Jii'ora.J LXXY. EUBiACB^. (J. D. Hooker.) 145 



Shrubby. Leaves 5-8 by 2-3 in., coijiaceoxis, pala when dry, variable, base always 

 «cuneate or narrowed into the petiole, sometimes pubonilous beneath ; stipules J-J id. 

 Cymes and white flowers very much as in I. villosa, but sessile or shortly pedicelled, 

 puberulous or glabrate, and the flowers shorter and corolla-lobes not notched. 

 Filaments slender. Fruit the size of a pea, red. Seeds ventrally eoncavo Tvith no 

 inedian ridge (in Eoxbm-gh's drawing). — A very large specimen from Eangoon has 

 elliptic leaves 9 by 3J in. Wight and Arnott describe the calyx-teeth as twice the 

 length of the ovary, which is not the case. Kurz enumerates 3 varieties: — 1. Hox- 

 iurghii, with glabrous leaves and sessile or Bhorl>-peduncled cymes ; 2. puberula, with 

 •leaves puberulous beneath and larger peduncled cymes; 3. piunila, 1-3 ft., flowers 

 often pale rose, cymes small short more slender. 



§§§ Branches glah-ous. Cymes articulate at the ramifications, corymhiform, 

 rarely hraehiate, 



24. X. coccinea, Zin}2. ; JRoxh. Fl. Ind. i. 375; glabrous, leaves sessile 

 •or subsessile shortly oblong, base rounded or cordate rarely cmieate, tip roundtd 

 ■or apiculate, cymes sessile corymbiform dense-flowered, calyx-teeth minute 

 shorter than the ovary, corolla-tube 1-lf in., lobes broad acute, mouth naked. 

 W. ^ A. Prodr. 427 ; Wight Ic. t. 153 ; Dak. % Gibs. Bomb. Fl. 112 ; Brand. 



Fm: Fl. 275; Kurz For. Fl. ii. 26. I. grandiflora, Br. in Bot. Beg. t.- 154 ; 

 DC. Prodr. iv. 486 ; Wight in JSook. Bot. Misc. iii., Sup23l- 1. 35. I. propinqua, 

 Br. in Wall. Cat. 6119. I. incarnata, DC. I. c. ? I. obovata, Heyne m Both 

 Nov. Sp. 90. I. Bandhuca, Boxb. Hoi-t. Beng. 10; Fl. Ind. i. 376; Wall. Cat. 

 6120 ; DC. I. c. ; Bot. Beg. t. 513 ; Wight Ic. t. 149. Pavetta cocciuea and 

 P. incarnata, Blume Bijd. 950. P. Bandhuca, Miq. Fl. Ind. Bat. ii. 266. — 

 Bheede Sort. Mai. ii, t. 12 ; Burm. Fl. Zeyl. t. 57. 



Cultivated throughout India, a native of the Western Peninsula, in the Concan, 

 &c., Dalsell ^ Gibson. Chittagong, apparently indigenous, J. B. H. §• T. T. Culti- 

 vated in AvA, Maetaban, and Buema, Kiirz. Cbtxon ; common, ascending to 200O 

 ft., Thwaites. 



A branching shrub ; branches strict, rather stout. Leaves 2-4 by 1-2 in., coria- 

 ceous, pale when dry ; nerves 8-10 pair, distinct ; stipules with rigid cusps. Cymes 

 rarely shortly peduncled ; ramifications very short, articulate; bracts and bracteoles 

 subulate ; flowers scarlet, sessile or very shortly petioled. Filaments long and anthers 

 ^hort for the genus. Stigma with short revolute arms. Fruit sometimes fleshy, size 

 of a pea, crowned by the calyx-teeth, Seed very concave ventrally. — ^Eosburgh dis- 

 tinguishes /. Bandhuca from Z coccinea by being more branched, with .stem-clasping 

 obtuse leaves and ovate obtuse corolla-lobes. These characters should be looked to 

 -in India ; they point to intermediates between I. coccinea and striata. He further 

 figures the seed of coccinea as plano-convex. A yellow flowering variety is said to be 

 in cultivation. 



25. I. stricta, Boxb. Hort. Beng, 10 ; Fl. Ind. i. 379 ; glabrous, leaves 

 sessile or subsessile obovate or obovate-oblong obtuse or subacute base cuneate, 

 cymes corymbiform sessile or peduncled, calyx-teeth shorter than the ovary 

 t)btuse or acute, coroUa-tube f-1 in., lobes rounded, mouth naked. DC. Prodr. 

 iv. 486; W. Sf A. Prodr. 427; Wight Ic. t. 184; K-urz For. Fl. ii. 26; Wall. 

 Cat. 6123. I. coccinea, Bot. Mag. 169. I. alba, Ro.ib. II. cc. ; Wight Ic. t. 

 707 ; Wall. Cat. 6122. I. blanda, Ker m Bot. Reg. t. 100; DC. I. c. 487. I. 

 incarnata, Boxb.; D. C. I. c. 486. I. crocata, lAndl. in Bot. Beg. t. 782; DC. 

 I. c. 486. I. rosea. Wall. Cat. 6124; Bot. Mag. t. 2428; not of Wall, in Ro.vb. 

 Fl. Ind. 



Cultivated in various parts of India, but a native of the Moluccas and China, 

 according to Roxburgh. Kurz regards it as indigenous in Eangoon and Upper 

 Tenassekim. 



There is little to distinguish this from 7. coccinea but the smaller corolla-lobes 

 •and form of the leaves. Eoxburgh figures the seeds as plano-convex, a character X 

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