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18. IXORA, Linn. 
Calyx-tube campanulate; teeth 4-5, minute, persistent. Corolla 
hypocrateriform, with a cylindrical tube and 4-5 spreading lobes, con- 
torted and imbricated in bud. Stamens 4-5, inserted in the tube ; 
filaments none or very short. Ovary 2-celled ; style filiform, with two 
branches. Fruit small, globose, coriaceous, indehiscent, the two seeds 
in bony pyrenes. — Trees or shrubs, with large opposite entire leaves 
and often showy abundant flowers in terminal corymbs. Distrib. 
Round the world in the tropics, principally in the Old World. 
Species 100. 
Flowers small, naked, tetramerous 1. I. pudica. 
Flowers large, silky, pentamerous 2. I. sericea. 
1. I. pudica, Baker. An erect shrub, 8-12 feet high, glabrous in 
all its parts, with rather stout terete branches. Leaves short-petioled, 
oblong, subcoriaeeous, acute, cuneate at the base, 5-6 in. long, 2-3 in. 
broad, with many wide-spreading distinct main veins ; stipules deltoid- 
cuspidate, caducous. Flowers in crowded terminal corymbs 2-3 in. 
broad, with straight naked branches ; pedicels erect, in. l° n g* 
Calyx naked, in. with 4 minute deltoid teeth. Corolla \ in. long, 
white, fragrant; the lanceolate reflexing lobes as long as the tube. 
Anthers strap-shaped, in. long, with a short filament. Drupe the 
size of a pea, naked, with two large pyrenes, channelled down the face 
and rounded on the back as in Coffea. 
Seychelles ; in the woods of Mahe, at about 600 feet above sea-level. Horne , 
292 ! 514 ! Wright , 97 ! Leaf, general habit, inflorescence and fruit of the Malayan 
I. coriacea, R. Br., from which it differs in leaf-veining, and by its smaller flowers. 
Endemic. 
2. I. sericea, Baker. A small tree, glabrous beyond the inflores- 
cence, with wide-spreading branches. Leaves short-petioled, oblong, 
deltoid at both ends, 4-6 in. long, 2-2 J in. broad at the middle, very 
glossy above, very rigid in texture, and minutely beautifully reticulato- 
venose on both sides ; stipules deltoid, caducous. Flowers in terminal 
corymbs \ foot or more broad, with flattened almost winged stout as- 
cending peduncles; pedicels-^- 1 in. long, silky upwards. Calyx £ in. 
long, with a campanulate grey -silky tube, and 5 small erect deltoid teeth. 
Corolla-tube lf-lf in. long, densely grey-silky on the outside ; lobes 5, 
lanceolate, acute, silky on the back, cream-coloured on the face, spotted 
with black at the base. Anthers and emarginate stigma just exserted 
from the tube. Drupe small, globose, silky, with 2 pyrenes. 
Seychelles, in Mahe and Silhouette, only on the mountains above 1800 feet, asso- 
ciated always with Nepenthes , Horne , 510 ! Endemic. 
