on the Hortiis Malabaricus, Fart II. I9I 



four species of Asiatic Ixora with red flowers. For the first, 

 which he calls I. coccinea, he quotes first the Schetli, stating that 

 the figure is pretty good, but that the description does not well 

 agree ; and secondly he quotes the Jasminuni fiore tetrapetalo of 

 Burman, the figure of which is good. This is to say that Dr. 

 Roxburgh's /. coccinea is that of Burman, but probably not the 

 plant of Rheede. In this I entirely agree with my late friend. 

 I have never seen this species except in the botanical garden at 

 Calcutta ; but the second species with a red flower, which Dr. 

 Roxburgh called I. Bandhuca (FL Ind. i. 386.), is common 

 every where almost that I have been in India, and seems to me 

 to approach the nearest to the Schetti, although in the figure the 

 divisions of the corolla are represented much too acute. 



The other two species of Ixora with red flowers described in 

 the Flora Indica are the Flamma sylvarum, and Flamma sylvarum 

 peregrina, which Dr. Roxburgh called Ixora fiilgens and I. stric- 

 ta ; but these names cannot be received, as the plants were pre- 

 viously named by the most respectable botanists. These four 

 species however were all included among the synonyma quoted 

 by Linnaeus, or in authors referred to by him, for the Ixora coc- 

 cinea, and it is by no means clear that the Schetti is any one of 

 the four. If we thus admit five species, we shall have one for each 

 of the five denominations, under which Hermann is supposed 

 by Burman to have mentioned the Ixora coccinea, besides the 

 African tree of Plukenet. 



Bem Schetti, p. 19- Jig- 14. 

 This plant is involved in almost as great difficulty as the pre- 

 ceding. Commeline in 1679 was unable to refer it to any pre- 

 ceding author ; but in I696 Plukenet called it Jasminum indi- 

 cum Lauri folio inodorum umhellatum jioribus albicantibus [Aim. 

 196. Fhyt. t. 109. f- 2.), and found that it had been mentioned 



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