Ixora. TETRANDRTA MONOGYNIA. 381 



rymb and under the calyx subulate. Flowers very numerous, 

 pure white, fragrant. Calyx four-cleft to the base, divisions 

 long-, narrow and acute. Tube of the corol cylindric, very 

 slender, three quarters of an inch long; the four segments of 

 the border oblongf and obtuse. Filaments from the inner 

 edges of the fissures of the border of the corol. Anthers nar- 

 row, sagittate. Germ oval, two-celled, with one seed in each, 

 attached to the middle of the partition. Stigma of two linear 

 lobes, elevated considerably above the mouth of the tube. 

 Berry round, turbinate, size of a small cherry, when ripe 

 bright red, and smooth, two-celled. Seed solitary, round, oval, 

 convex on the outside, with a large deep pit on the inner. 

 Integuments two; exterior nuciform; inner membranaceous, 

 and greenish. Perisperm conform to the seed. Embryo erect, 

 curved like the convex seed. Cotyledons reniform. Radicle 

 cylindric, length of the cotyledons, inferior. 



Obs. Vahl's figure of I. parviflora, Symbol. Bot. iii. t. 52, 

 is much like this plant ; his description however agrees bet- 

 ter with what I have always considered to be his parviflora, 

 and which is so labelled in Sir Joseph Banks's herbarium. 

 They differ in the following respects. That (I. parviflora) is 

 a tree, this a shrub ; in that the leaves are linear oblong with 

 a cordate base, of a much firmer texture, and more polished ; 

 in this they taper for two-thirds of their length to the base, 

 (hence the specific name cuneifblia.) In that the segments 

 of the calyx are short and obtuse, in this long and acute. In 

 that the berries are round and black; in this short, turbinate 

 and red. The corymbs also differ somewhat. In both species 

 the flowers are white, but in this much larger. 



7. I. brachiata. R. 



Shrubby. Leaves short-petioled, lanceolar. Panicles bra- 

 chiate, with remote, diverging branches. 



A stout shrub, a native of the forests of Bengal. In the 

 Botanic garden it flowers in March, and the seeds ripen in 

 May. 



