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IXORA crocata. 
Colvill’s new Chinese Tvora. 
TETRANDRIA MONOGYNIA. 
Nat. ord. Rustacem. Jussieu gen. 196. Div. Vi. Fructus monocar- 
pus bilocularis dispermus. Stamina 4. Molia opposita, caulis plerdmque 
Jfrutescens. 
IXORA. Supra vol. 2. fol. 10. 
J. crocata, foliis firmis subcoriaceis, ovali-lanceolatis deorsim longiis 
attenuatis; cymis copiosifloris decompositis confertis fastigiatis; calyce 
' previssimo, dentibus ovato-acutatis; limbi laviniis cuneato-obovatis, 
tubo ter magisve brevioribus; antheris sessilibus; styli medio parcé 
piloso. 
Folia 4-5 uncialia latitudine sesquiunciali vel majore, erecto-patentia, acu- 
tula: stipule virentes, inferne latissime, aristé subulata abrupté terminate. | 
Cymz decomposite densiores erecte fastigiate convexiuscule: pedunculi 
primarii rubri teretes, pube subtili consperst, bracteis binis oppositis brevis- 
simis oblato-acuminatis coloratis arcté ad divisuras subienst vel lapsarum 
vestigio annulato-impressi: secundarii trichotomi: proprii uniflori, breves, 
bast bracteati. Cal. brevissimus coccineus glaber, dentibus quinque ovato- 
acuminatis. Corolla crocea, erecta glabra: tubus sesquiuncialis: limbus 
diametro subunciali, laciniis cuneato-obovatis divaricato-explanatis subaequa- 
libus, tubo ter magisve brevioribus. _ Anthere flave sessiles adnate introrse 
(astivatione oblonge quadrisulce fulve apice glanduloso acuto luteo termi~ 
nate, basi lutescentes glandulose obtuse, filamento subnullo vel brevissimo). 
Stylus capillaris, tubo equalis, ruber, medio vel juxtd parce pilosus ; cete- 
rum glaber. 
Said to have been lately introduced by Mr. Colvill from 
China, and to have flowered this autumn (for the first time) 
in the hothouse of the Chelsea Nursery, under the skilful su- 
perintendance of Mr.Sweet; who thinks it distinct from the 
well-known Ixora coccinea (Curtis’s magaz. 169; Ixora stricta 
of the Flora Indica, chinensis of Lamarck, and flammea of 
Salisbury and Smith in Rees’s Cyclopedia; but certainly not 
coccinea of Linneeus, which is grandiflora (fol. 154) of the 
present work), by a firmer thicker leathery paler green 
leaf, by segments to the corolla which are not round, as 
well as by general habit, and an orange-red inflorescence. 
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