18 PENTANDRIA MONOGYNIA. EchitCS. 



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. Stignia 

 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 Asclepiadce. 



9. E. hircosa, R. 



Twining. Leaves petioled, oval, smooth. Panicles 

 axillary, globular, and open. Anthers exert, a pearl like 

 gland on the back. 



Fergularia glabra. Willd. 1. 1247. 



Tlos pei'gularia. Rnmph. amb. 51. 29./. 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 ofi'ensive 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, somewhat 

 pointed, entire, smooth ; from three to five inches long, and 

 from two to three broad. 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, and short. Anthers saggittate, 

 forming a pointed cone over the stigma on the base ; on 

 the outside a large, beautiful pearl-like gland. Germ hairy, 

 two-lobed, 2 celled ; Ovula numerous, attached to an 

 elevated vertical receptacle on the partition. Style long- 



