "Trunk short, soon dividing into many strage gling weak branches, 
covered with smooth dark-brown bark. Leaves opposite, shorts 
pétioled, lanceolate, entire, acute, smooth on both sides; from six 
to eight inches long, and from one to three broad. ` Stipules con- 
necting, with an acute point on each side. Coryinbs terminal, com- 
posed of short, decussate, highly coloured branches, and branchlets, 
supporting numerous, short-peduncled, long-tubed, pretty large, 
scarlet flowers, with the four segments of their border acute, and 
broad-lanceolate, stamens erect. Berry two-lobed, size of a mar- 
rowfat pea, smooth, when ripe of a deep purple, two-celled. Seeds 
solitary, nearly round, convex on the back, witha deep cavity on the 
inside, and from thence attached by a thick short cord to’the centre 
of the partition. Integuments two, the exterior corresponding with 
what Gartner calls the arillus in Coffea, ash-coloured, and firm like 
parchment ; the inner membranaceous, and darker coli 
risperm conform to the seed, pale blue, and of a soft cartilaginous 
consistence. ` Embryo erect, one-third shorter than the [enge 
curved. Coipledons two, cordate. Radicle sube eu, p. 4 
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4. = stricta. R.* 
~“ Shrubby, straight. | Leaves sub- sessile, atur: Cyndi dine | 
compound, hiweanbesin. Lacinie of the corol round, spreat d 
Anthers bristle-pointed. 
Ixora coccinea. OP oe Cochinch. 90: Curtis 5 Botaniosh Mage 
zines No. 169.» 
- Flamma sylvarum. peregrina. Ramp. aur iw. 107.4 t t AT. d 
"This beautiful plant was. brought to the Botanic Garden from 
Melitta in 1798, where it i is in constant. blossom. the ychole 
round; but rarely ripens its fruits. The plant; when i in fi 
highly ornamental, though by no means so gaudy as I. coccinea 
Bandhuca, which are certainly two of our most showy Indian shrubs. 
— drunk ie any, but a few ins. — branches, whi ' 
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