Ecnites belongs to the natural order of Apocinee of 
Brown, who has separated the Asclepiadez from this order, 
and is the first genus in his division having a coma at the 
umbilical or superior extremity of the seed ; and the plant 
which he has especially recommended to be re-examined. 
_ Vide Memoirs of the Wernerian Society, v. 1. p. 60. 
Native of the East-Indies. Requires to be kept in the 
stove. For an opportunity of giving a drawing of this very ; 
rare plant, we are indebted to Sir Apranam Hume, of 
Woimly-Bury, Herts, in whose stove it flowered, in October 
1815. 
