Echites. PENTANDRIA MONOGYNIA. 19 
er than the tube of the corol, columnar. Stigma large, 
clammy, and adhering to the anthers, apex two-toothed, 
13, E. dichotoma, R, 
Twining. Leaves opposite, ‘lanceolate-oblong. 
Racemes axillary, dichotomous. Segments of the corol 
obovate. Filaments thick, headed, and woody. 
~ Beng. Happur-malee. 
Pergularia glabra, Kon. in B. H. . 
A large, twining, shrubby plant, found in forests, &e, 
near Calcutta ; flowering time, the hot season, Stems 
ligneous. Branches numerous, spreading and twining ; 
bark of the woody part ash-coloured, of the young shoots 
green and smooth. Leaves. opposite, very short-petioled, 
from oblong to lanceolar, acute, recurved, entire, smooth ; 
from two to three inches long, and from one, to one and 
a half broad. Stipules, some awl-shaped, brown glands 
surrounding the insertions of the leaves. Racemes axilla- 
ry, ora little above, solitary, generally two-cleft, or two 
racemes toa common peduncle, rachis winding. Flowers 
alternate, generally solitary, pretty long-pedicled, large, 
pure white, pleasantly fragrant. Bractes, afew ofan 
unequal size at the insertion of each pedicel. Calyx of 
five, cordate, pointed leaflets ; the length of the tube of the 
corol. Corol tubular ; tube short; border large, flat; di- 
visions roundish-obovate. _Nectary cylindric, surround- 
ing the germs ; mouth five-notched. Filaments inserted. on 
the mouth of the tube of the corol, very thick, with a large 
round pearl coloured projection behind the insertion of the 
arrow-shaped anthers, which are woolly on the fore side.‘ 
Germs two, &c. as in the former species, Style single, 
hairy. Stigma headed, and adhering firmly toa projection 
in the fissure which forms the barb of the Anthers. Follicles 
oblong, large, being about six inches long, and above two 
_in diameter at the thickest part, and what is most extraor- 
einarys ibe.cnkn:tem.renh reasele which Ihave yet.mmet 
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