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| foot high, furnished with lance-shaped or 

 ; linear leaves, and terminating in one or 

 | many white or yellow flower-heads about 

 l half an inch across. These contain nume- 

 ! rous tubular and perfect florets, enclosed in 

 ; an involucre of many narrow scales which 

 i are slightly bent out at the apex so as to re- 

 1 semble ray florets. From their allies they 



differ in the achenes being seated on afrill- 

 ] ed receptacle, and crowned with a pappus 

 ! of numerous long rough hairs, as well as 



in the nature of the involucre. [A- A. B.] 



IXIOLIRION. The name of a few pretty 

 bulbous amaryllidaceous plants of Asia 

 Minor and Northern Asia. They have tuni- 

 cated bulbs, and simple erect stems with 



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Ixiolirion montana. 

 leafy bracts, smaller upwards, and bearing 

 a few flowers near the top. The leaves are 

 narrow linear, channelled, glaucous, and 

 sheathing at the base : and the flowers are 

 erect long-stalked, blue or violet, with a 

 six-parted funnel-shaped or subrotate peri- : 

 anch having narrow lanceolate divisions, I 

 six erect stamens, and a somewhat top- 

 shaped ovary, with a filiform style and 

 three narrow channelled stigmas. [T. MJ 



IXIOXANTHES. A genus of the flax 

 family, comprising five species which are 

 found in the Malay peninsula and islands, 

 and one in Hong Kong. They are smooth 

 trees or bushes with obovate or elliptical 

 leaves; and numerous small generally 

 green flowers disposed in axillary forked 

 corymbs usually longer than the leaves. 

 The flowers have a calyx of five to six 

 rounded sepals, a like number of rounded 

 petals, ten to twenty long stamens, and an 

 ovary which, when ripe, is a somewhat 

 woody five-celled capsule. [A. A. BJ 



IXODIA. A genus of Compositce, com- 

 prising two erect glutinous herbs of South- 

 east Australia, with slightly-winged stems 

 furnished with linear hyssop-like leaves, 

 I and numerous white flower-heads, disposed 

 in corymbs at the ends of the twigs. They 

 have much the appearance of Achillea, 

 j with this difference, that what gives the 

 i rayed appearance to the heads here is the 



white tips of the involucral scales, while 

 in milfoils it is an outer row of strap- 

 shaped florets. The achenes being desti- 

 tute of pappus, each enveloped by a chaffy 

 scale, distinguishes the genus from its 



j near allies. [A. A. B.] 



IXORA. A genus of Indian and tropical 



! African shrubs, with corymbs of handsome 



j flowers of a scarlet pink or white colour, 

 and frequently having an agreeable fra- 

 grance. The corolla is salver-shaped with a 



| long slender tube, into the throat of which 

 the four or five anthers are inserted by 

 means of very short filaments. The fruit 

 is succulent, crowned by the calyx, con- 

 taining two one-seeded stones. 



j Several of these elegant flowering shrubs 

 are grown in stoves in this country. I. 



• coccinea is used in India by the natives for 

 various medicinal purposes. The name of 

 the genus is supposed to be derived from 

 the Hindoo deity, Iswarra, to whom the 

 beautiful scarlet flowers of these plants 

 are offered in the temples. [M. T. MJ 



JABOROSA. A genus of South Ameri- 

 can herbs, belonging to the Solanacece, and 

 differing from Himeranthus, principally in 

 the funnel-shaped corolla, and the very 

 short filaments of the stamens. [M. T. MJ 



JABUTI. The edible fruit of Psidium 

 dlbidum. 



JACARANDA. A considerable genus of 

 Bignoniacece, natives of tropical America, 

 consisting of trees with opposite abruptly 

 bipinnate leaves, the pinnae themselves 

 imparipinnate. They have bluish flowers 

 in terminal (rarely lateral) panicles. The 

 calyx is five-toothed or five-parted; the 

 corolla tubular at the base, dilated at the- 

 throat with an unequally five-lobed limb ; 

 there are four included didynamous sta- 

 mens with a rudimentary fifth ; and the 

 capsule is roundish, compressed, two- 

 celled, with many flattened winged seeds. 

 Decandolle has divided the genus into two 

 sections : Monolobos, characterised by hav- 

 ing a single-celled anther and abruptly 

 pinnate leaves; and Dilobos, with perfect 

 two-celled anthers and imparipinnate 

 leaves. Some species, especially J.procera, 

 have the character of being useful in sy- 

 philitic affections. [W. CJ 



JACA, or JACK-TREE. Artocarpus inte- 

 grifolia. 



JACEE. (Ft.) Lychnis dioica. — DES 

 PRES. Centaurea Jacea. — DU MON- 

 TAGNE. Centaurea montana. 



JACINTH. Another name for the Hya- 

 cinth. 



JACINTHE. (Fr.) Hyacinthus. — DE 

 SIENNE. Muscari monstrosum. — DES 

 JARDINIERS. — Scilla italica. — DU 

 PEROTJ. Scilla peruviana. — ETOILEE. 

 Scilla amcena. ■ — MONSTRUEUSE. Mus- 

 cari monstrosum. — MUSQUE"E. Muscari 

 moschatum. PANICULEE. Muscari mon- 

 strosum. PETITE. Hyacinthus non scrip- 

 tits. 



