Echites. PENTANDRIA MONOGYNIA. 17 
ed with small dull white, fragrant flowers. Bractes en- 
siform, hoary. Calyx of five, hoary, ensiform leaflets, 
scarcely united at the base, and as long as the tube of the 
corol, Corol hoary on the outside, Tube gibbous ; bor- 
der of five, obliquely ensiform segments, which are shorter 
than the tube, and white in the bud, imbricated. Necta- 
ry poculiform, embracing very completely the whole 
germ ; mouth five-toothed. Anthers within the tube, sa- 
gitate. Germ of two distinct lobes, their apices very 
hairy, each lobe one-celled, and containing numerous o- 
vula attached to a vertical ridge on the partition. Style 
short, Stigma large, acuminate, adhering by gluten to 
the inside of the anthers, 
8. E. paniculata, R 
~Shrubby, scandent. Leaves broad-lanceolar, entire, 
smooth. Panicles axillary and terminal, trichotomous 
- throughout. Nectary cup-shaped, surrounding the germ, 
five-toothed. Follicles obclavate, few-seeded. 
. An extensive, powerful, woody rambler ; a native of 
the forests of Silhet. Flowering in March and April, the 
seeds from the flowers of the former year ripening about 
the same time. 
Young shoots round and perfectly smooth. Leaves op- 
posite, short-petioled, broad-lanceolar, smooth and of a 
‘very firm texture, entire, obtuse-pointed ; from four to 
eight inches long, and from oneand a half to three broad. 
Stipules none. Panicles axillary, and terminal, long- 
er than the leaves, smooth in every part, throughout tri- 
chotomous to the extreme divisions, and they are three- 
flowered, Bractes oval, embracing the base of the divi- 
sions. Flowers very numerous, and very small, pale-yel- 
low. Calyx five parted. Corol with a short gibbous tube, _ 
and border of five, falcate, woolly-margined segments. 
Nectary cup-shaped, five-toothed, embracing the low- 
er half, or more, of the germ, Filaments short. 
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