146 LXXV. RUBIACEJE. (J. D. Hooker.) [Ixora.. 



have no means of verifying. The flowers vary from scarlet and pink to white and 

 yellowish. Kurz makes 2 varieties: 1. Roxburghiana, with almost sessile leaves 

 often rounded at the base, -and subsessilo or sessile cymes ; and 2. Blumeana (Pavetta 

 javanica, Blumc), with short-petioled leaves acute at the base and laxer cymes on 

 peduncles 1-1 in. The latter of these I take to be /. amcena, "Wall. Cat. 6121 A. B. C. 

 /. rosca, Wall. Cat. 6124. from the Calcutta Garden, is probably a variety of this 

 with acute calyx-teeth and narrower corolla-lobes. 



26. I. amoena, Wall. Cat. 6121, D. E. F. ; G. Don Gen. Syst. in. 671 ; 

 glabrous or cymes puberulous, leaves petioled lanceolate or oblong- or obovate- 

 lanceolate acuminate, base acute, cymes sessile or peduncled corynibiform, 

 flowers crowded, calyx-teeth ovate-lanceolate shorter than the ovary, corolla- 

 tube 1-1 j in., lobes oblong obtuse, mouth naked. 



^TEXASSERIM, at Mergui, Griffith (Kew Distrib. 2986) ; PEXANG, Wallich, Phillips, 

 Maingay (Kew Distrib. 846). DISTRIB. Java. 



This differs from 7. stricta in its laxer more slender habit and longer lanceolate 

 acuminate, more membranous leaves with petioles ^-^ in., but I suspect it will prove- 

 only a form of that plant. 



27. I. fulg-ens, Eoxb. Hort. Beng. 10; Fl. Ind. i. 378; glabrous, branches 

 slender polished, leaves petioled linear- or obovate-oblong abruptly acutely or 

 obtusely acuminate, base acute, shining above with 20-30 pair of deeply sunk 



.nerves, cymes large sessile or shortly peduncled corymbiform and very open or 

 sub-braehiate, branches long slender spreading, flowers shortly pedicelled, calyx- 

 teeth very short obtuse, corolla-tube 1-1 f in., lobes ovate acute, mouth naked. 

 DC. Prodr. iv. 486; Wight Ic. t. 151; Wall. Cat. 6152 A.- I. salidfolia, DC. 

 1. c. 487 ; Sot. Mag. t. 4523. Pavetta fulgens, Miq. FL Ind. Bat. ii. 264. P. 

 salicifolia, Blume Bijd. 951. P. Lobbii, Teysm. 8? Binnend. in Miq. Ann. Mus. 

 Ludg. Bat. iv. 194. 



TENASSERIM, Heifer (Kew Distrib. 2998); MALACCA, Griffith (2985), Maingay 

 (845) ; SINGAPORE, Lobb ; PENANG, Wallich. DISTRIB. Java, Borneo. 



A shrub, branches erect Leaves 5-9 by 1^-2 in., membranous, dark brown when 

 dry, surface, often raised between the nerves, base always acute ; petiole \-% in.; 

 stipules closely grasping the stem, with slender cusps. Cyme quite sessile, secondary 

 branches long spreading horizontally, the whole forming a loose inflorescenoaJ^T bfr 

 broad but not so high; bracts and bract eoles short, ovate, acute; llov,v,.> sh'ortly 

 pedicelled, orange then scarlet. Fruit spherical or didymou*. "succulent a; 

 rugose," Eoxb. 



28. X. cong-esta, Roxb. Fl. Ind. i. 387; glabrous except, th<;^- ilvmlous 

 cymes, leaves large petioled elliptic or elliptic-oblong or ~l ail f r r PC '' ( ff r ' 

 obtusely acuminate, base rarely rounded, nerves- strong .} ''median rido^l 1 ' 

 shovt Avith short cusps, cymes sessile or subsessile '*;o^ijxcecd the tubv ' 5 ' S ^" G1 T 

 stout suberect ijistigate, calyx-teeth very short %L 

 -1^ in., lobes' obtuse, mouth naked. DC. Prodf\ 



I. Griffithii, Hook. Jtf. Mag. t. 4325. I. futeens, 4 Illd - J - ' 380 '- ai^J 

 congesta,- Miq. Fl. Ind, Bat. ii. 269. ' Ian ceolate or . ( .1 ,1 . > i , _ ^ 'f. 



TENASSERIM; Tavoy and Attran, WallicJi, Gomc~. PKNAJO ;:s ^ : S 

 Wallich, &c. MALACCA, Griffith (Kew Distrib. 2984 j, Mc'nnja;/ <s 



An evergreen tree (Kurz}, closely allied to 7. f/i^/ei/f, diffenmi/in the stouter ' 

 habit, very large usually coriaceous broader leaves G-12 by 2-4 in., with nerves very 

 prominent beneath, and petioles ^-f in., and the very stout cyme-branches, whioi 

 not spread, but are fast igi ate ; the stipules, too, are broader and shorter; the bracts J 

 are the same, very triangular, and the flowers are sometimes sessile, at others on, 

 stotit pedicels ; fruit ovoid or globose or didj^mous. 



29. X. rug-osula, Wall. Cat. 6158 ; glabrous except the eymes, leaves 

 petioled ovate or elliptic oj lanceolate acuminate, base acute or rounded, stipules. 



