376 TETRANORIA MON0GYN1A. Ixom. 



of it, but the description of the colour of the flowers does not 

 so well agree. 



Jasminuni (lore tetrapetalo. Bnrm. Zeyl. 125. /. 57, good. 



In the Tanjore country and in China I have found this 

 most beautiful .shrub in great abundance in its wild state. 

 In a cultivated state it flowers all the year round. I have 

 had it eight years in my garden, and it is not more than three 

 or four feet high, with many erect branches, but scarcely 

 any thing like a trunk. 



Leaves opposite, sessile, approximated, decussate, oblong-, 

 pointed, entire, smooth, shining, from three to four inches 

 long, and one and a half broad. Stipules within the leaves 

 with an awled process on each side. Corymb terminal, 

 three-forked. Bracles small, rigid. Peduncles and pedicels 

 short, coloured. Flowers numerous, pretty large, bright 

 scarlet, inodorous. Calyx four-toothed ; divisions acute. 

 Corol, stamens and pistil as in the genus. Berry size of a 

 small cherry, red, juicy, two-celled. Seed solitary, convex 

 on one side, and flat on the other. 



Obs. Flamma sylvarum. Rumph. Amb. iv. p. 105. t. 46. 

 is a very bad representation of this species, and much more 

 like my Ixorafulgens. I have therefore doubtfully quoted 

 it for that plant. 



x 



2. I. Bandhuca. R. 



Shrubby, spreading. Leaves oval, stem-clasping. Corymbs 

 crowded. Segments of the corol ovate, obtuse. Berries 

 crowned with the open calyx. 



Asiat. Res. iv. p. 250. 



Sans. Rukluka, Bwndhooko, or Bwndhooka, Bwndhoojee- 

 \uka. 



Beng. Rttngwn, R?/j«na. 



A very elegant, uncommonly ramous, bushy shrub, a 

 native of Hindoostan. Sir William Jones observes that the 

 flower is often mentioned by the best Indian Poets. It is in 



