evidently has another plant in view, probably that figured 
in the Botanical Magazine, the Ixora coccinea of our 
gardens. 
Txora grandiflora has been recently introduced by Sit 
Abraham Hume, to whom, and Lady Amelia Hume, our 
collections owe many of their handsomest and most curious 
vegetables. 
Native of various parts of India, where it is said to 
flower nearly the year round. It forms a shrub from four 
to five feet high, with a stem of inconsiderable girth, much 
branched, and covered with a reddish brown bark. Leaves - 
opposite decussated at largish intervals, sessile, 3-4 inches 
long, 13-2 broad, oblong, pointed, subcordate at the base, 
smooth. Stipules ovate, subulate, keeled. _Cymes very 
short, loose, but many-flowered, trichotomous: peduncles 
short, coloured, trifid, with two small hard bractes beneath 
the trichotomy, the middle pedicle of the three which form. 
it, having no bracte. Mowers vermilion, large for the 
genus, more than an inch and half long, scentless. Seg- 
ments of both Calyx and Corolla acute, those of the latter 
lanceolate. In India the bloom is highly prized for its 
beauty, and according to Rheede, esteemed an acceptable 
offering in the worship of Ixora, a Malabar idol, which has 
afforded to Linnzeus the generic name. The purple berries, 
or berried capsules, are about the size and form of a cherry, 
and are said to be the food of the peacock; whence the 
shrub has been sometimes called Cerasus pavonina. 
- The drawing was made last August from a plant in the 
hothouse at Sir A. Hume’s, Wormleybury, Hertfordshire, 
a Pistil, 
