16 PENTANDRIA MONOGYNIA. EcklteS, 



Shrubby, scaudent. Leaves lanceolate ; an anasto- 

 mosing vein near the margin. Panicles terminal, corym- 

 bose. 



Dood-h«ta the vernacular name in Silhet, where it is 

 indigenous climbing up, and over trees &c. Flowering 

 time April and May when the air is perfumed with its 

 fragrance. 



Leaves opposite, short-petioled, lanceolate, entire, 

 smooth, veins large, apices anostomosing and forming a 

 waved line within the margin ; from two to six inches long. 

 P«wicZes terminal, longer than the leaves, lax, corymbi- 

 form ; first ramifications opposite, i. e. subtrichotomous 

 afterwards dichotomous ; all smooth. Bractes en^iform. 

 Flowers many, large, white, fragrant. Calyx five- 

 leaved ; leaflets ensiform. Tube of the corol gibbous at 

 the base, the stamina lodged near the middle. Segments 

 oftlie border five, linear, falcate. Nectary a ring round 

 the base of the germ. Germ two-lobed ; ovula in each 

 lobe numerous, attached to a projecting receptacle down 

 the centre of the partition. Style half the length of the- 

 tube of the corol. Stigma large, oblong, bidentate. 



10. E, cymosa. R. 



Shrubby, hairy. Leaves elliptic, acuminate. Cymes 

 terminal, shorter than the leaves, crowded. Calyx five 

 leaved, length of the corol. Nectary poculiform, with 

 five-toothed mouth. 



Kasee. Ewtaesbrab. 



A native of the copses, or low jungle in the Silhet dis- 

 trict, where it grows to be a middle sized, ramous shrub; 

 flowering in May. 



Young shoots hairy. 



Leaves petioled, opposite, elliptic, acuminate, hairy, 

 particularly underneath ; from three to four inches long, 

 by from one and half to two and half broad. Cymes ter- 

 minal, subglobular, much shorter than the leaves, crowd- 



