10 PENTENDRIA MONOGYNIA. Neriune. 
parts of the Coast, bark. ash-coloured with scabrous 
‘specks. apr 
Leaves opposite, short-petioled, oval, waved, smooth, 
shining. Corymbs terminal, two-forked. _Bractes nar- 
row-lanceolate, revolute. Flowers large, pretty numer- 
ous. Calyx five-cleft ; divisions linear, waved, revolute, 
coloured, very much like the bractes. Corol ; tube con- 
tracted at the middle, each of the segments of the border 
ending in a large linear filament, as in Echites caudata. 
Nectary crowning the mouth of the tube as in the family. 
Anthers within the tube, and ending in filaments as in the 
genus. Germs two. Style length of the tube, white, 
rugose as if it were composed of small air bladders. 
‘T know of no use any part of this plaat is put to. Tf 
Burman’s Echites caudata is the same, the nectary, and 
threads to the anthers, are omitted in his figure, Flora In- 
dica Table 26. Is allied to De Candoll’s Strophanthus. 
9. N. grandiflorum, R. _ ee 
Shrubby, twining. Leaves oblong, polished. Flowers ter- 
minal. Nectaries bifid. Follicles three-sided horizontal. 
A native of the Peninsula of India. In the botanic 
garden at ‘Calcutta it is in flower great part of the year 
though the seeds do not often come to maturity. 
‘Stem stout, and woody. Bark smooth, greenish ash cor 
lour. Branches twining up and over trees of very consi- 
derable size severy part abundantly lactescent when wound- ~ 
ed. Leaves opposite, short petioled, oblong, entire. obtu- 
se-pointed, polished on both sides; underneath minutely re- 
ticulated, about three inches long, , by one and ahalfbroad. 
Flowers terminal, from one to many, forming a dichoto- 
_mous raceme with one in the fork, very large, pale pink. 
Bractes conically-lanceolate, opposite, caducous. Calyx 
five-leaved. Leaflets oval-lanceolate, with ample, thin 
curled margins. Corol campanulate, half five-cleft. Nec- 
taries five, not alternate. with, ‘but attached to the tube of 
