PLATE LXXVIII. 



IXORA PAVETTA 



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Sweet Ixora. 



CLASS 



IV. 



ORDER 



I. 



TETRANDRIA MONOGYNIA. Four Chives. One Pointal 



GENEKIC CHARACTER. 



Calyx. Pcrianthium quadripartitum, mini- 

 mvinij ercftum, perfiftens. 



Corolla monopetala, infundibuliformis. Tu- 

 bus cylindraceus, longiflimus_, tenuis. Lim- 

 bus quadripartltus; planus; laciniis ovatis. 



Stamina. Filamenta quatuor, brevilTuna, in 

 divifuris corolloe. Antherae oblongae. 



PisTiLLUM, Germen fubrotundura, intra bafin 

 calycis. Stylus filiformls, longitudine tubi. 

 Stigma bifidam, 



Pericakfium. Bacca fubrotunda, bilcx:nlari.s. 

 Semina duo, hinc convexa, inde angulata. 



Empalement. Cup with four divifions^ very 

 finally upright, and remaining. 



Blossom of one petal, funnel-fliaped. Tube 

 cylindrical, veiy long, and fmalh Border 

 of four divifions and flat 3 the fegments 

 egg-fliaped. 



Chives. Four threads, very fhort, placed in 

 the divifions of the bloiTom. Tips oblong. 



Pointal, Seed-bud roundifli, in the bottom 

 of the cup. Shaft thread-lhaped, the length 

 of the tube. Summit two-cleft. 



Seed-vessel. A roundifh berry, witli two cells. 



Seeds, two, hollow on the infide, and angled 

 without. 



SPECIFIC CHARACTER. 



Ixora follis obtufis, undulatis, petiolatis, flori- 

 bus fafciculatis, odoratis, fordide luteis. 



Ixora with blunt, waved, leaves, having foot- 

 ftalks; flowers grow in bunches, are fweet 

 fcented, and of a dirty yellow. 



REFERENCE TO THE PLATE. 



1. The Empalement, (magnified), 



2. A Bloflbm with the feed-bud attached, (natural fize) 



3. The fame with the Empalement, (magnified). 



4. The Pointal, (natural fize). 



5. The fame, magnified. 



To the Lady Dowager de Clifford are we indebted, for the introduaion of this new fpecies of Ixora, 

 a native of the Eaft Indies; her Ladyflilp having received it from thence, in the year J 796, It is a 

 tender hot-houfe plant, growing to the height of a foot, or more, and very bufhy ; the bunches of 

 flowers are very large, covering nearly the whole upper part of the plant, and are exceedingly fra- 

 grant. The blofforas begin to expand about the beginning of Auguft, and continue to blow in fuc- 

 ^ffion, till the end of Odober. The only plant we have yet heard of, in England, is in her Lady- 

 l^hips colledion at Paddington; \vhere it has flowered for the firft time this year, and where our 



jt jg propagated like the other fpecies of Ixora, by cuttings, and fliould be kept 



drawing was made, 

 in rich earth. 



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