Ixord^ TSTRANDRIA MONOGYNIA. J|S9 



with dark-brown smooth bark ; height from three to four feet. 

 — Leaves opposite, sub-sessile, oblong, entire, smooth on both sides* 

 • — Stipules interfoliaceous, long, taper, acute-pointed- — Con/mbs 

 terminal, very dense, sub-hemis[iheiic, piimaiy divisions bradiiate, 

 and short, extreme divisions trichutoaious; all smooih and of a bright, 

 deep red colour. — Flowers numerous, colour at first a lively orange 

 approaching to scarlet, becoming deeper and deeper from the time of 



e\pansion. — Calyx bright red, fleshy; divisions short and obtuse 



Carol, lube cylindric. Border of four round spreading segments. — • 

 Filaments without the tube, short, spreading, flat, with their linear 

 acute anthers over the divisions of the border of the corol,— St ig/na 

 two-cleft, elevated a little above the moutli of ihe tube. Berry 

 spherical, smooth, succulent, red, two-celled, with a single rugose 

 seed in each 



Obs. In the Botanic Garden at Calcutta there is a more ramous 

 variety of this charming plant introduced from China where it is cal- 

 led Hong-mou-tang, with pale pink flowers which it bears iu abun- 

 dance all the year.* 



5. I. alba. Linn. Sp. PL ed. WiUd. i. gOG.f 



Leaves sessile, broad lanceolar. Corymbs decompound, dense, 

 sub-hemispheric; lacinitz of the corol obovate and reflexed. 



Until I came to Bengal I had not an opportunity of seeing this 

 elegant plant. I have found it only in gardens. Flowering time the 

 hot and rainy seasons. The shrub itself is much like hora coccinea. 



Ramous, erect, and smooth in every part. Leaves opposite, ses- 

 sile, broad-lanceolar, smooth, a little waved, from three to six inches 

 long. — Stipules within the leaves. — Corymbs terminal, compound, 

 or decompound, dense, often hemispheric; divisions or sub-divisions 

 by threes. — Flozcers very numerous, inodorous, white, with a straight, 

 rather longer and more slender lube than in Ixora coccinea ; divisions 

 of the border reflexed, obovate. 



0^5. This is probably nothing more than a variety of I. stricla, 



• I. incarnata, Rn.vb. Mss: accordin;' to Sir J. E. Smith.l.cit.— N» ^V« 

 t This sporics is widely ditfereat fiam L alba, Linu.— N. '^V, 



