13. Eandia.] 77. RVBIAGEJE. 



branchlets, sometmies also axillary. Berry black 2o--^" diam. with 

 10-12 angled seeds. 



Northern Puriieah ! Ravines in Singbhiim, ratlier rare ! Fl., Fr. Dec. -May. 



Twigs pubescent. Leaves thinly hairy on and in the axils of the nerves beneath, 

 base obtuse or acute, sec. n. 3-5. Petiole •1--25", stipules deciduous broad and short 

 with a long linear cusp. Cymes on peduncles •2-"3" long or sessile between a pair 

 of leaves. Fls. subi^essile. Calyx-tube above the ovar^y nearly "l", sepals "2" linear 

 with broad base and sometimes slightly dilated at tip, thinly hairy. Corolla-tube 

 •5-l'25'' in some specimens, petals bioadly oblong, sometimes apiculate, base hairy.. 

 Stigma large mitriform, shortly exserted". Berry marked with a prominent areole. 



14. IXORA, L. 



Small trees or shrubs with opp. or ternate leaves and flowers in 

 terminal 8-chotomous often corymbose cymes, 4- very rarely 5- 

 meroiis. Hypanthium small. Calyx with small 4-toothed persistent 

 limb. Corolla-tube very long- and slender Avith 4 spreading lobes. 

 Stamens on the mouth Avith visually very short or obsolete filaments 

 and slender exserted linear anthers Avith 2-fid base. Ovary 2-celled,. 

 style filiform exserted but never tAvice as long" as corolla-tube, stigma 

 slender at first fusiform, after Avards usually dividing- into twa 

 branches. Ovules 1 in each cell peltately attached to the septum. 

 Fruit Avith two plano-convex or A'entrally concave coriaceous pyrenes. 

 Seeds peltate. Cotyledons flat thin, radicle inferior. 



Wild Species : 

 LeaA'es acuminate. LoAver c.yme-branches 2" long or more. Cor. — 



tube OA'er -26" . . 1. undidafa. 



Leaves subsessile, rounded. Cyme branches usually under 2" 



long 2. jmrviflora^ 



Garden Species : 



A large number of garden species oF Ixora are in cultivation in gardens. The 

 two mo;.t couimon, and also most beautiful, are — 



3. L coccinea, L. A compact shrub with shining oblong sessile leaves 3-4" long 

 and bright scarlet flowers in large handsome compact corymbs. The petals are 

 acute. Peduncles and pedicels coloured like Die flowers. 



4. I. striata. Moxh. Less compact in habit with sub-sessile, oval or oblong, leaA'es 

 5-6" long and large compact convex corymbs of flowers of a salmon-scarlet colouiv 

 The petals are rounded. 



1. I. undulata, Roxh. Chadaigodi, Or. 



A large shrub with oblong or lanceolate shining leaves 5-9" by 

 1-5-33" glabrous, acute or usually acuminate, and mostly with 

 undulate margins. Petiole o-l" long. FloAvers Avhite, odorous,, 

 corymbose on the slender branches of long peduncled brachiate 

 panicles. Cor.-tube •28-32" long, petals spreading and reflexed 'IQ- 

 •18" long. Fruit succulent "S" diam. dull-purple or slate-coloured 

 with two plano-convex pyrenes. 



Not A'erj- common and always in the vicinity of water. Santal P., fairly frequent I 

 Singbhum, in the Saranda forests! Manbhum and Hazaribagh, on Parasnath ! 

 Hundrughagh (Kanchi), Pra/)/ ! KQO-n]\\\\Y, teste Grieve \ Bonai, Cooper \ Mayur- 

 bhanj, elev. 2500 ft.! Puri (Kiihuri forest and in the Mais) ! Fl, April-May. Fr, 

 Aug.-Sept. Evergreen. 



Blaze pink, then white. L. usually tapering both ends and distinctl3^ petioled 

 though some of the leaves on the Ranchi specimens are scarcely petioled, sec. n, 

 12-lti with many rather irregular intermeiliate, all very slender. Stipules broad, 

 and rounded but with a slender cusp. Panicles G-8" long often with a slender 

 petluncle 3" long, at other times a bjanch arises at its base, internodes long and 

 elongating in truit, lower bracts "6" long sometimes with a broad toothed base, 



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