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Found in a garden at Pulo Penang. — Arborescent, with 

 grey bark. Leaves alternate, petiolate, 6-7 inches long, obo- 

 vate, (or cuneately ovate,) obtuse, veiy entire, very smooth, 

 yelloM'ish green. Petioles one inch long, flattened above, 

 thickened at the base. Sjnkes lateral, generally below the 

 leaves. Floweis geminate, on a bifid pedicel. Bracts very 

 small. Perianth 4-leaved, leaflets revolute, dilated, and 

 stamen-bearing at the summit. Stamens 4: anthers linear, 

 nearly sessile. Style filiform. Stigma clavate. Ovarium 

 1-celled, dispermous. 



Obs. In the preceding, the leaves are acuminate, and the 

 flowers in pairs, each with its proper pedicel ; in this, the 

 leaves are rounded and obtuse at the apex, and the flowers 

 are geminate on a common pedicel. 



IXORA PENDULA. W.J. 



Nat. Ord. Rubiace^. 



Foliis elliptico-lanceolatis glaberrimis, corymbis longe pe- 

 dunculatis pendulis. 



Bunga yarum. Malay. — Native of Pulo Penang, &c. — A 

 shrub, with smooth, compressed branches. Leaves opposite, 

 shortly petioled, 11-12 inches long, elliptically lanceolate, 

 rather obtuse, very entire, very smooth, shining above. Pe- 

 tioles little more than half an inch long. Stipules interpetio- 

 lar, broad at the base, ending in a subulate point. Corymbs 

 terminal, long-ped uncled, hanging, trichotomous, many- 

 flowered. Flowers red. Bracts 2, small, at the base of the 

 calyx. Calyx small, 4-partite, slightly tomentose. Corolla 

 red: tube long and slender: /m6 4- parted, lobes ovate, lan- 

 ceolate, rather acute. Stamens spreading. Style filiform. 

 Stigma clavate.' 



This is a beautiful species, at once distinguishable by its 

 long pendulous corymbs. Bunga yarum is the generic Malay 

 name of the Ixorce. 



