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itself so intimately, and by ‘such near transitions, with the 
foliage of the Apocynee, that he is yet at a loss to discri- 
minate the tribes in that respect. 
Rubiaceé as an ordinal designation is defective, being 
derived from a genus at one of the extremes of the whole; 
and whose image, altho’ familiar in these climates, is less 
obviously transfused thro’ the tribe than that of almost any 
other in it. | 
The present species had been considered by Dr. Rox- 
burgh as Ixora alba, one that was first instituted by Lin- 
neus in the Ilora Zeylanica from a sample in Hermann’s 
Herbarium. But a reference to the archetype now in. the 
possession of Sir Joseph Banks, showed that plant to be of 
a distinct species from blanda. In alba the foliage is elliptic 
with an abrupt point, the cyme more simple and fewer 
flowered than here, the corolla nearly three times larger, 
the seements lanceolate and pointed. The synonym sub- 
sequently adjected from the Hortus Malabaricus, we sus- 
pect to belong to neither. 
Dr. Roxburgh found the plant in the gardens of Bengal. 
He speaks of it as a handsome upright branching shrub,’ 
very like Ixora coccinea; with leaves from 2 to 4 inches. 
long, slightly undulated, upper ones sessile, lower petioled.: 
Cyme white-flowered, with red stalks, decompounded, but 
compact, numerous, close, more so in the specimens ga- 
thered in India than in the present. Stipules terminated by 
a long subulale point. Segments of the corolla elli ptic, re- 
curved. 
Introduced some few years back from India. Requires 
to be kept in the hothouse. 
The drawing was made last November at the nursery of 
G . 
Messrs. Lee and Kennedy, at Hammersmith, the only place 
in which we have seen It. 
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