424 BUBIACE^, [Pavetta 



branches ; lower bracts stipuliform, upper and bracteoles minute or 



obsolete. Flowers many, small, in sub -globose clusters, sessile or 



^ pedicelled, white or pink, fragrant. Calyx-teeth very short, obtuse 



or sub-acute. Gorolla-tvhe ^ in. long, without hairs in the mouth. 



hairy. Berry k in. indiam., didymoua- 



In the Bahraich district of N. Oudh (Duthie's collector). Flowers 

 during the hot and rainy seasons. DisTRiB. Bengal, Chittagong, 

 Cent. Prov., Bombay, S. India, and Ceylon ; also in Burma and 

 the Nicobar Islands. The green branches are often used for 

 torches. 



17. PAVETTA. Liun. ; Fl. Brit. Ind. iii, 149. 



Characters of Ixora, but stipular bracts membranous, leaves 

 visually more membranous, stipijles connate into a sheath, style much 

 longer, and ovules usually attached to a prominent placenta, — 

 ^Species about 70, in the tropics of the Old World. 



P. indica, Linn. 8p. PI. 110 i W. ^A. Prod. 431; Brand. For. Fl. 275; 

 F. B.I. iii, 150; Watt E. D. ; Gamble Man. Ind. Timh. 421; CooTce 

 Fl. Bomb, i, 612 ; Ixora Pavetta, Boxh. Fl. Ind. i, 385. 



A glabrous shrub up to 4 ft. in height. Leaves shortly pefcioled, 3-9 

 in. long, lanceolate elliptic oblong or obovate, obtuse acute or 

 acuminate, tapering to the base, membranous, glabrous on both 

 surfaces j main lateral nerves 8-10 pair. Flowers white, fragrant, on 

 slender pedicels, arranged in terminal sessile corymbose cymes ; bracts 

 broad, membranous, the lower cupular. Calyx-lobes very short, tri- 

 angular, acute, reflexed at their tips. Corolla-tube twice or thrice aa 

 long as the linear-oblong sub-acute lobes. Stigma slender, fusiform, 

 hairy. 



Agra diBtrictl(Munro), Bundelkhand (Duthie). Distbib. Throughout 

 the greater part of India from Sikkim and Bengal to S. India and 

 Ceylon ; also in Burma, the Andamans, and the Malay Peninsula, 

 extending to China and N. Australia. 



Var. tomentosa, Hookf. in F. B. I. I.e. ; Kanjildl For. Fl. Sch. Circ. 206; 

 GooTce Fl. Bomb, i, 613. P. tomentosa, Roxb. ex Smith in Bees Cyclop. ; 

 W. ^ A. Prod. 431; Boyle III. 238 ; Brand. For. FL. 275. Ixora tomentosa, 

 Boxb.; Fl. Ind. i, 386. — Vern. Angdri (Dehva.'Dn.n). Young branches 

 leaves and inflorescence tomentose. Flowers ^white, arranged in 

 3-chotomous panicles. 



Dehra Dun and Siwalik range, usually in damp ground. Flowers during 

 April and May. Distbib. Outer ranges of Himalaya up to 4,000 ft. 

 in Garhwal and Kumaon and eastward to Bhutan ; also in Assam, 

 Bengal, Cent, and S. India, Burma, and Malay Peninsula. 



