Txora, TETRANDRIA MONOGYNIA, > 387 
15. tenuiflora. R. oath piag. bs 
Leaves short-petioled, oblong, obtuse, smooth. Panieles t 
minal, corymbiform, contracted, Segments of the calyx « cor- 
date, and obtuse, tube of the corol long, and most slender. 
Segments of its border oblong, obtuse, ‘tind longer than the 
erect style,.or stamina, — 
A native of the Moluccas, and with flowers infinitely more 
delicate than I. fulgens which it most resembles, | 
#16. I; congesta, R. : 
Shrubby. Leaves short-petioled, oblong, strongly veined. 
Corymbs terminal, short, dense. Flowers sub-sessile. Seq- 
ments of the calyx obscurely reniform; those of the border 
of the corol oblong, and obtuse. 
A native of the Moluccas, and differs from I _fulgensin the 
firm somewhat coriaceous leaves, with sgehin a veins, , 
17. I. lanceolaria, Colebr. 
Shrubby, smooth; branches slender, penile wads 
chotomous, Leaves: in appeexeents pairs, very long, linear- 
lanceolate, acuminate, short-petioled. Corymb terminal, sub- 
sessile, small, with coloured sealy, crowded peduncles, Tube 
of the corol filiform; lacinie linear-oblong. Anthers ek 
with deeply bifid iets: he 
A native of Travancore. Introduced into the Botanic faci 
den by Dr, A. Berry in 1803. Time of blossoming the hot 
season ; the fruit ripens towards the close of the rains, 
An erect shrub, five, six, or even more feet high, with di- _ 
chotomous, very little spreading, ash-coloured branches, 2 
Branchlets very slender and twiggy, hanging, green, ' with: — 
numerous compressed widened joints, like all the other parts’ 
of the plant smooth. Leaves spreading, from five to seven 
inches long and almost as ‘many times exceeding their in- 
terstices, an inch or less broad. a little above their acute base, 
from thence tapering into a sharp acumen, opaque and some- 
what glaucous above, pale beneath, with a slender white rib> 
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