2SS TETRANDRIA itCVOGYJJfA. txorO, 



Trunk short, soon dividing into many straggling weak brandies, 

 covered with smooth dark-brown bark. Leaves opposite, shoit- 

 petioied, lanceolate, entire, acute, smooth on both sides ; from six 

 to eight inches long, and from one to three broad. !Stipule$ con- 

 necting, with an acute point on each side. Coryvihs terminal, com- 

 posed of short, decussate, highly coloured branches, and hianchlets, 

 supporting numerous, short-peduncled, long-tubed, pretty large, 

 scarlet tiowers, with the four segments of their border acute, and 

 broad-lanceolate, stamens erect. Berry tvvo-lobed, size of a mar- 

 rowfat pea, smooth, when ripe of a deep purple, two-celled. Seeds 

 solitary, nearly round, convex ou the back, widi a deep cavity on the 

 inside, and from thence attached by a thick short cord to the centre 

 of the partition. Integuments two, the exterior corresponding with 

 what G^ertner calls the arillus in Caffea, ash-coloured, and firm like 

 parchment; the inner membranaceous, and darker coloured. — Pg- 

 risperm conform to the seed, pale blue, and of a soft cartilaginous 

 consistence. Emhri/o erect, one-third shorter than the perisperm, 

 curved. Cotyledons two, cordate. Radicle sub-clavate, inferior. 



4. I. strictu. J2.* 



Shrubljy, straight. Leaves sub-sessile, oblong. Corymbs dense, 

 compound, hemispheric. Lacinim of the corol romid, spreading. 

 Anthers bristle-pointed. 



Ixora coccinea. Loiireir, Cuchinch. Qo. Curiii's Botanical Maga- 

 zine, No. 169. 



f lamma syl varum peregrina. Rumph. ai/ib. iv, 107- ^ 47. 

 . This beautiful plant was brought to the Botanic Garden from the 

 Moluccas in 1798, where it is in constant blossom the whole year 

 round; but rarely ripens its fruits. The plant, when in flower is 

 highly ornamental, though by no means so gaudy as I. coccinea and 

 Bandliuca, which are certainly two of our most showy Indian shrubs. 



Trunk scarcely any, but a few perfectly straight branches, covered 



* l.Jlammea, Salts. Hort. 62, according to Sir J. h. Smitb, I cit. 1. cAinenew, Laaa. 

 l.cit.344.-N.W. 



