Echites. PENTANDRIA MONOGYNIA, 15 
8. E. acuminata, R. 
Shrubby, scandent. Leaves from oblong to broad-lan-_ 
ceolate, acuminate, Panicles axillary, longer than the 
leaves, diffuse, trichotomous, segments of the corol linear 
and falcate. Follicles filiform, about eightiinches long. 
Pingoree, or Bengeree the vernacular name in Silhet, 
where the plant is found in the forest, climbing up and 
over trees, &c. to a large extent. Flowering time May; 
the seeds ripen in about nine months. 
Young shoots rather rough with little, lighter coloured, 
elevated specks. Leaves opposite, short-petioled, broad- 
lanceolate, entire, acuminate, smooth ; from two to four. 
inches long, by one anda half broad. On young plants 
linear-lanceolate, and waved. Panicles axillary, solita- 
ry in one axil, the other vacant, longer than the leaves, 
lax, trichotomus throughout, smooth. Flowers many, 
large, white, and Aagrants Bractes opposite, long, slen—_ 
der, and smooth. - Calyx, large divided to the base, into 
live, long, narrow smooth segments. Corol. Tube the 
length of the calyx, enlarged at the base, the border cut in 
to five long, narrow, falcate, curled segments, which are 
imbricated inthe bud. Nectary cup-shaped, embracing 
the base of the germs, obscurely five-toothed. Filaments 
five, short, attached to the tube a little below the middle. 
Anthers sagittate, completely within the mouth of the tube, 
Germs two, or very completely two-lobed, each one- 
celled, containing numerous ovula, attached to a groov-.__ 
ed vertical receptacle on the inside. Style half the length 
of the tube. Stigma large, oblong, bidentate. Follicles 
pendulous about a foot and a half Jong, and not thicker. 
than a goose quill, dark brown, marked with small lighter. 
coloured specks, Seeds many, crowned with an am~ 
ple: coma, which points to the apex of the follicle. Pe- 
risperm aula sa iealaion inverse, _ Les 
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