370 EUBIACEAE. 



borad, with 5 acute lobes, the style a little exserted, is commonly planted in 

 gardens and on lawns. 



Ixora macrothyrsa Teijsm. & Binn., DUFFY'S IXORA, also East Indian, a 

 large shrub with glabrous oblong-lanceolate acuminate leaves 8'-12' long, the 

 crimson flowers in clusters often 8' broad, the corolla with 5 blunt lobes, was 

 grown at Paget Eeotory in 1914. [I. Duffii Moore.] 



Three other species of East Indian Ixoras mentioned by Jones and by 

 Lefroy, were planted at Mt. Langton in 1870 or 1874, I. javanica DC., 1. 

 amboynae DC. and /. acuminata Boxb. 



Gardenia jasminoides Ellis, CAPE JESSAMINE, Chinese, an evergreen shrub 

 becoming 6 high, with elliptic short-petioled, acute or acuminate leaves 2'-4' 

 long, its fragrant white, often double flowers 2'-3' broad, is occasionally 

 planted for ornament. [G. florida L. ; G. Fortunei of gardeners.] 



A colored picture postal card, purporting to show the Cape Jessamine, 

 bought in 1913, represents Plnmiera rubra, the Frangipauni. Tabernaemon- 

 tana citrifolia is sometimes erroneously called Cape Jessamine. 



Gardenia nitida Hook., was introduced at Mount Langton in 1875, ac- 

 cording to Lefroy, but subsequently disappeared. 



Rondeletia odorata Jacq., SCARLET EONDELETIA, West Indian, grown in a 

 few gardens, is a shrub 3 6 high, with slender pubescent branches, very 

 short-petioled ovate to oblong leaves l'-3' long, and scarlet flowers in terminal 

 corymbs, the slender pubescent corolla-tube about \' long, the spreading limb 

 about V broad, the small capsules globose. 



Hamelia erecta Jacq., SCARLET HAMELIA, West Indian and Floridan, 

 grown for ornament, is a shrub up to 7 high, with thin, ovate to elliptic 

 pointed leaves 3'-6' long, and scarlet nearly tubular flowers about f long, in 

 terminal cymes, followed by black berries. [H. patens Jacq.] 



Vangueria edulis L., EDIBLE VANGUERIA, Madagascar,- listed by Jones 

 in 1873 and mentioned by Eeade as reported at Mt. Langton prior to 1883, is 

 a low glabrous tree with thin ovate short-petioled leaves about 5' long and 

 lateral cymes of many small greenish flowers, the corolla with reflexed lobes, 

 the edible succulent fruit about 1' in diameter, containing 5 stones. 



Pentas lanceolata (Forsk.) K. Schum., tropical African, a somewhat 

 woody herbaceous pubescent perennial about 2 high, with petioled ovate- 

 lanceolate acuminate leaves 2'-4' long, and purplish flowers in terminal 

 corymbs, the slender corolla about 14' long, its limb about one-fourth as long 

 as the tube, was cultivated in the Public Garden prior to 1883, according to 

 Eeade. [Pentas carnea Benth.] 



Palicourea domingensis (Jacq.) DC., mentioned by H. B. Small as seen 

 by him at Bishop's Lodge, many years ago, is a glabrous West Indian shrub 

 about 6 high, with thin slender-petioled elliptic acuminate leaves, and 

 corymbose white nearly tubular, curved flowers about 1' long. [P. Pavetta 

 DC.; Psycliotria domingensis Sw.] 



Mussaenda frondosa L., LEAFY MUSSAENDA, of tropical Asia, a shrub, 

 with pubescent twigs, oval to lanceolate, pubescent leaves 4 '-6' long, corymbose 

 terminal yellow flowers, one of the calyx-teeth greatly enlarged into a showy 

 ovate appendage l'-2' long, the funnelform corolla with a short 5-cleft limb, 

 is occasionally planted for ornament. 



A species of Hoffmania, introduced at Mt. Langton in 1875, is said by 

 Lefroy to have established itself where screened from high winds ; Lefroy 

 recorded it as H. splendens Benth., but there is no such published name, and I 

 am unable to tell what plant he had in mind. 



