IXORA JAVANICA. 
(Java I.iora,) 
Class. 
TETRANDRIA. 
Order. 
MONOGYNIA. 
Natural Order. 
CINCHONACEiE. 
Generic Charactkr. —Calyx with an ovate tube ; 
limb small, four-toothed. Corolla monopetalous, 
salver-shaped, with a slender tube, and a four-parted 
spreading limb. Stamens four, slightly exserted. Style 
equal in lenth to the tube of the corolla, or sometimes 
a little longer, two- parted at the point ; lobes of the 
stigma spreading or revolute. Ovary inferior, two- 
celled. Fruit a drupaceous berry, crowned with the 
permanent calyx, two celled, each cell containing one 
or two seeds. 
Specific Character. — Plant an evergeen spread- 
ing shrub, growing from three to four feet high. 
Leaves opposite, on short petioles, ovate-oblong, acu- 
minate, smooth. Stipules broad at the base, acute, 
sometimes awned. Flowers of a rich orange- vermilion, 
in terminal corymbs ; corymbs on long peduncles, 
trichotomous, divaricate. Calyx with the four seg- 
ments of the limb obtuse. Corolla with the four seg- 
ments of the limb oval and rounded. Stamens alternate 
with the segments of the corolla. 
Synonyme.— Pavetta Javanica Blume. 
This very beautiful species bears some resemblance to Ixora crocata, but is much 
superior to it both in flower and habit. It is a native of Java, as its specific name 
indicates, where it grows in the woods on the mountain sides, and forms a broad- 
spreading bush truly beautiful to behold. 
It has been lately introduced by Messrs. Veitch and Son, of Exeter, through 
their collector. A fine specimen was shown by the above gentlemen at Chiswick, in 
July last, when our drawing was permitted to be made, and from which we judge 
that it is a very free growing kind ; and being a first-class plant, it must be regarded 
as a valuable acquisition to our stoves. 
Nothing peculiar is required in the successful treatment of this fine plant ; pre- 
cisely the same system should be pursued as recommended for I. Bandhuca, Mag. 
Bot., Vol. ii., t. 265 ; Vol. iii., t. 75 ; and pages 40 and 179 of the present volume, 
where a system of growing them to great perfection is given in detail. 
Iswara is the name of a Malabar idol, to which were offered the flowers of some 
of the species. 
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