RUBIACEAE 



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IXORA Linnaeus 



IXORA CHINENSIS Lam. Encycl. 3 (1789) 344. 



Ixora stricta Roxb. Hort. Beng. (1814) 10 (type!). 

 Flamma silvarum peregrina Rumph. Herb. Amb. 4: 107, t. 47. 

 Amboina, Ernies, Robinson PL Rumph. Amb. 159, August 9, 1913, from 

 cultivated plants. 



Linnaeus originally reduced this to Pavetta indica Linn., in 

 Stickman Herb. Amb. (1754) 16, Amoen. Acad. 4 (1759) 127, 

 Syst. ed. 10 (1759) 894, Mant. 2 (1771) 331, in which erroneous 

 disposition of it he was followed by Burman f., Murray, Willde- 

 now, and Pritzel. Loureiro, Fl. Cochinch. (1790) 75, discusses 

 it under Ixora coccinea Linn., to which it is allied, but from 

 which it is manifestly distinct. Lamarck cites it in the original 

 description of Ixora chinensis, his actual type being a specimen 

 collected by Sonnerat, supposed to have come from China. It 

 is the whole basis of Ixora stricta Roxb. as originally published 

 in the Hortus Bengalensis * and is undoubtedly the form later 

 described under this name by Roxburgh, Fl. Ind. 1 (1820) 388, 

 ed. 2, 1 (1832) 379, from specimens cultivated in the botanic 

 garden in Calcutta, which were introduced from the Moluccas in 

 1798. Miquel, Fl. Ind. Bat. 2 (1857) 268, placed it under Pavetta 

 stricta Blume, which is a synonym of Ixora stricta Roxb. The 

 species is not a native of Amboina, but according to Rumphius 

 it was introduced from Java about 1675. 



IXORA FULGENS Roxb. Hort. Beng. (1814) 10 (type!). 

 Flamma silvarum Rumph. Herb. Amb. 4: 105, t. 46. 

 Amboina, Soja, Mahija, and Koesoekoesoe sereh, Robinson PL Rumph. 

 Amb. 169, August, 1913, in light forests, altitude 250 to 450 meters, locally 

 known as daun pichapiring. 



Flamma silvarum Rumph., representing a very characteristic 

 species, was originally reduced by Linnaeus to Ixora coccinea 

 Linn., in Stickman Herb. Amb. (1754) 16, Amoen. Acad. 4 

 (1759) 127, Syst. ed. 10 (1759) 893, Sp. PL ed. 2 (1762) 159, a 

 species with which it has little in common, and to which it is not 

 at all closely allied. This disposition of it was accepted by 

 Burman f., Loureiro, Willdenow, and Persoon. Roemer and 

 Schultes, Syst. 3 (1818) 179, erroneously placed it under Ixora 

 incarnata Roxb. Lamarck, Encycl. 3 (1789) 343, placed it under 

 Ixora lanceolata Lam., but the species described is certainly not 

 the same as the Amboina plant. Flamma silvarum is the whole 



* C. B. Robinson in Philip. Journ. Sci. 7 (1912) Bot. 413. 



