158 RUBiACE.^. [Pavetta. 



In the Happy Valley, at West Point, on IMount Gough, etc.. Champion, Wilford, and 

 others. Widely spread over tropical Asia, from Ceylon and the Peninsula to Sikkim, Khasia, 

 Burmah, the Ai-chipelago, and apparently to the north coast of Australia. 



13. IXORA, Linn. 



Calyx-limb small, 4-tootlied. Corolla-tube slender, lobes 4, imbricate in 

 the bud. Style exserted, with 2 stigmatic lobes, usually spreading. Ovary 

 2 -celled, with 1 ovule in each cell peltately attached to the centre of the par- 

 tition. Berry slightly drupaceous, globular, 2-celled. Seeds attached by 

 their flat face. — Shrubs or small trees. Stipules solitaiy on each side, pointed, 

 with a broad base. Flowers in terminal, dense or large corymbs, or panicles, 

 or sometimes in smaller axillaiy or lateral cymes. 



A considerable geuus, dispersed over the tropical regions both of the New and the Old World. 



1. I. stricta, Roxh. ; W. and Am. Prod. Fl. Penins. i. 427 ; Wight, Ic. 

 ^.184. A glabrous sluiib. Leaves obovate-oblong, 3 to 5 in. long, the lower 

 ones sometimes naiTOwed at the base into a short petiole, the upper ones, 

 although naiTower below the middle, obtuse at the veiy base and quite sessile, 

 or nearly so. Flowers in dense tenninal sessile coiymbs. Calyx small. 

 CoroUa-tube 1 to 1^^ in. long ; the lobes broad, obtuse, about 3 lines long. 



In woods at East Point, near the Buddhist Temple, Champion, Wilford ; also Hance and 

 Wright. The Hongkong plant is always said to have pale pink flowers, which variety is 

 only known from S. China. A white variety {I. blanda, or I. alba, Roxb.) is described by 

 Roxburgh from cultivated plants introduced fi-om S. China. An orange-coloured variety, 

 which I have not seen, is said to be in the Archipelago. 



13. GUETTARDELLA, Champ. 



Calyx-limb deeply 4-lobed, persistent. Corolla-tube slender; lobes 4, spread- 

 ing, slightly imbricate in the bud. Anthers included in the tube. Ovaiy 4- 

 or rarely 5 -celled, with 1 pendulous oblong ovule in each cell. Style di\nded at 

 the top into 4 or 5 linear lobes. Fruit a drupe, with 4 or 5 1 -seeded stones. — 

 Shrubs. Stipides one on each side, pointed, with a broad base. Peduncles 

 axUlary, bearing a cyme of few small flowers. 



A genus very nearly allied to Guettarda, and of which only one species from the Philip- 

 pine Islands is known besides the Chinese one. 



1. G. chinensis, Champ, in Kew Journ. Bot. iv. 197. A small shnib, 

 the young branches closely pubescent. Leaves oblong-lanceolate, acuminate, 

 1 to 2 in. long, acute at the base, sprinkled vdi\\ a few hairs or glabrous above, 

 hoaiy underneath with close somewhat silky hairs, on a petiole of 1 or 2 lines. 

 Peduncles 6 to 10 lines long, bearing 3 or 5 flowers, the inteimediate one 

 sessile, the others tenninating the branches. Cah^s scarcely 1 line long, with 

 short equal lobes. Corolla 2 lines, with veiy short obtuse lobes. Drape 

 ovoid, pubescent, 2 lines long. 



On Mount Gough and IMount Victoria, Chamyion ; also Wright. Not as yet found out of 

 the island. 



14. CANTHIUM, Lam. 



Cahrx-Hmb short, 4- or 5 -toothed. Corolla-tube short ; lobes 4 or 5, spread- 

 ing, valvate in the bud. Stigma exserted, entire, ovoid or mitre-shaped. 



