376 TETRANDRIA MONOGYNITA, | Txora. 
of it, but the description of. the colour of aoe flowers. he not 
so well agree. 
Jasminum flore tetrapetalo. Burm. Zeyl. 125. t. 57, good. 
In the Tanjore country and in China I have found. this 
most beautiful shrub in great abundance in its wild state. 
In a cultivated state it flowers all the year round, I have 
had it eight years in my garden, and it is not more than three 
-or four feet high, with many erect branches, but scareely 
any thing like a trunk. 
Leaves opposite, sessile, approximated, dicimaties shia, 
pointed, entire, smooth, shining, from three to four inches 
Jong, and one and a half broad. Stipules within the leaves 
with an awled process on each side. Corymb terminal, 
three-forked. Bractes small, rigid. Peduncles and pedicels 
short, coloured. lowers numerous, pretty large, bright 
scarlet, inodorous. Calyx four-toothed; divisions acute. 
Corol, stamens and pisiil as in the genus. Berry size of a 
small cherry, red, juicy, two-celled, Seed = convex. 
on one side, and flat on the other. 
Obs, Flamma sylvarum. Rumph. Amb. iv. p. 105. t. 46, 
is a very bad representation of this species, and much more 
like my Ixora fulgens, 1 have therefore doubtfully, quoted 
it for that plant. 
od Ee & Bandhuca. R. : 
erie: spreading. Leaves wands sedges Tepes 
crowded. Segments of the corol cee obsuse.!1 apes 
_ crowned with the open calyx. oats a Stee Sees 
Asiat, Res, iv. p. 250. 5 eel roo 
Sans, Ruktuka, Bundhooka, or Bundhooka, Bandar 
vuka, 
Beng. Rangun, Rujuna. 
_A very elegant, uncommonly. ramous, Sule rae 
native of Hindoostan, Sir: William Jones observes that the 
flower is often mentioned by the best Indian Poets. It isin 
