INDIAN FOREST RECORDS. 
Vol. VII 1919 Part IV 
1X0RA BUTTERWICKII, Hole 
BT 
R. S. HOLE, C.I.E., F.C.H., F.L.S., F.E.S., 
Botanist, Forest Research Institute, Dehra Dun. 
Introduction. 
I N September 1917, Mr. A. J. S. Butterwick, Extra-Assistant Con¬ 
servator of Forests, sent specimens of an Ixora to Dehra Dun for 
identification which could not be matched there and which appeared to 
belong to a new species. Specimens of it were accordingly sent to Kew 
for comparison with the material there. In his reply Sir David Prain 
wrote that the specimens belonged to “ an entirely new species of Ixora 
which may safely be described.” 
Description. 
Ixora Butterwickii, Hole (Indian Forester XLV, p. 15, January 
1919). Species allied to 7. spectabilis, Wall, and 7. pendula, Jack'; 
from the former it differs in the larger size and shape of the leaves, 
more numerous lateral nerves and wider panicle ; from the latter it 
differs in the shorter corolla tube, longer anthers and wider panicle. 
Large evergreen shrub attaining a height of 11 feet and basal girth 
of 9 inches. 
Young shoots glabrous (except the branchlets of the panicle), elliptic 
or quadrangular. 
Stipules interpetiolar, broadly ovate, 0-1 in .—0-25 in. long (excluding 
the subulate apex), dorsally keeled above, the keel being produced as a 
subulate cusp equal in length to the stipule. The margins of the stipules 
at the base are more or less produced intrapetiolarly and are sometimes 
connate, thus forming a complete sheath around the stem. 
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