Irora. . TETRANDRIA MONOGYNIA. 329 
with dark-brown smooth bark ; height from three to four feet. 
— Leaves opposite, sub-sessile, oblong, entire, smooth on both sides. 
—Stipules interfoliaceous, long, taper, acute-pointed.— Corymbs 
terminal, very dense, sub-hemispheric, primary divisions brachiate, 
and short, extreme divisions trichotomous; all smooth and of a bright, 
deep red colour.— Flowers numerous, colour at first a lively orange 
approaching to scarlet, becoming deeper and deeper from the time of 
expausion.— Calyx bright red, fleshy ; divisions short and obtuse.—. 
Corol, tube cylindric. Border of four round spreading segments.— 
Filaments without the tube, short, spreading, flat, with their linear 
acute anthers over the divisions of the border of the corol.—Stigma 
two-cleft, elevated a little above the mouth of the tube. Berry . 
spherical, smooth, succulent, red, two- celled, with a single rugose., 
seed in each. i 
- Obs. In the. Botanic Gaiden, at Calcutta there is a more ramous . 
variety of this charming plant introduced from China where it is cal» . > 
led Hong-mou-tang, wìth pale pink lowers which it bears in abun- 
dance. all the year.* , FASES T 
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.S. I. alba. Linn. Sp. PI. ed. Willd. i. 906. ro - 
Leaves sessile, broad lauceolar. ` n Corymbs decompound, dense, 
sub-hemispherie ; lacinie of the corol obovate and CS h 
"Until f came to’ Bengal I had not an opportunity. of s seeing this ; 
elegant plant. Ihave found it only i in gardens. F lowering time | the - : 
ha and rainy seasons. The shrub itself i is much like Lvora coccinea. : 
. Ramous, « erect, and smooth in every | Mt... Leaves opposite, ses- ; 
sile, broad-lancéolar, smooth, a little ed i 
long. — Stipules within the leaves.— Cory ial 
or decom pound dense, often hemispheric ; ‘divisions o ors b-di 
by «rey. — Flowers ve y numerous, inodorous, white, with a s 
its ae 
rather longer and 1 more slender | tube than i in Ixora coccinea ; Ps . i 
of the border reflexed, obovate. 
Obs. This i is probably. nothing more than a variety of fT. stricta, | 
patie: 58i; DL 5 : 
g I. incarnata, Resi Más: eiim to Sir i E. Smith, I. cit.—-N. Wi B5 idi 
* This species is widely different from J. alba, Linn.--N. W. 
