16 PENTANDRIA MONOGYNIA. Echites. 
Shrubby, scandent. Leaves lanceolate; an anasto~- 
mosing vein near the margin. Panicles terminal, corym- 
bose. 
Dood-luta the vernacular name in Silhet, where it is 
indigenous climbing up, and over trees &c. Flowering 
time April and May when the air is perfumed with its 
fragrance. 
Leaves opposite, short-petioled, lanceolate, entire, 
smooth, veins large, apices anostomosing and forming a 
waved line within the margin ; from two to six inches long. 
Panicles terminal, longer than the leaves, lax, corymbi- 
form; first ramifications opposite, i. e. subtrichotomous 
. afterwards dichotomous; all smooth. Bractes ensiform. 
Flowers many, large, white, fragrant. Calyx five- 
leaved; leaflets ensiform. Tube of the corol gibbous at 
the base, the stamina lodged near the middle. Segments 
of the border five, linear, falcate. Nectary a ring round 
the base ofthe germ. Germ two-lobed; ovula in each’ 
lobe numerous, attached to a projecting receptacle down. 
the centre of the partition. Style half the-length of the 
tube of the corol. Stigma large, oblong, bidentate. 
~ 10. E. cymosa. R. : 
Shrubby, hairy. Leaves elliptic, acuminate. Cymes 
terminal, shorter than the leaves, crowded. Calyx five 
-leaved, length of the corol, Nectary poculiform, with 
five-toothed mouth. 
Kasee, Ewtaesbrab. . 
A native of the copses, or low jungle in the Silhet dis- 
trict, where it grows to be a middle sized, ramous shrub; 
flowering in May. 
~ Young shoots hairy. 
- Leaves petioled, opposite, elliptic, acuminate, hairy, 
particularly underneath; from three to four inches long, 
by from one and half to two and half broad. Cymes ter- 
minal, subglobular, much shorter than the leaves, crowd- 
