3S0 TETRANDRIA MONOGYN1A. IxOIU. 



dense, sub-hemispheric; lacinice of the corol obovate and re- 

 flexed. 



Until I came to Bengal 1 had not an opportunity of seeing 

 this elegant plant. I have found it only in gardens. Flower- 

 ing time the hot and rainy seasons. The shrub itself is much 

 like Ixora coccinea. 



Ramous, erect, and smooth in every part. Leaves oppo- 

 site, sessile, broad-lanceolar,. smooth, a little waved, from three 

 to six inches long. Stipules within the leaves. Corymbs 

 terminal, compound, or decompound, dense, often hemi- 

 spheric ; divisions or sub-divisions by threes. Flowers every 

 numerous, inodorous, white, with a straight, rather longer 

 and more slender tube than in Ixora coccinea ; divisions the 

 border reflexed, obovate. 



Obs. This is probably nothing more than a variety of I. 

 stricta, or that of this. It was originally brought from China, 

 where it is called Ta-mou-tang. 



0. I. cuneijolia. R. 



Shrubby. Leaves broad-cuneate, lanceolate, pointed. Co- 

 rymbs terminal, long-peduncled. Floicers crowded ; seg- 

 ments of the calyx oblong, conic. 



A native of the country about Dacca, from thence the late 

 Colonel Peter Murray sent seeds to the Botanic i garden, 

 where the plants grow freely, blossom in March, and ripen 

 their seed in August and September. 



Trunk "short. Branches opposite, nearly erect, round and 

 covered with smooth brown bark ; young shoots smooth, and 

 green. Leaves opposite, short-pet ioled, broad, cuueate, lan- 

 ceolate, recurved, entire, taper, obtuse-pointed, firm and po- 

 lished, somewhat bullate ; length from four to six inches, by 

 one and a half or two broad. Stipules tapering, subulate, 

 pointed. Corymbs terminal, long-peduncled, trichotomous, 

 alternate divisions ending in fascicles of sub-sessile, crowded, 

 pure white flowers, with a slight tinge of pink on the outside. 

 Jiractes in opposite pairs, at the various divisions of the co- 



