394 TETRANDIIIA MONOGYNlA. Ixora. . 



Arboreous. Leaves sub-sessile, oblong, smooth. Panicles ovate 

 oblong, decussated. Lacinits of the coro\ o\-3.\. S(y/e Lairy. Ber- 

 ries round. 



JBen^. Gu\vlhu\-nix\gun, 



Teling. Tadda-puliu. 



Amooff the mountains of the Coast of Coromandel this species 

 grows to be a pretty large tree ; in the low lands it is much smaller, 

 seldom exceeding fifteen or twenty feet in height. Floweiing tnue 

 February and !March. 



Bark dark-coloured, scabrous. — Leaves opposite, short-petioled, 

 linear-oblong, pointed at the base, often cordate ; smooth, shining, 

 firm, entire, from three to four inches long, and from one and a half 

 to two broad. — Stipules as in I. coccinea. — Panicles ovale, termi- 

 nal, erect, cross-armed ; divisions always three-forked.— l)7af^es at 

 the principal divisions stipulaceous, with four subulate processes; 

 the rest are small, one below each ramitication. — Flowers small, 

 Avhite, fragrant. The st)le is hairy.' — Berri/ generally two-seeded, 

 somewhat two-lobed, size of a pea, black. 



n. I. harhata. It* 



'J'ube of the corol long; mouth bearded, igflfes opposite, short- 

 petioled, oblong, entire, smooth, shining ; Jloral leaves round, cor- 

 date, sessile. Panicles open. 



This elegant, densely ramous, large shrub, or small tree, I have 

 found only in the Botanic Garden. Flowering lime the hot season. 



Trunk scarcely any, branches numerous, opposite.— JLeaws oppo- 

 site, short-petioled, oblong, entire, smooth, and shining on both 

 sides, from six to nine inches long. — Stipules wiihin the leaves as iu 

 the other species. — Corymbs, or rather panicles terminal, decom- 

 pound, large, diffuse, always trichotomous, smooth in eve.-y part. — 

 Bractes, the lowermost pair embracing the base of the common 

 peduncle, large, and cordate, (they may be called floral leaves ;) the 



* This plant must not be confounded with Pavetta barbata of Sir J. E. Suiith ia 

 Rees's Cyclopaedia, in loco — N. W. 



