140 LXXV. KUBIACEJ;. ( J. D. Hooker.) [ Ixora. 



A shrub or small tree. Leaves 7-12 by l-J-S^ in., brownish when dry, mem- 

 branous, points long and slender, above often glabrate, beneath hairy chiefly on the 

 15-20 pair of slender nerves, sometimes obscurely contracted above the cordate base 

 (panduriform) ; stipules villous with very long filiform hairy points. Flowers sessile 

 amongst filiform bracteoles. Calyx-teeth very slender. Corolla in. diam. ; lobes 

 lanceolate, acuminate, the length of the tube. Filaments subulate. Stigma small. 

 Fruit ellipsoid or globose, ^ in. long, glabrous. 



** Calyx-teeth longer and broader than the ovary, elliptic oblong or sub- 

 orbicular ; cymes corymbiforni. 



9. I. polyantha, Wight Ic. t. 1066; robust, glabrous except the villous 

 or pubescent cymes, leaves large sessile or short-petioled obovate elliptic-oblong 

 or -lanceolate acuminate coriaceous, cymes subsessile corymbiforni contracted 

 or open very many-flowered branches robust, calyx-lobes ovate-lanceolate very 

 mucn longer and larger than the ovary, corolla glabrous, tube slender -l|- in., 

 lobes narrowly obovate obtuse, mouth glabrous. I. corymbosa, Heyne in WalL 

 Cat. 6155. I. grandis, Miq. in Herb. Hohenack. n. 517. 



WESTERN PENINSULA ; on the Ghats from the Concan to Cochin, Wight, Law, &c. 



Shrubby, branches robust. Leaves 6-12 by 2| 5 in. ; pale greenish when dry, 

 narrowed to the short stout petiole; stipules broad with long cuspidate points. 

 Cymtfs^, either collected into a globose sessile head or more open and 4 by 5 in. long 

 and broad ; branches suberect, sometimes white with dense woolly spreading hair ; 

 bracts and bracteoles oblong, acute, membranous, caducous ; flowers sessile. Calyx 

 sometimes ^ in. long, pubescent, lobes like the bracteoles. Corolla in. diam., quite 

 glabrous. Filaments flattened. Stigma rather large, with stout recurved arms. 

 Fruit not seen. The bracts and calyx are very different from those of any congener.. 



t * 10. I. K-ing-stoni, Hook. /. ; glabrous, branches and leaves above 

 shining, leaves petioled elongate oblong or oblanceolate obtusely acuminate 

 membranous, cymes sessile between two small leaves corymbiforni contracted 

 dense-flowered, branches short and stout puberulous, calyx-teeth membranous 

 glabrous almost orbicular larger than the ovary, corolla-tube 1-1 1 in. very 

 slender, lobes obovate obtuse, mouth naked. 



MALACCA, Griffith (Kew Distrib. 2996). 



Branches as thick as a duck's quill, black, smooth, and polished when dry, inter- 

 nodes long. Leaves 7-12 by 2-3| in., pale brown when dry, deflexed in flower/ 

 erect in the fruit, base acute; nerves slender, 15-20 pair; petiole ^ in., black ; 

 stipules short, closely appressed, apiculate. Cymes 4 in. diam., very dense-flowered ; 

 bracts and bracteoles broadly elliptic, coriaceous, deciduous. Calyx \ in. long, glabrous. 

 Corolla red?, limb ^ in. diam. Stigma small, entire or notched. Filaments flattened. 

 Fruit ^ in. long, globose or obliquely ovoid, crowned by the broad calyx-lobes., The 

 membranous leaves^tout short cyme-branches and the calyx, afford good characters. 

 It is clearly allied to /. acuminata. Mr. Kingston, whose services this very hand- 

 some species commemorates, was for some years an active assistant in the Herbarium 

 department of Kew. 



11. I. merg-uensis, Hook. /. : glabrous, very robust, leaves large 

 obovate or oblong-obovate abruptly acuminate opaque coriaceous, cymes sessile 

 corymbiforni globose densely many-flowered excessively branched from the 

 very base, calyx-teeth puberulous elliptic longer than the ovary, corolla-tubo 

 f in. slender, lobes obovate or oblong obtuse, mouth nearly naked. 



TENASSERIM ; Mergui, Griffith (Kew Distrib. 3003). 



A low shrub; branches stout, cylindric, grey and opaque when dry. Leaves 7-12 

 by 2-5 in., pale when dry and quite dull, narrowed into a short stout petiole ; stipules 

 very short, coriaceous, apiculate. Cymes 3-4 in. diam. ; branches quite hidden by 

 the flowers ; bracts broad, deciduous ; flowers odorous, white or pale pink with a reel 



