18 RUBIACER. [Ixora. 
branchlets, but appearing lateral on account of the growing out 
of the terminal shoots ;_inyolucral bracts small and inconspicu- 
ous, broad-ovate, imbricate ; calyx about a line long, glabrous, 
the teeth oblong, rounded, 4 a: line long; corolla glabrous, the 
tube only 3 lin. long, rather wide, the lobes oblong, blunt, as 
long as the tube. 
Haz.—Upper Tenasserim, at 2,000 ft. elevation.—F, Apr. 
(and in Roxburgh’s figure also axillary) ; bracts small, lanceolate ; 
calyx hairy, 5-cleft, the lobes lanceolate, persistent; corolla funnel- 
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mner face a deep pit filled with the spongy receptacle ; intezument 
single, thin.—(From Roxburgh’s Flor. Ind.) 
8—12+4+2—3), all parts | glabrous ; stipules broadly ovate, acute, 
5] 
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the size of a large pea, crowned by the circular scar of the fall 
cal h, black. E Seite 
Has.—Frequent in the coast forests of the Andamans.—F, Fr. ©.—s, 
6. I. pavetta, Roxb. (Pavetta indica, L.; Bedd. Sylv. Madr. 
134-7).—A large shrub, all parts glabrous; stipules broadly 
ovate, mucronate or acute; leaves obovate-oblong to obovate- 
