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rowed above, tapering towards the apex and pointed, rounded at the 

 base, the lowermost small whorls ovate, sub-sessile. — Petiols about 

 oue-tliird the lenglh of their leaves, deeply furrowed, smooth above, 

 the sides margined, almost winged and with the keeled base piickiy, 

 apex contracted and jointed. — Peduncles lengthened, straight, four- 

 winged, twice or thrice trichotomous, hispid. Bractes mostly ter- 

 nate, lanceolate, sessile, hispid : the uppermost opposite, verv small. 

 — iloxcers in peduncled iascicles. Cali/x imperceptible. Corolla 

 flat, while, hairy on the outside; segments five, lanceolate, acuminate. 

 Stamina and style stv-j short. Stigma capitate.— Oi-'a/ia shghtly 

 hispid.— N. W. 



IXORA* Schreb. Gen. ^\ 16?. 

 Cah/x four-toothed. Carol one-petalled, funnel shaped. Tube 

 long, with the stamina in its mouth. Germ two-celled, one-seeded, 

 lateral. Berri/ inferior, two-seeded. Embryo erect^ curved, aiid 

 furnished with a peiisperm. 



1. I. coccinea. Linn. Sp. Fl. ed. Willd. i. 609- 



Shubbv. Leaves oblong, cordate, sessile, acute, smooth, entire. 

 Segments of the corol ovate-lanceolate, acute. Berry crowned with 

 the shut segments of the calyx. 



Schetti. Rlieed. mal. li. p. 17- t. 12. is a pretty good figure of it, 

 but the description of the colour of the flowers does not so well 

 agree. 



Jasminum flore tetrapetalo. Burm. Zeyl. 125. t. 57, good. 



In the Tanjore country and in China I have found this most beau- 

 tiful shrub in great abundance in its wild slate. In a cultivated state 

 it flowers all the year round. I have had it eight years in my garden, 

 and it is not more than three or four feet high, with many erect 

 branches, but scarcely any thing like a trunk. 



* Sir Williaru Jones observes {Asiat. Res. iv . 251), that no Indian god was ever 

 named Ixora ; he adds at tht; same time that Iswara, which" is indeed a title of Shi>-a 

 would be a very improper appellation of a plaat v.hichhas already a classical name 



