Pavetta] LXI. BUBIACE.E 387 



21. PAVETTA, Linn. : Fl. Brit. Ind. iii. 149. 



Differs from Ixora by membranous leaves, the bracts at the lower cyme 

 branches membranous, more or less sheathing, and the style as a rule twice 

 the length of the corolla-tube, with a slender, entire, rarely notched stigma. 

 Species about 70. tropics of the Old World. 



1. P. indica, Linn.— Syn. P. Em mini*. Wight Ic. t. 1065; Ixora tomen- 

 tosa, Roxb. : Wight Ic. t. 18G. Vera. Angari, Puldu, N. W. India ; Tapra, 

 Papidi, Tel. : Pdvate, Kan. : Pavettai, Tarn. : limit naban, Hmitgyin, 

 s, baung-gyan, Burm. 



A large shrub, glabrous or tomentose, branchlets obtusely quadrangular, 

 1. elliptic-lanceolate, sometimes lanceolate or obovate. blade 4-9 narrowed into 

 petiole \-i in. long. Fl. white, scented, pedicelled in ample trichotomous, 

 sessile, usually pubescent cymes, often globose, up to in. diam., terminal, or 

 at the ends of short branchlets. Calyx as a rule pubescent, truncate or with 

 short triangular teeth, corolla-tube \—\ in. long, hairy inside, outside usually 

 glabrous. 



Fl. March-July. Three well marked varieties, two of which were described in my 

 old Forest Flora as distinct species: (a) indica proper, branchlets, 1.. cymes and calyx 

 glabrous or nearly so. Sikkim, to 2,000 ft. Bhutan. Lower Bengal. Andamans. 

 Burma, Upper and Lowe)'. Western Peninsula. Ceylon. Malay Peninsula and 

 Archipelago. China. New Guinea, (li minnr. glabrous, 1. small, lanceolate, calyx- 

 teeth acute, Tinnevelli and Travancore. in Imiiriilotr/, branchlets. leaves and cymes 

 tomentose, sec. a. distinct. Subhimalayan tract from the Jumna eastwards. Behar. 

 Lower Bengal. Khasi hills. Manipur. Burma. I']. per and Lower. Malav Peninsula. 

 Tonkin. 



The following 5 species are nearly allied to /'. indica. A. "Western s|>ecies : 2. 

 P. hispidula, W. et A. \1'. siphonantha ) Dalz.). Western Chats of the Peninsula. 

 generally in evergreen forest. A slender shrub, 1. lanceolate or oblanceolate, glabrous 

 or pubescent beneath, turn black when dry. calyx-teeth triangular, acute, fl. yellow, 

 corolla-tube I-1J in. 3. P. wightii, Hook. f. Nilgiris. Almost wholly glabrous, I. 

 shining oblanceolate, cymes at the end of slender axillary branches, naked below, but 

 with a few!, at the base of cyme, calyx-teeth lanceolate, longer than ovary, corolla- 

 tube -lender. : in. long. 1. P. Brunonis, Wall. Nilgiris. L softly hirsute with long 



hairs, obovate or oblani late, cymes densely tomentose at the end of short naked 



branches, with a few 1. supporting the cyme, bracts large, calyx-teeth lanceolate, often 

 recurved, corolla-tube I in. long. B. Eastern: 5. P. subcapitata. Honk. f. Assam, 

 Khasi hills. L. caudate-acuminate, pubescent beneath, cymes sessile, compact, capi- 

 tate, calyx-teeth distant, verj short, corolla-tube $ in. long. 6. P. naucleiflora, "Wall. 

 Txora naucleiflora, Kurz). Bhutan, Assam, Khasi hills. Tenasserim. Malay Penin- 

 sula. Branchlets, I., cymes and calyx densely pubescent, cymes at the endsof long 



axillary naked bn he- with a pair of 1. at the lias,, of cyme, calyx-teeth subulate. 



7. P. breviflora, IX'. : Wight [c. t. 1035. Travancore al l.niinft. in evergreen forest 



Nilgiris, on t he higher ranee-, common. \ large glal - shrub or -mall tree, I. black 



when dry, lanceolate, oblanceolate or elliptic-lanceolate, blade 8 I. gradually narrowed 



Into petiole A ;( in. long. Fl. white, cymes small, sessil ' nearly so, at tin' ends of 



- 1 1. hi branchlets, naked below, often with a few I. at the base of the cyme, corolla-tube 

 ,* \ in. long, style glabrous, less than twice the Length of corolla-tube. Somewhat 

 do- fnh ra /»'■' »», which ha- 5-merous B. and a pubescent style. 



22. IXORA, I. in... : Fl. Br. Ind. iii. 137. 



Shrubs or small trees, as a rule evergreen, wood hard, branchlets usual lv 

 t'ouml. not angled, 1. mosth coriaceous. PI. tetramerous, I'i-liracteolnte, in 

 terminal txichotomous compound cymes, the 1. at the base of cyme often 

 sessile, corolla-tube long, very slender, as a rule glabrous outside, lobes 

 twisted in bud. Ovary --celled, style filiform, exserted less than twice the 

 length of rorolla-tube, stigma slender, branches 2, rarely persistently connate. 

 Drupe more or less didymous, pericarp coriaceous or fleshy, endocarp coriaceous, 

 ■J celled. Seeds two, peltate or concave, sometimes by abortion one only. 



