12 PENTANDRIA MONOGYNIA, Echites. 
leg. Bark dark rust-colour, with fissures and scabrous 
specks. Leaves opposite, short-petioled, ovate-cordate, 
pointed, entire. Petioles with the nerve and veins colour- 
ed red. Cymes terminal, sub-globular. Bractes falling. 
Flowers numerous, large, pure white, delightfully fra- 
grant. Calyx fiye-leaved, leaflets lanceolate, as long as 
the corol, somewhat coloured, on the outside a little 
downy. Corol; tube five-sided, gibbous; segments of 
the border large, triangular. Nectary and pistillum as in 
other species. Follicles cylindric, spreading. Seedsa 
few, very large, crowned with down. 
The delightful smell of the flowers of this plant, as well 
as their beauty, makes it highly deserving a place in the 
flower garden. On my arrival in Bengal I found it in a 
few gardens only. 
d. E. frutescens, R. : 
Twining. Leaves oblong, pointed. Panicles terminal ; 
segments of the corol long twisted and hairy; tube gib- 
bous above the middle. a ae headed filaments. 
Follicles linear. 
A. floribus fasciculatis. Burm. se me. tc dey, Ae 
Syama. Asiat. Res, iv. 261. ; 
Beng. Syama-luta. 
Teling. Nalla-tiga. 
This plant Dr. Konig thought was Apocymum frutes- 
cens of Linneus. Itis a large, ramous, twining, shrubby 
species ; common in hedges, &c. 
Leaves opposite, short-petioled, oblong, seioadsaneso. 
late, pointed, smooth, entire ; from one to two inches long. 
Panicles terminal; ramificnsiala opposite. Flowers 
small, white, inodorous. Corol. Tube gibbous where the 
stamens are lodged ; mouth contracted, and shut with 
hairs ; segments of the border linear, twisted hairs. Nec- 
tary five subulate bodies with large recurved heads, sur- 
rounding the germs. Style mangle, ofa tongs sufficient to 
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