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P L A T E LXXYIII.
I X O R A PAVETTA.
Sweet Ixora.
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C L A S S IV. ORDER I.
TETRANDRIA MONOGYNIJ. Four Chives. One Pointai.
G E N E R I C CHAKACTEE.
CALYX. Perianthium quadripartitum, minimum,
ereftum, perfiftens.
COROLLA moiiopetala, infundibuliformis. Tubus
cylindraceus, longiiTimuSj tenuis. Limbus
quadripartitus, planus; laciniis ovatis.
STAMINA. Filanaenta quatuor, brevillima, in
divifuris corolla;. Antherae oblongas.
PisTiLLUM. Germen fubrotundum, intra bafin
calycis. Stylus filiformis, longitudine tubi.
Stigma bifidum.
PEKIOAKPIUM. Bacca fabrotanda, bilocularis.
SEMINA duo, hiuc convexa, inde angulata.
EMPALEMENT. Cup with four divifions, very
finall, upright, and remaining.
BLOSSOM of one petal, funnel-ihaped. Tube
cylindrical, very long, and fmall. Border
of four divifions and flat ; the fegments
egg-fliaped.
CHIVES. Four threads, very ihort, placed in
the divifions of the bloffom. Tips oblong.
P O I N T A L . Seed-bud roundifli, in the bottom
of the cup. Shaft thread-lhaped, the length
of the tube. Summit two-cleft.
SEED-VESSEL. A roundiih berry, with two cells.
SEEDS, two, hollow on the infide, and angled
without.
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S P E C I F I C
Ixora foliis obtufis, undulatis, petiolatis, floribus
fafciculatis, odoratis, fordide luteis.
C H A R A C T E R .
Ixora with blunt, waved, leaves, having footftalks;
flowers grov/ in bunches, are fweet
fcented, and of a dirty yellow.
R E F E R E N C E TO THE PLATE.
1. The Empalement, (magnified).
2. A Blolfom with the feed-bud attached, (natural fize).
3. The fame with the Empalement, (magnified).
4. The Pointal, (natural fize).
5. The fame, magnified.
To the Lady Dowager de Cliiford are we indebted, for the introduftion of this new fpecies of Ixora,
a native of the Eaft Indies; her Ladyfliip having received it from thence, in the year J 796. It is a
tender hot-houfe plant, growing to the height of a foot, or more, and ver)' bufliy; the bunches of
flowers are very large, covering nearly the whole upper part of the plant, and are exceedingly fragrant.
The blofl'oms begin to expand about the beginning of Auguft, and continue to blow in fiicceflion,
till the end of Oaober. The only plant we have yet heard of, in England, is in her Lady,
fliip's colleaion at Paddington; where it has flowered for the firft time this year, and where our
drawing was made. It is propagated like the other fpecies of Ixora, by cuttings, and fliould be kept
in rich earth.
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