IXORA JAVANICA. 
(Java Ixora.) 
Class. Order. 
TETRANDRIA. MONOGYNIA. 
Natural Order. 
CINCHONACE M. 
\ Generic Character, — Calyx with an ovate tube ; 
imb small, four-toothed. Corolla monopetalous, 
salver-shaped, with a slender tube, and a four-parted 
spreading limb. Stamens four, slightly exserted. Style 
3qual 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 
>r 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., Yol. 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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