194 RUBIACE.E. 



bristles often wanting. Flowering corymbs compact, I 



inch ; in fruit open 2 to 4 inches. Fruit ellipsoid or 



globular, ^ inch. 



Nilgiris : on the plateau below Ootacamund. Pulneys : at 

 lower levels. Fyson 472, 12 19, 1910. Bourne 983, 2990. 



Gen, Dist. South Indian hills. 



IXORA. F.B.I. 75 LXVI. 



Shrubs or small trees characterised chiefly by the 

 very slender corolla tubes ; petals twisted, anthers 

 nearly sessile on the corolla mouth, style slender, stigma 

 slender, fruit of two pyrenes each with one peltate seed. 



Species about 100, in the tropics of Asia and Africa. One 

 species /. coccinea is very common in gardens on the plains 

 of South India. 



Ixora notoniana Wallich ; F.BJ. iii 139, LXVI 5. A 

 small shola tree distinguished among all our trees by 

 the very slender corolla tubes, J^ by 1/20 inch. The 

 flowers are in hemispherical clusters masses into broadly 

 rounded panicles, 6 inches across, pink and fragrant. 



A small shola tree ; branches roughened by the scars 

 of the fallen leaves and stipules ; bark light coloured. 

 Stipules forming a complete sheath round the axis for % 

 inch above each pair of leaves with Ye inch subulate 

 points. Leaf-stalks stout ^ inch ; blade 4 to 6 by 2 

 to 2y2 inches, entire, abruptly and shortly acuminate 

 (cuspidate), narrowed at the base, firm, quite glabrous 

 and shiny dark green above ; midrib stout, veins ten to 

 fifteen pairs, curving forwards near the margin and con- 

 nected by a coarse network of much more slender ones. 

 Panicles terminal ; branches opposite or in threes, well 

 separated, often like the main axis, pink ; the branches 

 again branched near their ends, forming very regular 

 hemispherical cymes l^ inches wide; the whole panicle 

 4 to 6 inches wide. Calyx-tube 1/30 inch, longer than 



