14 PENTANDRIA MONOGYNIA. Echites.. 
7. E. grandiflora, R. . 
Scandent. Leaves cuneate-oblong. Cymes terminal, 
and axillary. Leaflets of the calyx-lanceolar, waved, and 
coloured. Corol companulate. Follicles linear. 
A native of the hilly parts of Chittagong and Silfet, 
where it blossoms during the dry season. The seeds take 
nearly one year to ripen. 
Stem and large branches ligneous, and ont toa 
very great extent, young shoots villous. Leaves oppo- 
site, short-petioled, from oblong-cuneiform, to obovate— 
oblong, entire, apex rounded, with a short point; void of 
pubescence, hard; from six to eight inches long by from 
_ two to five broad. Cymes axillary, becoming lateral, 
short, few-flowered, all the parts thereof clothed with fer- 
ruginous down. Flowers very large, equalling those of So- 
landra grandiflora; greenish yellow. Bractes oblong, co- 
loured and veined. Calyx to the base divided into five 
long, lanceolate, waved, acute, coloured, veined seg- - 
ments. Corol campanulate; border expanding about five 
inches, and divided into five oval, waved, rather acumi- 
nate, broad segments. Filaments five, nearly as long as 
the corol, ascending in a gentle curve, smooth, inserted . 
into the base of the bell of the corol. Anthers sagittate, 
sides firmly united, forming a conical cover for the stig- 
ma, to which they cohere. Germ two-lobed, hairy, 
two-celled ; ovula numerous, attached to a jugiform 
receptacle in each cell, rising from the partition. Style 
length of the stamina. Stigma large, clammy. Follicles 
horizontal, linear, obtuse, pretty smooth, the thickness of 
‘the little finger ; points rather incuryed, and obtuse ; from 
six to ten inches long. Seeds numerous, imbricated, ob- 
long, compressed, brown, comose; coma very ample, I 
have rarely seen so large points to this apex of the folli- 
cles. Perisperm thin, light grey. Embryo straight, Coty- 
ledons oblong. Radicle Ne Nae puberior, 
