608 LXX. KUJ3IACE.I;. 



acumination about i-i in. long. Flowers greenish-white, in peduncled 

 cymes from the old scars below the leaves ; peduncles usually short ; 

 ])edicels slender ; buds acute, somewhat mitre-shaped. Calyx yL in. long, 

 glabrous ; tube cup-shaped, ribbed, rugose ; teeth 5, somewhat scarions, 

 3^ in. long, distant, triangular, very acute. Corolla 5 in. long ; tube 

 very broad, glabrous outside, the throat densely hairy within ; lobes 5, 

 ovate-lanceolate, acute, equalling the tube. Fruit about 1 in. in diam., 

 on slender pedicels, globose, smooth, yellowish when ripe, edible ; 

 pyrenes 4-5, woody, smooth. Fl. B. I. v. 3, p. 136; Grab. Cat. p. 90 ; 

 Talb. Trees, Bomb. ed. 2, p. 192; Woodr. in Journ. Bomb. Nat. v. 11 

 (1898) p. 645 ; Watt, Diet. Econ. Prod. v. 6, part 4, p. 221.— Flowers : 

 Jan.-Apr. Veun. A'lu. 



EoNKAN : Thai Gh'd, Kanifiarl; Matheran, CooAcl, KanitJcar\ Deccan: Lanoli, 

 Woodrowl S. M. Country: near Belgauni; Eifchle, 1786/3; Kanaua : common, 

 Eitchie, 1786 ! — Distrib. India (N. Bengal, W. Peninsula, Birma, Pegu) ; Java. 



22. IXORA, Linn. 



Shrubs or small trees usually glabrous. Leaves opposite (rarely 

 3-nately verticelled) ,: stipules interpetiolar. Flowers usually 4-raerous, 

 in terminal 3-chotomously branched often corymbose cymes, 2-bracteolate. 

 Calyx-tube ovoid ; limb short, 4 (rarely .5) -toothed, persistent. Corolla- 

 tube long, very slender ; lobes 4 (rarely 5), usually shorter than the tube, 

 spreading, twisted in bud. Stamens 4 (rarely 5), on the mouth of the 

 corolla ; filaments short or ; anthers slender, often with an apiculate 

 tip. Ovary 2-celled ; ovules solitary in each cell, peltately attached to 

 the septum ; style filiform ; stigma slender, fusiform, 2-branched, the 

 branches rarely persistently connate. Fruit globose or subdidymous, 

 with 2 plano-convex or ventrally concave coriaceous pyrenes. Seeds 

 peltate ; testa membranous ; albumen horny ; cotyledons flat, thin ; 

 radicle inferior. — Distmb. Tropical Asia and Africa, America, Australia, 

 and the Pacific Islands. 



Calyx-teeth longer than the ovary. 



Calyx 5 in. long; corolla-tube reaching | in 1. /. latweolaria. 



Calyx ^ in. long ; corolla-tube reaching 1 3 in 2. I. polyantha. 



Calyx-teeth shorter than the ovary. 



Leaves and inflorescence turning black in drying 3. I. nigricans. 



Leaves and inflorescence not turning black in drying. 



Peduncles 4-7 in. long 4. /. elongata. 



Peduncles less than 3 in. long. 

 Flowers white. 

 Small trees. 



Corolla-tube less than ^ in. long; flower-buds globose. 6. I. brachiafa. 

 Corolla-tube exceeding ^ in. long; flower-buds 



ellipsoid 6. I. parviflora. 



Flowers bright-scarlet. 



A shrub ; corolla-tube 1^ in. long 7. I. coccinca. 



1. Ixora lanceolaria, Colehr. in Roxh. Fl. Ind. ed. Carey, v. 1 

 (1820) p. 397. A small erect shrub ; branches ash-colored. Leaves 

 4-5| by 1-2 in., oblong-lanceolate, acute, glabrous, attenuate (rarely 

 rounded) at the base; main nerves slender, 14-18 pairs; petioles g-| in. 

 long ; stipules shortly triangular at the base, with a long slender point 

 whicli is sometimes \ in. long. Flowers numerous, in brachiate cymes 

 2-3 in. in diam., supported by a pair of floral leaves ; bracts beneath 

 the branches of the cyme lanceolate-subulate, caducous; bracteoles 2, 



