Ixora, TETRAHDBIA MONOGYNIA. 3S7 



15. tenuiflora. R. 



Leaves short-petioled, oblonsr, obtuse, smooth. Panicles ter- 

 minal, corymbgfann, contracted. Segments of the calyx cor- 

 date, and obtuse, tube of the corol long, and most slender. 

 Segments of its border oblong, obtuse, and longer than the 

 erect style, or stamina. 



A native of the 31 •' s, id with flowers infinitely more 

 delicate than I. fulgent which it most resembles. 



16. I. eomgesta. R. 



Shrubby. Leave* -hort-petioled, oblong, strongly veined. 

 Corymbs termin d, short, dense. Flowers sub-sessile. Seg- 

 ments of the calyx obscurely reniform; those of the border 

 of the corol oblong, and obtua . 



A native of the Moluccas, and differs from l.fulgens in the 

 firm somewhat coriaceous leaves, with stronger parallel reins. 



17. I. lanceejlaria. Colebr. 



Shrubby, smooth; branches -lender, pendulous, sub-di- 

 chotomous. Leaves in approximate pair>, very long, linear- 

 lanceolate, acuminate, short-petioled. Corymb terminal, sub- 

 sessile, snail, with coloured scaly, crowded p edu n c les. Tube 

 of the corol filiform; lacinice linear-oblong. Anthers linear, 

 with deeply bifid base. 



A n itive of Travancore. Introduced into the Botanic gar- 

 den by Dr. A. Berry in 1803. Time of blossoming the hot 

 season : the fruit ripens toward- the close of the rain-. 



An erect shrub, rive. -ix. <>r even more feet high, with di- 

 chotomou-. very little spreading', ash-coloured branches. 

 Branchlels very >knder and twiggy, hanging, green, with 

 numerous compressed widened joints, like all the other parts 

 of the plant smooth. Leeives spreading, from five to seven 

 inches long and almost as many times exceeding their iu- 

 ter-tiees an inch or les- broad a little above their acute base, 

 from thence tapering into a sharp acumen, opaque and some- 

 what glaucous above, pale beneath, with a slender white rib 



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