142 LXXV. RUBiACEyE. (J. D. Hooker.) [Ixora. 



MABTABAN, TENASSEBEK, and ANDAMAN ISLANDS, in forests, Wallich, Helftr (Kew 

 Eistrib. 2992). 



, A large evergreen shrub. Leaves 4-9 by 1^-2^ in., rather membranous, brown 

 when dry, shining above; nerves 15-18 pair, very slender, horizontal or arched; 

 floral pair very variable, large or small, base rounded or cordate ; petiole f-f in. ; 

 stipules with long cusps. Peduncles very slender, often from short lateral shoots ; 

 Cyme 2-3 in. diam., few-flowered; flowers loose, white, sessile or pedicelled; bracts 

 and bracteoles minute, subulate or obsolete. Filaments slender. Stigma cleft. Fruit 

 size of a pea, didymous. 



16. I. Brandisiana, Kurz in Journ. As. Soc. 1872, ii. 316; For. Fl. ii. 

 25 ; glabrous except the cyme, leaves skort-petioled elliptic- or oblong-lanceo- 

 late acuminate, peduncles 4-5 in. drooping, cymes small subbrachiate branches 

 short, calyx-teeth triangular shorter than the ovary, corolla-tube f-1 in. (J^- 

 2 in., Kurz), lobes oblong, mouth villous. 



UPPER TENASSERIM, Heifer ; at Attran, Brand is. 



An evergreen shrub. Leaves 4-6 by }- 2 in., rather meiribranous, dark brown 

 when dry, finely acuminate, base rounded or acute; nerves 1214 pair, slender; 

 uppermost pair often small and sessile. ; petiole -- in. ; stipules broad, cusp long. 

 C'ym-e -2 in. diam.; branches short, 'pubescent, soon dividing and rather stout, 

 puberukras ; bracts and Lracteoles minute, subulate ; flowers rather fascicled, white. 

 Corollas-very long (Kurz). Anthers sessile, base entire. Fruit unknown. I have 

 only two indsfferent specimens from Dr. King and Heifer: both agree in all-respects 

 with Kurz's/lescription, except that the peduncles are not short, nor the corolla-lobes 

 acute, and the flowers do not exceed 1 in. in length. The remarkable acumination of 

 the leaves, and the cymes being hardly brachiate, distinguish it from all others of 

 this group. 



^ Peduncle of cyme less than 2 in. ; erect or suberect, or 0. 

 Cymes not articulate at the ramifications, brachiate, rarely corymbiform. 



7. I. brachiata, Ro.vb. Hort. Seng. 10; Fl. Ind. i. 381 ; quite glabrous 

 :ymes pubescent, leaves petioled oblong or elliptic obtuse, cymes sessile or 

 short!}' pect uncled brachiate with 2-3 pairs of long branches, flowers in globose 

 clusters, calyx-teeth shorter' than the ovary, corolla-tube in., lobes short 

 obtuse glolbose in bud, mouth naked. DC. Prodr. iv. 488 ; W. 8f A. Prodr. 

 429 ; Wight Ic. t. 710 ; Wall. 'Cat. G142. I. obtusata and I. Arnottiana, Miq. 

 in Herb. Hohenack 161 and 565. 



WESTERN PENINSULA; on the Grhats from the Concan southwards. 



A tree 30 ft., or a stout shrub. Leaves 3-7 by 1^-3 in., pale when dry, always 

 obtuse, coriaceous or rather membranous, narrowed or rarely rounded at the base ; 

 nerves as faint as the veins ; petiole - f in. ; stipules short, cusps short. Cymes 4-6 

 -in. long and broad, rachis and long horizontal branches slender inarticulate, inter- 

 nodes distant; lower bracts stipuliform, bracteoles minute; flowers white, odorous, 

 sessile or pedicelled. Anthers sessile. Style glabrous or pubescent ; 's\igma sub- 

 capitate, simple or cleft. Fruit globose or obscurely didymous. Seeds very thin, 

 sides incurved so that the transverse section represents a dorsally corijprcssed tube. 

 Flowers the smallest of the genus, and the only one with globose buds. 



18. I. parviflora, Vahl Symb. iii. 11, t. 52; glabrous, or the cymes 

 pubescent, leaves subsessile oblong or elliptic obtuse base rounded or cordate 

 very rarely narrowed, cymes sessile brachiate with 3-5 pairs of short branches, 

 flowers in subglobose clusters, calyx-teeth very short obtuse, corolla glabrous, 

 tube in., lobes oblong, buds ovoid. Roxb. FL Ind. i. 383; DC. Prodr. iv. 

 488: Wight in IIooL Sot. Misc. iii. 203, Supjd. t. 34; Ic. t. 711; W. $ A.\ 

 Prodr. 429; Bedd. Fl. Syh. 1. 222: Dak. 8f Gibs. Bomb. Fl. 113; "Brand. For. 

 Fl. 275; Kurz For. Fl. ii. 21. I. arborea, Roxb.;, DC. 1. c. I. decipiens^ 

 DC. I. c. I. Pavetta, Andr. Bot. Rep. t. 78 (not of Roxb.}. 



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