570 BENGAL PLANTS. [Pavetta, 
985/2. Var. tomentosa F. B. I. iii. 150. Iaora tomentosa F. 1. 
i. 386. 
In most of the provinces. 
A large bush or small tree. Beng. Jui; Kol. Sikreba, 
sikerup ; Santal. Budhi tilai, budhi ghasit. 
425, Ixora Linn. 
Shrubs or small trees; branches —— leaves opposite, rarely 
ternate; stipules interpetiolar, Flowers in terminal, 3-choto- 
mously branched, often panvithoes cymes; bracteoles 2. Sepals 
connate 
5 
-e. 
Q. 
ee 
4 
eh 
S 
Pe 
5 
o 
ye 
Ot et 
5 
= 
© 
Road 
< 
o 
> id 
crateriform corolla; tube very long, standets lobes spreading, 
— Stamens 4, very rarely 5, adnate to the mouth of the 
berry with 2 coriaceous pyrenes. Seed almost filling the ares 
peltate; testa membranous ; albumen horny; embryo with thin, 
flat cotyledons. 
Calyx-teeth much longer than ovary; corolla white; flowers in yore 
or subsessile cymes...... . acuminaa. 
Calyx-teeth shorter than or rarely (I. undulata) equalling ‘te ovary a 
Cymes long-peduncled, 6-10 in. long, brachiate ; flowers W. 
spectabilis. 
Cymes short-peduncled, 2 in. long or less te 
Cymes not jointed at the A ai ee flowers whi 
parviflora 
Cymes jointed at the ramifications :— olia. 
Branches pubescent ; cymes brachiate ; flowers white. camel 
Branches glabrous :— 
ymes brachiate, with 3~4 slender branches ; flowers mere 
Cymes back emernaih, sessile or subsessile ; flowers red oF, rarelY. 
yellow 
Corolle acute ., sone sist nO 
rolla-lobes basal Wee ies Wile 
