12 PENTANDRIA MONOGYNIA. EcMteS. 



leg. Bark dark rust-colour, with fissures and scabrous 

 specks. Leaves opposite, short-petioled, ovate-cordate, 

 pointed, entire. Petioles with the nerve and veins colour- 

 ed red. Cymes terminal, sub-globular. Bracies falling. 

 Flowers numerous, large, pure white, delightfully fra- 

 grant. Calyx five-leaved, leaflets lanceolate, as long as 

 the corol, somewhat coloured, on the outside a little 

 downy. Corol; fw&e five-sided, gibbous; segments oi 

 the border large, triangular. Nectary and pistillum as in 

 other species. Follicles cylindric, spreading. Seeds a 

 few, very large, crowned with down. 



The delightful smell of the flowers of this plant, as well 

 as their beauty, makes it highly deserving a place in the 

 flower garden. On my arrival in Bengal I found it in a 

 few gardens only. 



5. 'E.frutescens, R. 



Twining. Leaves oblong, pointed. Panicles terminal ; 

 segments of the corol long twisted and hairy ; tube gib- 

 bous above the middle. Nectary of five headed filaments. 

 Follicles linear. 



A. floribus fasciculatis. Burm. zeyl. 23. 1. 12 f. 1. 



Syama. Asiat. Res, iv. 261. 



Beng. Syaraa-lwta. 



Teling. Nalla-tiga. 



This plant Dr. Konig thought was Apocymum frutes- 

 cens of Linnceus. It is a large, ramous, twining, shrubby 

 species ; common in hedges, &c. 



Leaves opposite, short-petioled, oblong, or broad-lanceo- 

 late, pointed, smooth, entire ; from one to t»vo inches long. 

 Panicles terminal ; ramifications opposite. Flowers 

 small, white, inodorous. Corol. Tube gibbous where the 

 stamens are lodged ; mouth contracted, and shut with 

 hairs ; segments o£ the border linear, twisted hairs. iViec- 

 tary five subulate bodies with large recurved heads, sur- 

 rounding the germs. Style single, of a length sufficient to 



