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OR, BOTANICAL DICTIONARY. 



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three and a half longer than the tube. The roots of this (and 

 indeed of almost all the plants of this genus) are frequently 

 eaten by the inhabitants of the Cape of Good Hope, where it 

 i* a native. 



Ixora ; a genus of the class Tetrandria, order Monogynia. 

 GENERIC CHARACTER. Calix: perianth four-parted, 

 very small, upright, permanent. Corolla : one-petalled, fun- 

 nel-form; tube cyliudric, very long, slender; border four- 

 parted, flat; divisions ovate. Stamina: filamenta four, 

 above the mouth of the corolla, very short: antherus oblong. 

 Pistil: germen roundish, inferior; style filiform, length of 

 the tube; stigma two-cleft. Pericarp: berry roundish, 

 two-celled. Seeds : by fours, convex on one side, cornered 

 on the other. Observe. Gaertner says the seeds are soli- 

 tary; partition perforated through the middle. ESSEN- 

 TIAL CHARACTER. Corolla: one-petalled, funnel-form, 

 long, superior. Stamina: above the mouth. Berry: four- 

 seeded. The plants of this genus are propagated from 

 seeds, when the seed can be procured from their native coun- 

 tries ; for they do not perfect seeds in England. They 

 should be sown as soon as they arrive, in small pots, and 

 plunged into a hot bed : if they arrive in autumn or winter, 

 the pots may be plunged into the tan-bed in the stove, between 

 the pots of other plants, where they will take up lillle room ; 

 but when they arrive in the spring, it will be best to plunge 

 them into a tan-bed under frames. The seeds when fresh 

 will sometimes come up in about six weeks; when not fresh, 

 they often lie four or five months, and sometimes even a 

 whole year, in the ground. On this account the earth should 

 not be thrown out of the pots till there is no hope of their 

 growing. When they come up, and are fit to remove, they 

 should be each placed in a separate small pot, filled with 

 light earth, and afterwards treated in the manner directed 

 for the Coffee-tree. They may also be increased by cut- 

 tings during the summer months. The cuttings should be 

 planted in small pots, plunged into a moderate hot-bed, cover- 

 ing them close with bell or hand glasses, to exclude the ex- 

 ternal air, and shading them carefully from the sun in the 

 heat of the day, until they have put out good roots ; when 

 they should be parted, and each put into a separate pot, 

 treating them as the seeding plants. Mr. Curtis remarks, 

 that though we have been accustomed to treat the Ixorue as 

 stove-plants, they may perhaps be more hardy than we sus- 

 pect. The species are, 



1. Ixora Coccinea; Scarlet Ixora. Leaves oval, half stem- j 

 clasping; flowers in bundles. Stem woody, five or six feet | 

 high, sending out many slender branches, covered with a I 



brown oark ; flowers with very long tubes, cut into four 

 ovate segments, and of a deep red colour. Native of the 

 East Indies, China, and Cochin-china. 



2. Ixora Alba ; White Ixora. Leaves lanceolate-ovate : 

 flowers in bundles. The flowers terminate in small clusters, 

 have long slender tubes, divided into four segments at top, 

 and are white and scentless ; stem woody, six or seven feet 

 high, sending out weak branches. Native of the East Indies 

 and Cochin-china. 



3. Ixora Americana ; American Ixora or Jasmin. Leaves 

 in threes; lanceolate-ovate; flowers thyrsoid. The flowers 

 appear at the ends of the bra-nches in a loose spike, are white, 

 and have a scent like Jasmin ; whence, in Jamaica, and other 

 islands of the West Indies, where it is a native, it is called 

 Wild Jasmin. It rises with a shrubby stalk four or five feet 

 high, sending out slender branches, opposite. 



4. Ixora Fasciculata. Leaves ovate, elliptic, those of the 

 branchlets subfascicled ; peduncles subtriflorous. Native of 

 Jamaica. 



5. Ixora Multiflora. Leaves lanceolate-ovate, bundled ; 

 peduncles aggregate, one-flowered, very short ; berries one- 

 seeded. Native of Jamaica. 



. 6. Ixora Montana. Leaves turbinate-oblong, cordate at 

 the base; flowers fastigiate. Stem shrubby, upright, branch- 

 ed, four feet high ; flowers terminating, scarlet. Perhaps a 

 variety of the first species. Native of Cochin-china. 



7. Ixora Novemnervia. Stem scandent; leaves nerved, 

 rough ; cymes terminating. This is a large, climbing, 

 branched, unarmed shrub ; flowers white ; stamina above 

 the throat ; stigma ovate, bifid. Native of Cochin-china. 



8. Ixora Violacea. Leaves nerved, hairy; flowers axil- 

 lary ; they are violet-coloured. This also is a large, climbing, 

 branching, unarmed shrub. Native of Cochin-china. 



9. Ixora Parviflora. Leaves subsessile, lanceolate-oblong ; 

 panicle terminating. Branches smooth, jointed, round at 

 bottom, but compressed at top ; flowers scarlet, some say 

 white. Native of the East Indies. 



10. Ixora Flammea. Leaves elliptic-lanceolate, bluuti&h, 

 stalked, narrow at the base ; segments of the corolla orbicu- 

 lar, obtuse, rather convex ; style extended to half the length 

 of the limb. Flowers flame-coloured, splendid. Native of 

 Java and China. 



11. Ixora Longifolia. Leaves ovato-lanceolate, taper- 

 pointed; segments of the corolla elliptical, sharpish, reflexed. 

 Corymbs of innumerable flowers, of a vermilion hue inside, 

 become darker by age. Native of most of the islands in the 

 East Indies. 



K JE M 



K^EM 



KjEMPFERIA ; a genus of the class Monandria, order 

 Monogynia. GENERIC CHARACTER. Calix: perianth su- 

 perior, obscure. Corolla ; one-petalled ; tube long, slender ; 

 border flat, six-parted ; the three alternate divisions lanceolate, 

 equal ; the other two divisions ovate ; the upper one two- 

 parted, the divisions obcordate ; all equal i length. Sta- 

 mina: filamentum one, membranaceotis, subovate, emargi- 

 nate ; anthera; linear, doubled, entirely adnate, scarce emerg- 

 ing from the tube of the corolla. Pistil: germen roundish ; 

 style the length of the tube; stigma two-plated, roundish. 

 Pericarp : capsule roundish, three-sided, three-celled, three- 

 ralved. Seeds: several. Observe. It rarely bears fruit : the 

 gurmen is seated near the root. ESSENTIAL CHARACTER. 

 Corolla: six-parted, three of the parts larger, spreading, one 



or two parted. Stiyma: two-plated. The species are, 



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1. Keempferia Galanga ; Galanyale. Leaves ovate, ses- 

 sile ; segments of the corolla lanceolate-linear. It is an an- 

 nual, stemlcss, juicy plant ; root bulbous, palmate, creeping ; 

 flowers radical, solitary, juicy, very white, with a large violet 

 spot in the middle. The smell of the whole plant is aro- 

 matic, pleasant, and permanent ; the taste is sharpish ; the 

 colour of the root white within, purple on the outside. 

 An infusion of the roots (which are kept by the druggist 

 in boiling water, or a tincture made with brandy, is a good 

 medicine in windy complaints, and other disorders of th<- 

 stomach, as well as for head-aches, which arise in gent- 

 ral more from debility than any other cause. Native of the 

 East Indies. This and the next species, being natives of hot 

 countries, will not bear the open air in England, and require 

 a warm stove to preserve them through the winter : but as 

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