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Cuba and Mexico. Specimens may be seen in Mrs. M. E. Foster's 
premises, in the grounds of the Central Grammar School, and else- 
where. It resembles a small Ixora with small rugose leaves, the 
flowers are more of an orange-red. Gardenia florida L., the fragrant 
white Gardenia, is commonly cultivated. The flowers are usually 
double. It is a native of China and Japan, but is now widely 
planted. A little over a year ago the writer introduced a few 
plants of the exceedingly handsome Mussaenda erythrophylla Schum. 
et Thon. from Singapore. It is a native of the Congo and the West 
Coast of Africa, and is considered one of the finest ornamental 
plants. It is in flower practically all the year round, and is con- 
spicuous on account of the large, ovate bracts, which are of a deep 
carmine red. It is easily grown from cuttings. 
Cinchona succirubra R. et P., the Quinine Tree, a native of Peru, 
and Ecuador where it grows wild on the slopes of Mt. Chimborazo, 
has been planted on Maui, where a few trees may still be seen near 
Makawao village. 
Ixora macrothyrsa Theijsm. et Binn. 
Ixora. 
Plate LXXIX. 
This exceedingly handsome species is a large glabrous shrub with 
leaves nearly a foot long, oblong-linear in outline. The flowering 
cluster is very large, often eight inches across, bearing many deep 
red flowers with lanceolate obtuse lobes. It is a native of Malay, 
but now one of the most commonly cultivated species. It is easily 
grown from cuttings. In Honolulu it can be found in practically 
every yard and is also sold by florists. 
Ixora coccinea Linn, is another species commonly cultivated in 
Honolulu. It is a shrub with sessile or subsessile cordate leaves, 
and corymbiform, densely flowered cymes. The corolla is scarlet. 
It is a native of the Malay Peninsula and Ceylon. It flowers through- 
out the year. 
Hybrids of Ixora macrothyrsa are also in cultivation, besides one 
or two species of Pavetta. 
