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terminal, contracted, many-flowered, branches and tube of the calyx 
densely hairy: scariose bracts and lobes of the calyx glabrous: 
calycine-lobes 4, subulate, pointed: corolla glabrous, with a long 
on a tube and 4 obtuse reflexed segments : style-exserted : stigma 
2-lobed. 
Calicut, in Malabar, flowering in March. 
(16) I. sugsessinis... ( Wall.) 
Ident. Wall. Cat, No. 6139.—Don’s Mill. III, p. 572, 
Spec. Cuar. Shrub: leaves oblong, tapering at both ends, pe- 
tioled, glabrous :: corymbs almost sessile, dense : calycine-lobes 
subulate: lobes of the corolla acute: stigma exserted.: stipules 
subulate at the apex.:: flowers apparently white. 
Khasia mountains. 
(27) L.oxyrnyiia. ( Wall!) 
Hdent. Wall. Cat. No. 6159.—Don’s Mill. ITI. p. 572. 
Srec. CHar. Shrub: Jeaves elliptic-lanceolate, long-acuminat- 
ed, glabrous, short-petioled :. stipules subulate at the apex: caly-~ 
cine-lobes subulate : stigma exserted: flowers apparently white. 
Khasia mountains. 
GENUS XXV. PAVETTA. 
d Tetrandria: NMonogynia. Sez: Syst: 
) 
Deriv. The Malabar name latinized. 
Gen. Car. Shrubs: leaves.opposite: stipules with a: subulate 
point : tube of the calyx ovate: limb 4-toothed: corolla -hypocra- 
teriform ; tube cylindrical or clavate ; limb:4-partite ; lobes spread- 
ing, more or less unequal : anthers somewhat sessile in the throat. of 
the corolla: style much exserted and longer than the corolla, en- 
tire, clavate: stigma undivided : berry drupaceous, crowned with 
the limb of the calyx, globose, 2-celled: cells 1-seeded : albumen 
-eartilaginous, solid : embryo dorsal, erect, incurved.. 
(1) P.Invica. (Linn) 
Ident. W. & A. prod. I. p. 431.—Dee. prod, IV. p..490. 
Syn. P. alba, Vahl.—Ixora paniculata, Lam.—I..pavetta, Road. 
ft. Ind I. p. 386, 
Engrav. Wight’s Icon, t. 148.—Rheede Mal. V. t. 10.—Bot. 
Reg. ITI. t. 198.—Pluk. t. 367. f. 5. 
Spec. Cuar. Shrub: leaves oval-oblong, acuminated, tapering 
at the base, petioled, upper surface glabrous and shining : stipules 
broad, upper ones often concrete at the base: corymbs terminal and 
from the upper axils: calyeine-teeth minute: lobes of the corolla 
