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VAR. angustifoUa, King & Gamble ; leaves narrowly ohlong-lanceo- 

 late about 1 in. in width. 



Singapore: King. Perak -. Wray 519; Scortechini 1893: King's 

 Collector 2718. Pahang : Ridley 22i 5. 



This variety comes near to Pavetta salicifolia, Blame, but its leaves have more 

 nnmerons main-nerves, and its corolla lobes are ranch shorter. 



12. IxoRA FULGENS, Roxb. Hort. Beng. 10: Fl. Ind. 1.378. A 

 shrub, all parts glabrous: young branches thicker than a crow-quill, 

 dark, shining. Leaves coriaceous, oblong-lanceolate or oblauceolate, 

 shortly acuminate, the base cuneate ; both surfaces shining when dry, 

 the upper dark-brown, the lower paler ; main-nerves 10 to 12 pairs, 

 curved, spreading, interarching, slender; length 3"5 to 5*5 in., breadth 

 1"25 to J-5 ; petiole '2 to S in.; stipules "2 in. long, triangular, the base 

 broad, with a long linear point. Oymes terminal, corymbose, rather lax, 

 spreading, 'S to "5 in. in diam., many-flowered ; biacteoles triangular, 

 minute. Calyx less than '1 in. long, cylindric-campanulafce, with 4 

 shallow broad teeth. Corolla-tube 1*25 to 1'5 in. long, narrowly cylin- 

 dric; its limb '8 in. across; the 4 lobes broadly ovate or lanceolate, 

 acute, spreading. Anthers narrow, on short filaments. FnUt fusiform, 

 somewhat 2-lobed, smooth, purple when ripe. DC. Prod. IV, 486 : 

 Wight Icon. 451 : Wall. Cat. 6152; Hook. fil. Fl. Br. Ind. III. 146, not 

 of Roxb, 



Singapore: Lohh 102. Perak : Scortechini; Wray 3021; Kings 

 Collector 2949, 5075, 5522. 



This species is not common. It has been confased with the much more common 

 I. Zohhii, Loud, from which it differs in having about half as many leaf-nerves. It 

 is to I. Lohhii that the description of I. fulgens given in the Flora of British India 

 really refers. 



13, Ixora HUMiLis, King & Gamble, n. sp. A small unbranched 

 glabrous shrub little more than a foot high. Leaves large, coriaceous, 

 sessile, elliptic to sub-pauduriform, the apex sub-acute, narrowed below 

 the middle to the broadly cordate auriculate base; both surfaces brown 

 when dry, the lower paler and with the reticulations distinct ; main- 

 nerves 15 to 18 pairs, carved, slender but distinct, spreading and only 

 slightly curved : length 9 to 12 in.; breadth 35 to 4 in. ; stipules of 

 opposite sides united into a short tube with a cusp on each side. Cyme 

 terminal, 25 to 3 in. long (including the short peduncle), and as much 

 across ; branches few and short, bracteoles minute. Calyx under '1 in. 

 long, its lobes shorter than the tube, blunt. Corolla-tube about 1'5 in. 

 long, narrowly cylindric ; the limb about 7 in. across ; its 4 lobes sub- 

 rotund, spreading. Anthers linear, apiculate, on short filamenis inserted 

 in the throat. Fruit unknown. 



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