Ixora. TETRANDRIA MONOGYNIA. 375 



entire, acute, pointed, generally five or seven-nerved, though 

 in the largest there are sometimes nine, and in the smallest 

 three, or even sometimes obliterated ; these nerves are armed 

 with small recurved prickles, like those on the angles of the 

 branchlets ; both sides channelled. Panicles terminal, oblong, 

 composed of numerous, opposite, small, sub-globular, tricho- 

 tomous panicles from the axill of the floral leaves. Peduncles 

 and pedicels four-sided, smooth. Bractes opposite, sessile, 

 long, cordate. Flowers numerous, minute. Calyx, if any, 

 so minute as not to be visible. Corol flat, five-parted ; divi- 

 sions lanceolate, acute, with points inflected. Stamens five, 

 shorter than the corol. Germ beneath, twin. Style scarce- 

 ly any, stigma large, two-cleft. Berries two, or one; the 

 second not always coming to maturity, globular, size of a 

 small grain of pepper, smooth. Seed single, round, smooth, 

 with a deep pit on one side. 



Obs. It differs from R. cordifolia in being pentandrous. 

 The roots, stems, and larger branches are used to dye red 

 with. 



IXORA* Schreb. gen. N. 167- 

 Calyx four-toothed. Corol one-petalled, funnel-shaped. 

 Tube long, with the stamina in its mouth. Germ two-celled, 

 one-seeded, lateral. Berry inferior, two-seeded. Embryo 

 erect, curved, and furnished with a perisperm. 



1. 1. coccinea. Linn, sp.pl. ed. Willd. i. 609. 



Shrubby. Leaves oblong, cordate, sessile, acute, smooth, 

 entire. Segments of the corol ovate-lanceolate, acute. Berry 

 crowned with the shut segments of the calyx. 



Schetti. Rheed. Mai. ii. p. 17. 1. 1&. is a pretty good figure 



* Sir William Jones observes ( Asiat. Res. iv. 251 J, that no 

 Indian god was ever named Ixora ; he adds at the same time that 

 Iswara, which is indeed a title of Shiva, would be a very impro- 

 per appellation of a plant which has already a classical name. 



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