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IXORA grandiflora. 
Large-flowered scarlet Ixora. 
TETRANDRIA MONOGYNIA. 
Nat. ord. Rustacem. Jussieu gen. 196. : 
Div. VI. Fructus monocarpus bilocylaris dispermus, Folia ops 
posita. 
IXORA. Supra vol. 2. fol. 100. 
I. grandiflora, foliis sessilibus, oblongis, acutis, basi cordatis; segmentig 
calycis acutis: laciniis corollz ovali-lanceolatis, acutis. 
Ixora coccinea. Lin. sp. pl. 1. 159;  (exclusis synonymis Osbeck, 
Rumph, et Burman). Lamarck encyc. 3. 348. 
Axora foliis ovalibus semiamplexicaulibus, floribus fasciculatis. Linn, 
Flor, zeyl. 22; (affirmante specimine archetypo Herbarii Hermanniani 
in Mus. Banks.) 
Jasminum indicum, lauri folio, inodorum umbellatum, floribus coccineis, 
Pluk. alm. 196. t. 59. fig. 2. 
Ratambala, s. Cerasus sylvestris zeylanica pavonina umbellata latifolia, 
floribus coccineis holosericeis. Herman. zeyl. 36. 
Schetti. Rheede mal. 2. 17. t. 19. 
» Frutex 4-6-pedalis, erecto-ramosus. Folia distantér decussata, sessilia, 
subcordato-oblonga, acuminata, nitida, 3-4-uncialia, sesquiunciam lata ma- 
gisve. Stipule ovato-subulate, carinate. Cymex terminales, subsessiles, 
breves, multiflore, simpliciores, trichotome ; pedunculi curti, colorati, tri 
Jidi, infra trichotomiam bibracteati, pedicellis brevissimis, medio trium ebrace 
teato; bractez duriuscule. Cal. parvus, coloratus, 4-fidus, segmentis cam- 
panulato-conniventibus, acuminatis, patulis. Cor. pro genere magna, miniato« 
coccinea, extus opacata lanugine aded minuté ut vix nisi oculo armato percipi- 
~ endd ; tubus sesquiuncialis, laciniis limbi aliquotiés longior, 
a 
The present is the species intended by Linnzus, in his 
Flora Zeylanica, for Ixora coccinea, as proved by the 
prototype-specimen in the Hermannian. Herbarium at Sir 
Joseph Banks’, Another species however has long and 
generally borne its name in the european collections, and 
filled its place in the recent botanical works. For instance, 
in the late edition of the Hortus Kewensis and Curtis’s 
Botanical Magazine; and we should think it misapplied 
criticism, to attempt to reinstate a name on the score of 
ptiority, in face of a prescription so grounded. We have 
therefore corrected the error, by restoring the synonyms we 
deem to belong to the species; but have adopted a new 
specific title, Osbeck, adduced as a synonym by Linneus, 
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