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, JR. 



Twining, ieave* opposite, lanceolate-oblong. 



Racemes axillary, dichotomous. Segments of the corol 

 obovate. Filaments thick, headed, and woody. 



Beng. Happ?<r-malee. 



Pergularia glabra, Kon. in B. H. 



A large, twining, shrubby plant, found in forests, .&c. 

 nediV Calcutta ; flowering time, the hot season. Stems 

 ligneous. Branches numerous, spreading and twining ; 

 6arAr of the woody part ash-coloured, of the young shoots 

 ^reen 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, or a little above, solitary, generally two-cleft, or two 

 racemes to a common peduncle, rachis winding. Flowers 

 alternate, generally solitary, pretty long-pedicled, large, 

 pure white, pleasantly fragrant. Bractes, a few of an 

 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 to a 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- 

 dinary, the only few seed vessels which I have yet met 



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