394 |. TETRANDRIA MONOGYNIA. Ixora, 
Arboreous. Leaves sub-sessile, oblong, smooth. Panicles ovate 
oblong, decussated. Lacinie of the corol oval. Style hairy, Bers 
ries round. 
= Gundhal-rungun. 
"eling. T'adda-pullu. 
chii the mountains of the Coast of, Coromandel! this species 
grows to be a pretty large tree ; in the low lands it is much smaller, 
seldom exceeding fifteen or twenty feet in height. Flowenng time 
February and March. . 
Bark dark-coloured, anio ciens opposite, short-petioled, 
linear-oblong, pointed at the base, often cordate ; smooth, shining, 
firm, entire, from three to four inches long, and from one and a half 
to two broad.— Stipules as in I. coccinea. — Panicles ovate, termi- 
nal, erect, cross-armed ; divisions always three-forked. — Bractes. at 
the principal divisions stipulaceous, with four subulate processes 5 
the rest are small, one below each ramification.— Flowers small, 
white, fragrant. The style is hairy. —Berry generally two-seeded, 
somewhat two-lobed, size of a pea, black. 
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Jt. X. barbata. R* 
‘Tube of the corol long; mouth bearded. Leaves opposite, short- 
petioled, oblong, entire, smooth, shining ; floral leaves round, cor- 
date, sessile. . Panicles open. | ; 
This elegant, densely ramous, large shrub, or r aa tree, I have 
found only in the Botanic Garden. Flowering time the hot season. 
Trunk scarcely any, branches numerous, opposite. Leaves oppo- 
site, short-petioled, oblong, entire, smooth, and shining ou bo 
sides, from six to nine inches long.— Stipules within the leaves as ill 
the other species.—Corymbs, or rather panicles terminal, decom- 
pound, large, diffuse, always trichotomous, smooth i in every part.— 
Bractes, the lowermost pair embracing the base of the common 
peduncle, large, and cordate, (they may be called floral leaves ;) the 
* This plant must not be confounded with Fendi barbata of Sir J. E Smith ia 
Rees's Cyclopzdia, in loco.—N. W. 
