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5>road, nearly or quite reffile, elliptical, fliglitly pointed. 

 ■Stipuhi with a very broad fliort bale, and fhort flender point. 

 Corymb about two-thirds the length of the leaves, denfe, 

 level-topped, many-flowered. Tub: of the flowers above an 

 inch long, very (lender ; limb fmall, its fegments fliaped 

 much like I._/?(;m;H.^, but rather lefs. Style projecting above 

 half their length. By the name we prefume the flowers are 

 flefh-coloured. In a dried ftate their tube looks reddifh, the 

 lihib pale. 



5. I. arborca. Roxb. MSS. (I. Pavetta ; Andr. Repbf. 

 t. 78.) — Leaves eUiptic-oblong, on (hort flalks. Segments of 

 the corolla linear, obtufe, reflexed, one-third the length of 

 the tube. Corymb denfe, half as long as the leaves.— Native 

 of the Eaft Indies. It flowered in the dow.iger lady de 

 Clifford's Hove in the autumn of 1 799, as ^Ir. Andrews 

 raenlions, but his name is altogether founded in error. The 

 haves are three or four inches long, and above one broad, 

 coriaceous, widely fpreading, on ihort thick ftalks ; their 

 bafe flightly heart-rtiaped. Floivsrs innumerable, dirty- 

 white, fmall, fragrant, in very denfe corymbs, whoie ftalks 

 are a little downy ; their tube is fcarccly half an inch long, 

 fegments of the limb one-third as much, linear-oblong, re- 

 curved or reflexed, as are alfo the anthers. The Jlyle projefts 

 in fome degree ; ihejli^ma is large and green, cloven, but 

 not fpreading. 



6. I. barbata. Roxb. MSS. — Leaves elliptic-oblong, point- 

 ed, ftalkcd. Segments of the ccr^lla obovate, obtufe, re- 

 flexed, denfely bearded at their bafe. Corymb fpreading, 

 equal to tiie leaves. — Brought by lord vifcount Valentia 

 from the Eaft Indies. The leaves are five or fix inches long, 

 two or more in breadth, with blunt points. Footjlalhs half an 

 inch long. Corymbs three at the end of the branch, equal, 

 many-flowered, loofe and fpreading, about as long as the 

 leaves, and ver^- broad. Tube of the flowers an inch and a 

 quarter in length, flender at the bafe, but rather fwelling up- 

 wards ; itwb reflexed, its fegment ^th of an inch long, obo- 

 vate, obtufe, twifted in tlie bud, revolute when dry, denfely 

 bearded at their bafe only, about the orifice of the tube, 

 with longiih trhite hairs. The colour of tXxe Jloiuers feems 

 to be reddilh. 



7. I. vndulata. Roxb. MSS. — Leaves ovate, pointed, 

 ftalked. Segments of the corolla oblong, reflexed, fmooth, 

 half as long as the tube. Corymbs numerous, denfe, pani- 

 cled. — For this alfo we are obliged to lord Valentia, who 

 received it, with the two laft, from Dr. Roxburgh. The 

 lea-ves, about four or five inches long, are of a broad ovate 

 figure, tapering to a point ; their edges wavy. Footjlalh 

 above half an inch lo:ijT. P<in/ci-.f terminal, longer than the 

 leaves, repeatedly forked, fpreading, each branch ternfi- 

 nating in a denfe many-flowered corymb. The tube is about 

 half an inch long, not very flender, reddifh ; limb undjlumeits 

 half that length, reflexed. Style projecting to the extent of 

 the limb. 



8. I. lax't/lora. — Leaves elliptic-oblong. Segments of the 

 corolla fpreading, convex, bearded on their upper furface. 

 Panicle corymbofe, lax, widely fpreading, longer than the 

 leaves. Gathered at Sierra Leone, by Dr. Adam Afze- 

 lius, to whom we are obliged for a fpecimen, and the pub- 

 lication of whofe rich difcoveries is much to be defired, 

 though he himfelf has hitherto been unable to attain that 

 object. We wifh to fccure his fame, not to encroach upon 

 it. The leaves of this fpecie.s are two or three inches long, 

 and rather above an inch wide, all fomewhat pointed j the 

 uppermoft rounded at the bafe, and quite feffile ; the reft 

 tapering down into a winged foot-ftalk. Si'ipulas with fliort 

 points. Panicles terminal, folitary, ftalkcd, nearly twice as 

 long as the leaves, many-flowered, repeatedly branched and 



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divaricated, (lender and las. Calyx tubular, with very fliort 

 rounded teeth. Tube of the corolla an inch long, very 

 flender, flightly fwelling upwards ; fegments ©f the limb 

 one-third as long, obovate with a fmall recurved point, 

 their edges reflexed, their dific hairy half way along the 

 middle from the bafe. Stamens very fliort. Style projecting 

 almoft the length of the limb, with long, nearly linear, 

 fligmas. Wcliave no account of the colour of the Jloivers. 

 In the dried fpecimen they are dark brown, with a purphfli 

 tinge. 

 _ g. I. parviflora. Vahl. Symb. v. 3. 1 1. 1. y2. Ait. Hort. 

 Kew. ed. 2. v. i. 244. — Leaves nearly fcfiile, lanceolate^ 

 oblong. Corymbs d^nfe, panicled. Segments of the co- 

 rolla elliptical, reflexed, one-fourth the length of the tube 



Native of the Eaft Indies. We have a fpecimen fent by 

 Koenig to Linnxus, which was sever defcribed, but we have 

 no doubt of its being Vahl'i plant. The leaves in our's ai-c 

 two or three inches long, or more, lanceolate inclining to 

 obovate, coriaceous, reticulated with veins. Footjlalh thick 

 and very fliort. Stipuhis broad and fhort, with a rigid 

 ftraight point. Panicle ratlier longer than the leaves, erect, 

 ftraight, branched from the bottom ; the br.nnches downy, 

 each bearing a denfe corymb of red Jlowers, whofe tube is 

 about half an inch long, not very flender, and whofe limb is 

 fcarcely one-fourth that length, its fegments elliptical, and 

 fmooth. 



10. I. alba. Linn. Sp. PI. ed. i. 244. (Bem-fchetti ; 

 Rhecde Hort. Mai. v. 2. 19. t. 14.) — Leaves elliptic-lanceo- 

 late, pointed, ftalked. Panicle corymbofe, ftalkcd, of few 

 flowers. Segments of the corolla ovato-lanceolate, acute, 

 about half as long as the t\ibe. — Native of the Eaft Indies. 

 This fpecies ftands on the authority of the Hc/rt.is Malaba- 

 rictis, whence Linnxus adopted it, for there is no fpecimen 

 in his herbarium, and the fynonym of Plukenet, t. 109. f. 2, 

 furely belongs to our firft fpecies of all. Miller is faid iu 

 Hort. Kew. to have cultivated /. alba before 176S, but we 

 have never been able to fatisfy ourfelvcs concerning this 

 fpecies in any garden. A fpecimen in fruit from profeflbi- 

 David Van Royen, of what he had from Thunberg under 

 this name, agrees tolerably with Rheede's figure, though 

 the fruit being globofe, or rather depreffed, not elliptical, 

 is an exception, neither is our faid fruit didymous, like 

 Gartner's t. 95. Rheede contrails his plants with the true 

 /. coccinea, his Schetti, t. 15, juftly faying that the leaves arc 

 rather longer, more pointed at the end, and contradted at 

 the bafe. The fo'icers are white or yellowifh, with a reddifli 

 tube. Stamens longifh and flender. Styk promipicnt. Fruit 

 more oblong than round, pale green or yellowifh. 



11. I. americana. Linn. Am. Acad. v. y. 393 ; exclud- 

 ing the fynonym of Plumier. Sp. PI. ed. 2. 160 ; exclud- 

 ing the fyn. of Browne. (Petefia, N" I ; Brown. Jam. 143. 

 t. 2. f. 3.) — Leaves elliptical, pointed at each end, on long 

 downy footftalks. Panicles axillary, downy ; their branches 

 cymofe. — Gathered by Dr. P. Browne near the waterfall is 

 Mammee river in Jamaica. His own fpecimen is before us, 

 fhewing how much Linnieus has confufed the hiftory of tliis 

 plant, by a mifquotation of fynonyms that belong to Ccfia 

 eccidenlalis, hence leading Lamarck to fuppofe thcfe two 

 very diftinft (hrubs might be one and the fame. We are not 

 however by any means of opinion that the prefent is a real 

 Ixora, but till its fruit be better known, the queftion cannot 

 be decided. Dr. Swartz appears not to have touched upon 

 it. The leavfs grow by threes, on ftalks about an inch and 

 half long, half their own length. 'Lliejlazfer/ are very fniall, 

 Ihort, thick, and downy, truly cymolc, at the ends of long 

 forked panicles. 



12. I? muliifora. Swartz. Ind. Occ. v. 1. 240. Willd. 



4? n. b. 



