Plates 449, 450. 

 IXORA AMABILIS. 



There are few more showy plants, or plants that more easily 

 fulfil the conditions of good exhibition plants, than the Ixoras, 

 and amongst the very best must be classed that which we now 

 figure. 



As stone plants, they necessarily require good cultivation, 

 and coming from some of the hottest regions of the ti'opics, 

 they require a very high temperature, not less than 70° by day, 

 and 05° by night, combined, during the growing season, with 

 considerable moisture ; they also require to be carefully guarded 

 from the attack of thrips. The soil in which they succeed 

 best is good strong peat with a little loam and silver sand, and 

 when striking, the growth requires shade, a moist atmosphere, 

 and abundance of water. 



Ixora amabilis has a vigorous and compact habit, with fine 

 foliage, and flowers of a deep orange colour, of good form ; the 

 trusses are very large, measuring sometimes nine inches in 

 diameter ; it is very free flowering, young plants in small pots 

 giving two or three large trusses of bloom ; as it produces flowers 

 for several months in season it will be very useful for exhibition 

 purposes. As a proof of its value, it has received first-class 

 certificates at the Eoyal Horticultural and Royal Botanic 

 Society's Exhibitions, when exhibited by Mr. Eobert Parker of 

 Tooting, who is now sending it out. 



