Lxora, TETRANDRIA MONOGYNIA, 375- 
entire, acute, pointed, generally five or seven-nerved, though 
in the largest there are sometimes nine, and in the smallest 
three, or even sometimes obliterated ; these nerves are armed _ 
with small recurved prickles, like those on the angles of the 
branchlets ; both sides channelled. Panicles terminal, oblong, 
composed of numerous, opposite, small, sub-globular, tricho- 
tomous panicles from the axill of the floral leaves. Peduncles 
and pedicels four-sided, smooth. Bractes opposite, sessile, 
long, cordate. Flowers numerous, minute. Calyz, if any, 
so minute as not to be visible. Corol flat, five-parted ; divi- 
sions lanceolate, acute, with points inflected. Stamens five, 
shorter than the corol. Germ beneath, twin. Style scarce- 
ly any, stigma large, two-cleft. Berries two, or one; the 
second not always coming to maturity, globular, size of a 
small grain of pepper, smooth. Seed single, round, Se iattl e 
with a deep pit on one side. 
Obs, It differs from R. cordifolia in: being ited: 
The roots, stems, and larger branches are used to dye red 
with, : e 
IXORA* Schreb. gen. N. 167. 
"Calyx four-toothed. Corol one-petalled, funnel-shaped. 
Tube long, with the stamina in its mouth, Germ two-celled, 
one-seeded, lateral. Berry inferior, two-seeded. Embryo . 
erect, curved, and furnished with a perisperm, 
1.1. coccinea, Linn, sp. pl. ed, Willd, i. 609. 
Shrubby. Leaves oblong, cordate, sessile, acute, smooth, 
entire. Segments of the corol ovate-lanceolate, acute, Berry 
crowned with the shut segments of the calyx. 
Schetti, Rheed, Mal. ii. p. 17.4. 12. is isa pretty good figure 
- © Sir William sale observes: (Ada: Red! ‘iv. 251), that no 
Indian god was ever named Ixora ; he adds at the same time that 
Iswara, which is indeed a title of Shiva, would be a very impro- 
per appellation of a plant which has already a classical name. 
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