76 Flora of the Malayan Penmsula. 



Ill, 145. I. grandiflora, Br. in Bot. Reg. t. 154; DC. Prod. IV, 486. 



Wight in Hook. Bot. Misc. III. Suppl. t. 35. I prnpinqun, Br. in Wall. 



Cat. 6119. I. incarnata, DC. Prod. I.e. 1. obovata, Heyne in Roth 



Nov. Spec. 90. I. Bandhuca, Roxb. Hort. Beng. 10 ; Fl. Tnd. I. 376 ; 



Wall. Cat. 6120 ; DC. Prod. I.e. ; Wight le. 149. Tavetta coccinea and 



P. incarnata, Blume Bijdr. 950. P. Bandhuca, Miq. Fl. Ind. Bat. II, 



266. 



In most of the provinces ; cultivated on account of its brilliant 



scarlet flowers. 



7. IxoRA CONGESTA, Roxb. Fl. Ind. I 387. A shrub, glabrous ex- 

 cept the smaller branches of the cymes ; young branches half as thick as 

 a goose-quill, dark-coloured. Leaves thinly coriaceous, elliptic to oblong? 

 elliptic, sub-acute or shortly and bluntly acuminate, the base rounded 

 or cuneate ; both surfaces brown when dry and rather dull, the lower 

 paler; main-nerves 12 to 20 pairs, spreading and interarching at the 

 tips, depi'essed on the upper and prominent on the lower surface ; lenj/th 

 6 to 9 in. ; breadth 2'25 to 4 in. ; petioles "3 to "5 in. ; stipules '15 in 

 long, broad, shortly cuspidate. Cyme terminal, corymbiform, trichoto- 

 mous on a short peduncle, 2'5 to 4 in. long (including the peduncle) 

 and rather more in diam., condensed, the branches many-flowered. 

 Calyx sessile or on a short pedicel, less than "1 in. long, with 4 triangular 

 acute teeth shorter than the tube. Corolla-tube 1 25 to 1"5 in. long, 

 narrowly cylindiic; its limb '5 or '6 in. across, its 4 lobes spreading or 

 refiexed, ovate-lanceolate, blunt or sub-acute, '25 to "3 in. long; stigma 

 slender, slightly exserted. Fruit compressed, fusiform, with 2 vertical 

 grooves, glabrous. DC. Prod. IV, 486 ; Wall. Cat. 6138. Hook. fil. Fl. 

 Br. Ind. Ill, 146. I. Gh-iffithi, Hook. Bot. Mag. t. 4325. I. fulgens, 

 Wall. Cat. 6512 B. Pavetta congesta, Miq. Fl. Ind. Bat. II, 269. 



Singapore: Lobb ; Anderso7i 92 ; Ridley 6674, 6911. Johore: King, 

 Ridley 4168. Malacca: Griffith (K.D.) 2984; Maingay (K.D.) 848; 

 848-2; EirfZei/ 5675, 6911; Berry 8; Good enough 1967. Penang : Wallich; 

 King; Curtis 1729, 17S0, 2265, 2975. Perak : Scortechim ; King's Col- 

 lector 675, 2448 2865, 2867, 3982, 3998; Wray. Distrib :— Malayan 

 Archipelago, Burma. 



Allied to I. Lohhii, Load, but with more coriaceous broader leaves, with more 

 nerves, shorter flowers in more condensed cymes. The corolla is orange or red. 



8. Ixora dndulata, Roxb. Hort. Beng. 10: Fl. Ind. I, 385. A 

 glabrous shrub or small tree, the cymes often pubescent ; young branch- 

 es thinner than a goose-quill, pale-brown, shining. Leaves coriaceous, 

 oblong-elliptic, sub-acute, the base much narrowed ; both surfaces oliva- 

 ceous-brown when dry, rather dull ; main-nerves about 12 pairs, thin 



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