150 Lxxv. EUBiACEJi. (J. D. Hooker.) [Pavetta. 



longer, and ovules visually attached to a prominent placenta, — ^Distbib. Species 

 aJrout 60, in the tropics of the Old World. 



Fdvettd, as- here limited, differs from Ixora in the usually memhranoiis more or 

 less sheathing stipulary bracts at the lower cjtoie branches, and the style twice as 

 long as the corolla-tube with a slender entire rarely notched stigma, often more 

 slendK'r than the style itself. Various pentamerolis species pla'c^' in Pavetta by 

 autfibrs are in this work referiBd to Webera, with which they agree in habit, and the 

 short hairy style with a long fusiform grooved stigma. 



* Calyx-teeth much shorter than the ovary. 



1. P. indica, lAnn. ; DC. Prodr. iv. 490 ; glahrous puhescent or tomen- 

 to&e, leaves meinhranous elliptic eUiptic-lariceolate obovate or' oblanceolate 

 rairfely otbicular obtuse acute acuminate or caudate, cymes terminal sessile 

 corymbifbrm, flowers pedicelled, calyx truncate or with very short triangular 

 teeth, corolla-tube J-| in. 



Throughout India from the Western Himalaya in Gaewhai. (var. toynentosa), 

 ascending to 4000 ft., to Bhotan and Birma, and southwards to Ceyi.on, Maiacca, 

 and Penang. — Disteib. Malay Archipelago, S. China, N. Australia. 



One of the most common and variable Indian small trees or bushes. Leaves pale 

 or greenish when dry, 3-9 by |-3 in., a foot long in some Khasian specimens ; petiole 

 ^1^ in. stipules short, broad. Cymes 1-5 in. diam., rounded, or reduced to few 

 scattered flowers ; bracts broad, membranous, lower cupular ; flowers on slender 

 pedicels, white, rather fragrant. Corolla-tube twice or thrice as long as the oblong 

 lobes. Stigma very slender, fusiform. Berry size of a pea, 2-seeded. — Flowers occa- 

 sionally 5-merous (Wight & Arnott). 



Vak. 1 . indica proper ; leaves glabrous beneath or nearly so, cymes glabrate, 

 corella glabrous. P. indica, Linn. ; Wall. Cat. 6175, excl. F.; TV. ^ A. Prodr. 431 ; 

 Wight Ic. t. 148 ; TliW. Ennm. 155 ; Dalz. ^ Gibs. Somb. Fl. 11-2 ; Brandis For. Fl. 

 275. P. Finlaysoniana, Wall. Cat. 6177, and P. graciliflora, 6178. P. alba, VaH 

 Symb. in. 11. P. petiolaris. Wall. Cat. 6186. Ixora paniculata, LamJc. Diet. iii. 344. 

 I. Pavetta, Roxb. Fl. Ind. i. 385; Kurz For. Fl. ii. 18; Rheede HoH. Mai. xix. t. 10. 

 Thwaites discriminates two varieties : — 1. With few-flowered cymes, slender pedicels, 

 and narrow lanceolate leaves; 2. With puberulous cymes and leaves pubescent 

 beneath : both are found in Continental India, with many more founded on as slight 

 characters. A third Ceylon one, montana, I have retained as distinct. 



Var. 2. polyantha; Wall Cat. 6176 (sp.); cymes pubescent, flowers densely 

 crowded. P. indica. Wall. Cat. 6175 F.; Bot. Reg. t. 198. P. Eothiana, DC. Prodr. 

 iv. 491 ; W. ^ A. Prodr. 431. P. viUosa, Heyne in Both Nov. ^. 88, not of Vahl. 

 Ixora tomentosa, var. glabrescens, Karz For. Fl. ii. 19. 



Vae. 3. tomentosa, Koxb. in Smith Cyclop, (sp.) ; leaves glabrous or softly or 

 harshly puberulous above, beneath and the cymes pubescent tomentose or softly 

 villous. I. tomentosa, JDC. Prodr. iv. 490 ; Heyne in Roth Nov. Sp. 89 ; W. ^ A. 

 Prodr. 431 ; ? Tkw. Emm. 156 ; Brand. For. Fl. 275 ; Wall. Cat. 6173. P.Brunonis, 

 Wight Ic. t. 1066. P. velutin«, mollis, and eanescens, Wall. Cat. 6174, 6179, 6181. 

 Ixora tomentosa, Roxb. Hort. Beng. 11 ; Fl. Ind. j. 386 ;, Wight Ic. t. 186 ; Kurs Far. 

 Fl. ii. 19. — As common and widely spread as var. 1, but less variable in form of 

 leaf. 



Vae. 4. montana, Thw. mss. ; quite glabrous, leaves 2-3 in. coriaceous narrowly 

 elliptic-oblong, tip rounded, corolla-tube \ in., style stout, stigma clavate. — Ceylon 

 common, alt. 3-4000 ft., Thwaites. 



Vae. 5. minor; quite glabrous, leaves small (2-4 in.) narrowly obovate or 

 elliptic-lanceolate obtuse or acute, cymes terminal sessile corymbiform, calyx-teeth 

 subulate acute, corolla ^\ in., stigma subclavate. — Shevagherry hills, Wight (Kew 

 Distrib. 1483). — Looks different from P. indica in the smaller size of all its parts, 

 acute calyx-teeth, and rather more clavate stigma. 



2. P. subcapitata, Hooh. f. ; leaves elliptic-lanceolate caudate-acumi- 

 "nate finely pubescent beneath, cymes terminal sessile capitate many-flowered. 



