No, 386. 
IXORA COCCINEA. 
Class. Order. 
TETRANDRIA MONOGYNIA. 
This superb plant is a native of India and 
the southern parts of China, where also it 
is much encouraged on account of the 
splendour of its flowers, which in those 
climates are produced throughout the whole 
of the year. It is recorded to have been 
cultivated in England at an early period, so 
long since as 1690, by the Earl of Portland, 
who brought over many plants from Hol- 
land, but it was probably soon lost again, and 
has since been re-introduced. With us, it 
requires the stove heat, and in general 
flowers during the spring and summer. It 
is easily propagated by cuttings, and should 
have a rich loamy soil, with a good supply 
of water, and great care taken to keep all 
insects from it, which it well deserves, for 
when in fine bloom few plants are more 
attractive. 
While viewing such a beautiful produc- 
tion, how ought our hearts to be enlarged ! 
