ident having happened to the
plant which was Dr. FOTHERGILL'S) are said to have arisen the
plants at present in this country.

Both RHEEDE and RUMPHIUS describe and figure this
plant in their respective works, the _Hortus Malabaricus_ and _Herbarium
Amboinense_; it is mentioned also by several other authors: from their
various accounts we discover, that in different parts of India, where it
grows wild, it forms a slender shrub, or tree, about six feet high,
rising generally with a single stem; that its clusters of flowers, seen
from afar are so brilliant as to resemble a burning coal, especially in
a dark wood, whence its name of _Flamma Sylvarum_; that it grows in the
woods, and flowers in September and October, producing a black fruit,
the size of small cherries, on which the peacocks are supposed to feed,
and from whence they have obtained the name of _Cerasa Pavonina_. The
Chinese call it _Santanhoa_; with them it produces flowers and fruit the
year through, and they hold the blossoms in such veneration, as to use
them in the sacrifices they make to their idol IXORA, whence
LINNAEUS has taken the name applied by him to this genus. The
root is said to possess some acrimony, and to be made use of by the
natives in curing the toothach.

It is customary in this country, to treat the _Ixora_ as a stove plant;
perhaps it may be less tender than we are aware of; it flowers in July
and August, but has not been known to produce fruit; is increased from
cuttings, without much difficulty.

Our drawing was taken from a small but very healthy plant in the stove
of Mr. WHITLEY (late THOBURN and WHITLEY, Brompton).

LINNAEUS describes, and some authors figure this plant with
stipulae, which our plant had not, not being arrived at an age, perhaps,
to produce them.

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DRABA AIZOIDES. SENGREEN DRABA, or WHITLOW-GRASS.

_Class and Order._

TETRADYNAMIA SILICULOSA.

_Generic Character._

_Silicula_ integra, ovali-oblonga: valvis planiusculis, dissepimento
parallelis. _Stylus_ nullus.

_Specific Character and Synonyms._

DRABA _aizoides_ scapo nudo simplici, foliis ensiformibus carinatis
ciliatis. _Linn. Syst. Vegetab. ed. Murr. p. 372._ _Ait. Hort. Kew.
v. 2. p. 372._

SEDUM alpinum hirsutum luteum. _Bauh. Pin. 284._

LEUCOJUM luteum aizoides montanum. _Col. Ecphr. 2. p. 62._

[Illustration: No 170]

The plant here figured, a native of the German Alps, is one of those
whose beauty cannot