150 LXXV, KUBIACEJE. (J. D. Hooker.) [Pavetta. 



longer, and ovules usually attached to a prominent placenta. DISTRIB. Species 

 about 60, in the tropics of the Old World. 



Pavetta, as here limited, differs from Ixora in the usually membranous more or 

 less sheathing stipulary bracts at the lower cyme branches, and the style twice as 

 long as the corolla-tube with a slender entire rarely notched stigma, oft^en more 

 slender than the style itself. Various pentamerous species placed in Pavetta by 

 authors are in this work referred to Wcbcra, with which they agree in habit, and the 

 short hairy style with a long fusiform 'grooved stigma. 



* Calyx-teeth much shorter than the ovary. 



1. P. indica, Linn.; DC. Prodr. iv. 490; glabrous pubescent or tomen- 

 tose, loaves membranous elliptic elliptic-lanceolate obovate or oblanceolate 

 rarely orbicular obtuse acute acuminate or caudate, cymes terminal sessile 

 coryinbiform, flowers pedicelled, calyx truncate or with Very short triangular 

 teeth, corolla-tube -f in. 



Throughout India from the WESTERN HIMALAYA in GARWIIAL (var. tomcntosa"}, 

 ascending to 4000 ft., to BHOTAN and BIBMA, and southwards to CEYLON, MALACCA, 

 and PENANG. DISTRIB. Malay Archipelago, S. China, N. Australia. 



One of the most common and variable Indian small trees or bushes. Leaves pale 

 or greenish when dry, 3-9 by |-3 in., a foot long in some Khasian specimens ; petiole 

 -l in. stipules short, broad. Cymes 1-5 in. diam., rounded, or reduced to few 

 scattered flowers ; bracts broad, membranous, lower cupular ; flowers on slender 

 pedicels, white, rather fragrant. Corolla-tube twice or thrice as long as the oblong 

 lobes. Stigma very slender, fusiform. Berry size of a pea, 2-seeded. Flowers occa- 

 sionally 5-merous (Wight & Arnott). 



VAR. 1. indica proper; leaves glabrous beneath or nearly so, cymes glabrate, 

 corolla glabrous. P. indica, Linn. ; Wall. Cat. 6175, excl. F. ; W. $ A. Prodr. 431 ; 

 Wight Ic. t. 148; Thw. Enum. 155; Dalz. $ Gibs. Bomb. Fl. 112; Brandis For. Fl. 

 275. P. Finlaysoniana, Wall. Cat. 6177, and P. graciliflora, 6178. P. alba, Vahl 

 Symb. iii. 11. P. petiolaris, Wall. Cat. 6186. Ixora paniculata, LamJc. Diet. iii. 344. 

 I. Pavetta, Roxb. Fl. Ind. \. 385 ; Kurz For. Fl. ii. 18; Rhcede Hort. Mai. xix. t. 10. 

 Thwaites discriminates two varieties: 1. With few-flowered cymes, slender pedicels, 

 and narrow lanceolate leaves ; 2. With puberulous cymes and leaves pubescent 

 beneath : both are found in Continental India, with many more founded on as slight 

 characters. A third Ceylon one, montana, I have retained as distinct. 



VAR. 2. polyantha; Wall Cat. 6176 (sp.); cymes pubescent, flowers densely 

 crowded. P. indica, Wall. Cat. 6175F.; Bot. Reg. t. 198. P. Rothiana, DC. Prodr. 

 iv. 491 ; W. A. Prodr. 431. P. villosa, Heyne in Roth Nov. Sp. 88, not of Vahl. 

 Ixora tomentosa, var. glabrescens, Kurz For. Fl. ii. 19. 



VAR. 3. tomentosa, Roxb. in Smith Cyclop, (sp.) ; leaves glabrous or softly or 

 harshly puberulous above, beneath and the cymes pubescent tomentose or softly 

 villous. I. tomentosa, DC. Prodr. iv. 490 ; Heyne in Roth Nov. Sp. 89 ; W. # A. 

 Prodr. 431 ; ? Thw. Enum. 156; Brand. For. Fl. 275; Wall. Cat. 6173. P.Brunonis, 

 Wight Ic. t. 1065. P. velutina, mollis, and canescens, Wall. Cat. 6174, 6179, 6181. 

 Ixora tomentosa, Roxb. Hort. Beng. 11 ; Fl. Ind. i. 386 ; Wight Ic. t. 186 ; Kurz For. 

 Fl. ii. 19. As common and widely spread as var. 1, but less variable in form of 

 leaf. .^ 



VAR. 4. montana, Thw. mss. ; quite glabrous, leaves 2-3 in. coriaceous narrowly 

 elliptic-oblong, tip rounded, corolla-tube \ in., style stout, stigma clavate. Ceylon 

 common, alt, 3-4000 ft., Thwaites. 



VAR. 5. minor; quite glabrous, leaves small (2-4 in.) narrowly obovate *or 

 elliptic-lanceolate obtuse or acute, cymes terminal sessile corymbiform, calyx-teeth 

 subulate acute, corolla ^-\ in., stigma subclavate. Shevagherry hills, Wight (Kew 

 Distrib. 1483). Looks different from P. indica in the smaller size of all its parts, 

 acute calyx-teeth, and rather more clavate stigma. 



2. P. subcapitata, Hook. f. ; leaves elliptic-lanceolate caudate-acumi- 

 nate finely pubescent beneath, cymes terminal sessile capitate many-flowered, 



