IxoEA.] BUBIACE^. 423t 



the base and back. Dish annular. Ovary 2 -celled ; style short, 

 included, its branches long erect and hispid ; ovules 6-10 in each 

 cell, pendulous from the apex. Berry ovoid or globose. Seeds 

 pendulous, imbricated, compressed and angled, testa thick, fibrous and 

 plaited ; embrjo small. — A single species. 



H. stricta, W. ^ A, Prod. 899; Brand. For. Fl. 274; F. B. I. Hi. 121; 

 Watt E. D.; Gamb. Man. Ind. Timb.417. Eandia stricta, lioxh.; Fl. Ind. 

 *, 526, 



An evergreen shruh or small tree, 5-10 ft. high, branching from the base ; 

 branchlets decussate. Leaves 3-9 in. long, ovate lanceolate or linear- 

 lanceolate, long anuminate, entire, coriaceous, shining, glabrous, or 

 pubescent on the nerves beneath, brown when dry ; petiole 5-3 in. ; 

 stipules triangular, persistent. Flowers ^ in. long, white ; bracts 

 2-3. Style short ; stigma large, hairy. Berry size of a pea. 



Forest tracts of N. Oudh in damp shady places (R. Thompson, 

 Duthie's collector). Flowers in April, JJistrib. Outer Himalaya up 

 to ijOOO ft. from Kumaon eastwards to the Khasia Hills and Burma 

 common in E. Bengal ; found also in China, 



16. IXORA, Linn. ; Fl. Brit. Ind. iii, 137. 



Shrubs or small trees ; branches terete. Leaves opposite,, 

 rarely in threes ; stipules interpetiolar. Flowers in terminal 

 trichotomously branched often corymbiform cymes, 2Tbracteolate, 

 very rarely 5-merous. Calyx-tube ovoid ; limb 4-toothed, persis- 

 tent. Corolla-tuhe long, very slender ; lobes 4, spreading, twisted in 

 bud. Stamens 4, on the mouth of the corolla ; Jllaments short or ; 

 anther slender, tip often muoronate, base 2-fid. Ovary 2-celled ; 

 style filiform, exserted, never twice as long as the corolla tube ; 

 5^^^w^a slender, fusiform; branches 2, rarely persistently connate; 

 ovules solitary, peltately attached to the septum in each cell. Fruit 

 globose or didymous with 2 plano-convex or ventrally concave 

 coriaceous pyrenes. Seeds peltate, testa membranous, albumen 

 horny. — Species about 100, in Trop. Asia and Africa, and a few 

 in America. 



I. parviflora, VaU Symh. iii, 11, t. 52; Boxh. Fl. Ind. i, 883; W. ^ A. 

 Prod. 429; Brand. For. Fl. 275; F. B. I. Hi, 142; Watt E. D, ; Gamble 

 Man.Ind.Timb. 421; Cooke Fl. Bomb, i, 6ii.--(The Torch-tree.) 



A small glabrous evergreen tree. Leaves sub-sessile, 3-6 in. long, 

 oblong or elliptic, obtuse, rounded or cordate at the base, very coria- 

 cious and shining ; petiole very stout ; stipules shortly cuspidate. 

 Cymes terminal, sessile, 2-6 in. long, with 3-5 pair of short decussate 



