Echites. PENTANDRIA MONOGYNIA, 13 
bring the large, compound Stigma in contact with the 
anthers. Follicles and seedsas inthe genus. __—* 
6. E. macr ophylla, R , 
Shrubby, twining. Leaves sub-rotund acumineee: dow- 
ny underneath. Cymes terminal. 
-Belutta-kaka-kodi. Rheed. mal. ix. ft. 5 and 6. 
Harkee the vernacular name in Silhet; where it is in- 
digenous. Flowering time the hot months of May and 
June; the seeds do not ripen until the following March 
or April. Stem and larger branches ligneous, twining, 
young shoots marked with little elevated brown specks. 
Leaves opposite, short-petioled, from oval to roundish 
oval, entire, acute, downy underneath ; from ten to twelve 
inches long by from seven to ten broad. Cymes termi- 
nal, elevated on a strong erect peduncle, many-flowered. — 
Flowers very large, white. Bractes opposite, at the 
divisions of the cyme, ovate, acute. Calyx companu- 
late, five toothed. Corol infundibuliform. Tube gib- 
bous immediately above the base where the anthers are 
lodged; segments of the border unequally obovate, spread- 
ing. Filaments short, hairy. Anthers sagittate, united 
at the sides into a cone over the stigma, Germ superior, 
ovate, two-lobed, two-celled, with many ovula in each, 
attached to the thick middle ofthe partition. Style short, 
grooved, as if composed of two portions firmly united. 
Stigma headed, with an acute, bidentate apex. Follicles 
pendulous, about twelve inches long, and as ‘thick as the 
little finger, tapering to an acute point, pretty smooth. 
Seeds numerous, large, spatulate ; coma ample, pointing 
to the apex of the follicle; the reverse of Nerium cocci- 
num. Infeguments single, firm, and brown. Perisperm 
in asmall quantity; in fact an interior integument. 
Embryo inverse. Cotyledons oblong. Radicle yeh 
aggre, superior, and pointing to the coma, 
