Echites, pentancria 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 one and 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. Anthers 



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