107. 
BOUVARDIA' triphylla. 
Vhree-leaved Bouvardia. 
- TRTRANDRIA MONOGYNTIA. 
Nat. ord. Ropiacum. Jussieu gen. 196. : : 
_ BOUVARDIA.. Cal. (superus) 4-phyllus, dentibus quibusdam: 
interjectis. Cor. tubulosa, Anthere incluse. Caps. bipartibilis, poly= 
sperma, Sem. marginata. Hort. Kew. ed. 2. 1. 245. 
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B. triphylla. Salish. paradis. 88. . 
Bouvardia triphylla. Zort. Kew. ed. 2. 1. 245. 
Houstonia coccinea. Andrews’s reposit. 106. Per'soon syn. 1. 125. 
Ixora americana. Jacq. hort. schenbr. 3. 4. t. 2573; (nec Linnei.) 
Ixora ternifolia, Cavanill. ic. 4.3. t. 305. Recens. pl. in reposit. botan. 
depict. 37. Persoon syn. \. 130. ee 
* Caules plures suffruticost erecti, pariim ramosi, teretes, villosuli, sesqui-’ 
pedales, pennam columbinam crasst. « Folia terna, brevitér petiolata, lanceo-: 
lata, acuta, integerrima, utringue et ad oras villis brevissimis scabra, paten- 
tissima v. refleca, unam,alteramve unciam longa.. Stipule subulate, erecta, 
tern, cum foliis alternantes. Pedunculi terminales, plusculi, erecti, 5-flori, 
etiam semel dichotomi, scabri, semunciam »v. unciam longi. Flores inodori, 
erecti. Cal. et germen hirta. Cor. coccinea, forts villosula, uncialis. Anth. 
flavide. Cal. 4-phyllus, superus,~persistens, foliolis lanceolatis acuminatis 
patentissimis. Cor, 1-petala; tubus (tetragono-) cylindricus, longissimus, 
erectus. Limbt 4--fidt et brevissimi laciniis ovatis, -obtusis, patentissimis. Fil. 
subulata, tota feré quanta tubo adnata; Germ. ee: turbinatum cum 
wertice ultra calycis ortum prominente subbifido. Stylus subulatus, erectus, 
tubo corolle brevior. Stigma obtusum, oblongum. Jacq. loc. cit. 
When we turn to the description of the Ixora americana 
we are at a loss to account for Jacquin’s having conceived 
our plant to belong to that species. Ixora americana is 
stated to be a tree, with leaves that have long petioles, and 
a flower in which the tube is shorter than in any other of. 
the genus: all of them features which have no existence 
here. We since find our plant intruded upon Housronta, 
from which, as well as Ixora, it has been judiciously re- 
moved by Mr. R. A. Salisbury, and made the foundation of 
a genus, called after Dr. Charles Bouvard ; a former super- 
intendant, and one of the earliest as well as most consider- 
able benefactors of that celebrated national establishment, 
the botanic garden at Paris, 
_ The plant is become very general in our collections. It 
is suffrutescent and perennial, from one to two feet high, 
