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4. I. slricta. R. 



Shrubby, straight. Leaves sub-sessile, oblong. Corymbs 

 dense, compound, hemispheric. Lacinice of the corol round, 

 spreading. Anthers bristle-pointed. 



Ixora coccinea. Lourier, Cochin Ch. 95. Cartis's Botanical 

 Magazine, No. 169. 



Flammasyl varum peregrina. Rumph. Amb. iv. 107. t. 47. 



This beautiful plant was brought to the Botanic garden 

 from the Moluccas in 1798, where it is in constant blossom 

 the whole year round ; but rarely ripens its fruits. The plant, 

 when in flower is highly ornamental, though by no means so 

 gaudy as I. coccinea and Bandhuca, which are certainly two 

 of our most showy Indian shrubs. 



Trunk scarcely any, but a few perfectly straight branches, 

 covered with dark-brown smooth bark ; height from three to 

 four feet. Leaves opposite, sub-sessile, oblong, entire, smooth 

 on both sides. Stipules interfoliaceous, long, taper, acute- 

 pointed. Corymbs terminal, very dense, sub hemispheric, 

 primary divisions brachiate, and short, extreme divisions 

 trichotomous ; all smooth and of a bright, deep red colour. 

 Flowers numerous, colour at first a lively orange approach- 

 ing to scarlet, becoming deeper and deeper from the time of 

 expansion. Calyx bright red, fleshy ; divisions short and ob- 

 tuse. Corol, tube, cylindric. Border of four round, spreading 

 segments. Filaments without the tube, short, spreading, flat, 

 with their linear acute anthers over the divisions of the border 

 of the corol. Stigma two-cleft, elevated a little above the 

 mouth of the tube. Berry spherical, smooth, succulent, red, 

 two-celled, with a single rugose seed in each. 



06s. In the Botanic sarden at Calcutta there is a more ra- 

 mous variety of this charming plant introduced from China, 

 where it is called Hong-mo u-tang, with pale pink flowers 

 which it bears in abundance all the year. 



5. I. alba. Linn. sp. pi. ed. i. 906. 



Leaves sessile, broad-lanceolar. Corymbs decompound, 



