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 Ixora, TETRANDRIA MONOGYNTA, 379 
A, I. stricta. R. : Sadteiy 
_ Shrubby, straight, Leaves sub-sessile, oblong. Corymbs 
dense, compound, hemispheric. Lacini@ of the corol round, | 
spreading. Anthers bristle-pointed. 
Ixora coccinea. Lourier, Cochin Ch. 95, Curtis’s Botanical 
Magazine, No. 169. 
- Flamma sylvarum peregrina. Rumph. Amb. iv. 107. t. AT. 
This beautiful plant was brought to the Botanie garden 
‘from the Moluccas in 1798, where it is in constant blossom 
the whole year round ; but rarely ripens its fruits. The plant, 
when in flower is highly ornamenta® though by no means so 
gaudy as I, coccinea and Bandhuca, which are certainly two 
of our most showy Indian shrubs. 
‘Trunk scarcely any, but a few perfectly achiaks branches, 
covered with dark-brown smooth bark ; height from three to 
four feet. Leaves opposite, sub-sessile, chalaes 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 approach- 
ing to scarlet, becoming deeper and deeper from the time of 
expansion, Calyx bright red, fleshy ; divisions short and ob- 
tuse, 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 ineach, 
- Obs, In the Botanic garden at Calcutta PEE 
mous variety of this charming plant introduced from China, 
where it is called Hong-mou-tang, with a: — flowers 
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5. I. alba: Linn. sp. zh ie i. 906: 
Leaves sessile, broad-lanceolar, Corymbs decompound, 
