pS ae PENTANDRIA MONOGYNIA. Echites, 
saggitate, adhering to each other, in the gibbous part of 
the tube, and forming a dome over the stigma, Germs 
two-lobed, two celled, &c. Style very short. Stigma 
very large, with a pointed, bifid apex. Follicles horizon- 
tal, five or six inches long, as thick as the little finger 
at the base, and from thence tapering to an obtuse point, 
smooth, Seeds a few, with an immensely long and large 
coma. to the apex and Embryo, as in the Asclepiade, 
9. E. hircosa, R. 
_ Twining. Leaves petioled, oval, smooth. Panicles 
~axillary, globular, and open. Anthers exert, a pearl like 
gland on the back. 
Pergularia glabra. Willd, 1, 1247. 
Flos pergularia. Rumph. amb, 51, 29. f. 2. 
A pretty extensive, perennial, twining shrub ; a native 
of Bengal, but scarce. The flowers are pretty white, 
larger and more numerous than in dichotoma, but have 
a very offensive smell, truly goatish, as noticed by Rum- 
phius. It flowers about the end of the hot season, and 
the beginning of the rains in May and June. 
Leaves opposite, rather short-petioled, oval, senrowient 
pointed, entire, smooth ; from three to five inches long, and 
from two to three fren: Panicle axillary, shorter than 
the leaves, subglobular, very open, though very ramous, 
slightly villous. Flowers large, pure white, long pedicelled. 
Bractes from lanceolate to ensiform. Calyx 5-parted ; seg- 
ments sub-lanceolate, acute, Corol with a short, rather gib- 
bous tube. Border of several round spreading segments ; 
which are imbricated in the bud. Nectary of five, fleshy, 
smooth scabs, covering the germ, Filaments five from the 
mouth of the tube, thick, andshort. Anthers saggittate, 
forming a pointed cone over the stigma on the base ; on 
the outside a large, beautiful pearl-like gland. Germ Sasi 
two-lobed, 2 celled ; Ovula numerous, attached to an 
; elevated vertical receptacle on the partition, Style long- 
