566 
Spec. Cuan. Middling-sized shrub, armed : young shoots hairy > 
leaves oval, hairy beneath: tube of the corolla with a ring of white 
bristles pointing downwards: flowers axillary, crowded.’ 
Chittagong, flowering in the rainy season. 
(7) C. ancustirorium. (Rozb.) 
Ident. Roxb. fl. Ind. I. p. 583.—Dec. pred. IV. p. 479. 
Spec. Cuar. Armed shrub: leaves fascicled on the older 
branches, opposite on the young shoots, lanceolate, tapering : flowers. 
axillary, several together, small, short-peduncled, greenish-yellow s 
atyle the length of the corolla: stigma large,. bifid at the apex. 
Chittagong and Silhet, flowering from March to July. 
(8) C. Neircuerrenss. (R.. W.) 
Ident. Wight’s Icon. vol. ITI. 
Engrave. Wight’s Icon. t. 1064. bis. 
Spec. Cuar. Shrub or small tree, unarmed: branchlets obso- 
letely 4-sided: leaves ovate, bluntly acuminated, membranous, 
somewhat hirsute beneath: peduncles axillary, about the length of 
the petioles, bearing an umbel of 5-7 flowers, furnished with gnbu- 
late bracts: corolla hairy in the throat: stigma capitate: drupe ob- 
ovate, compressed, succulent: flowers white. 
Sispara, on the Neilgherries, flowering nearly all the year. 
GENUS XXIV. IXORA. 
Tetrandria Monogynia. Ser: Syst 
‘Deriv. Avcorruption of Jswara, a Hindoo Deity, to whom the 
flowers are occasionally offered. 
Gen. Cuar. Shrubs or small trees: leaves opposite: stipules 
from a broad base acute or ending in a setaceous simple or bifid 
awn: corymbs terminal, usually trichotomous: calyx-tube ovate; 
limb 4-toothed or 4-partite : corolla hypocrateriform ;. tube slender : 
limb 4-partite, spreading : anthers somewhat sessile in the thrvat or 
on short filaments: style scarcely exserted, 2-cleft at the apex: 
divisions of the stigma diverging or revolute: berry semewhat glo- 
bose, 2-celled: nuts chartaceous, flat or concave on the inner side, 
gibbous on the back, 1-seeded: albumen cartilaginous, solid: em- 
bryo erect, incurved, 
QQ) I. coccinea. (Linn) 
Ident. W. & A. prod. I. p. 427.—Roxb. fi. Ind. I. p..375, 
Syn. I. grandiflora, Dec. prod. IV. p. 486.—I. obovata, Heyne 
in Roth. Nov. Sp. p. 90. 
Engrav. Rheede Mal. IT. t. 12.—Burm. Zeyl. t. 57.—Pluk. t. 
59. £.2.—Bot. Reg. IT. t. 152. 
