Echites. PENTANDRIA MONOGYNlA. 13 



brinjEj the large, compound Stigma in contact with the 

 anthers. Follicles and seeds as in the grenus. 



(). E. macropliylla, R, 



Shrubby, twining. Leaves sub-rotund acuminate, dow- 

 ny underneath. Cymes terminal. 



Belutta-kaka-kodi. Rheed. mal. ix. t. 5 and 6, 

 Ilarkee the vernacular name in S<lhet; where it is in- 

 digenous. Flowering time the hot months of May and 

 June ; the seeds do not ripen until the following March 

 or April. Stem and larger branches ligneous, twining, 

 young shoots marked with little elevated brown specks. 

 Leaves opposite, short-petioled, from oval to roundish 

 oval, entire, acute, downy underneath ; from ten to twelve 

 inches long by from seven to ten broad. Cymes termi- 

 nal, elevated on a strong erect peduncle, many-flowered. 

 Flowers very large, white. Bractes opposite, at the 

 divisions of the cyme, ovate, acute. Calyx companu- 

 late, five toothed. Corol infundibuliform. Tube gib- 

 bous immediately above the base where the anthers are 

 lodged; segments of the border unequally obovate, spread- 

 ing. Filaments short, hairy. Anthers sagittate, united 

 at the sides into a cone over the stigma. Germ superior, 

 ovate, two-lobed, two-celled, with many ovula in each, 

 attached to the thick middle ofthe partition. .S^i/Ze short, 

 grooved, as if composed of two portions firmly united. 

 Stigma headed, with an acute, bidentate apex. Follicles 

 pendulous, about twelve inches long, and as thick as the 

 little finger, tapering to an acute point, pretty smooth. 

 Seeds numerous, large, spatulate ; coma ample, pointing 

 to the apex of the follicle ; the reverse of Nerium cocci- 

 num. Liteguments single, firm, and brown. Perisperm 

 in a small quantity ; in fact an interior integument. 

 Embryo inverse. Cotyledons oblong. Radicle subcylin- 

 dric, superior, and pointing to the coma. 



