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IXORA. blanda, 
Roxburgh’s Ivora. 
TETRANDRIA MONOGYNIA, 
Nat, ord. Rusiacrm. Jussieu gen. 196. : ce ok 
_ Dit. VIL Fractus monocarpus bilocularis dispermus, Folia oppo- 
sita. 
IXORA. Cal. 1-phyllus, superus, minimus, 4-fidus. Cor. re- 
gularis, tubo longo gracili limbo obtusé quadripartito. Anth. ad faucem 
subsessiles exserta, limbi laciniis alterne. Bacca 2-loc. loculis disper- 
mis, (rectitis:1-spermis monente D°. Brown.)  Frutice ; flores termi- 
nales corymbosi aut conferti. Jussieu |. c. 203. 
I. Blanda, foliis ovali-v. ovato-lanceolatis, cyma trichotomo-decomposita 
contracta ; numerosa, compacta, 7 ete; 
Tze alba. Ee ere ined, cum fig. pict. et exempl. sicc. in mus. 
anks.; (nec atiorum.) : ; v 
Frutex erectus, glaber, ramosus, cortice fusco. Folia subundulata, ner- 
vosa, 3-4-uncialia : stipule interfoliacee, acumine subulato-elon ato. Cyma 
terminalis, bracteolata, stricta, convexa, alba, pedunculis rubentibus. Flores 
tnodori ; tubus strictus, aliquoties' longior limbo, laciniz elliptice, denud res 
curvate. Stylus emicans tubo ferme ad longitudinem limbt. Stig. 2. 
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Txora is a branch of the Rubiacee or Madder-tribe 
of Jussieu, one of the more interesting natural divi- 
sions. Within it, besides the Madder, we find the Coffee- 
tree, the Cincnona that yields the medicinal bark, the 
Garventa florida or Cape-Jasmine, the Carrspxa or Lily- 
Thorn, and a chain of species connecting, thro’ almost in- 
sensible transitions, the gigantic-flowered Portranpra, with 
a nearly microscopic-flowered Gatium. A verticillate foli- 
age is said to mark its herbaceous members among all dico- 
tyledonous yegetables, an opposite one connected by sheaths 
or stipules, the shrubby and arboreous. But the characters 
selected from the flower and fruit, as applied by Jussieu, are 
now found no longer to define this mass, which has been 
divided by Professor Decandolle into four orders ; of these, 
that of the Coffeacee comprises Ixora,. the fruit of which 
Mr. Brown has found to have two single-seeded loculaments, 
not two double-seeded ones, attributed to it by his pre- 
decessors. ‘The same eminently accurate observer also tells 
us, that he has found the above habit in the foliage, instead. 
of exclusively marking the arborescent Rubiacee, to blend 
