263 



(1) S. Wallichii. (Dec.) 



, tdent. Dec. prod. VIII. p. 418. 



Sytt. S. dichotomus, Wall. No. 1641. 



kng'rav. Bot. Reg. t, 469. 



Spec. ChAr. Glitabing: leaves elliptic-oboVatfe, subacute iil 

 the base, 'shortly acuminated at the apex : cymes dichotomous, 

 many-flowered : bracts and calycine lobes linear-lanceolate, long, 

 iapreiiding, reflexed at the apex : flowers greenish white. 



Silhet. Coromaiidel. , Floweriilg in the hot season. 



(2) S. WiGHTiANPs. (Wall.) 



Ident. Wight's Icon. Vol. IV. 



Eitgrav. Wight 1. c. t. 1301. 



Spec. Char. Shrubby, twining, glabrous : bark wafty : leaveiS 

 elliptic, acute at both ends, shortly acuminate : lobes of the calyx 

 ovate, about one-third the length of the tube of the corolla : corslla 

 glabrous within, appendices exserted, deeply 2-cleft, lobes filiform : 

 aristae of the stamens filiform, longer than the anthers : style 

 Somewhat ligulate, with a crisp marginal wing : follicles largCj 

 bbtuse, warty all over, seed with a long apiculus. 



Travancore, frequent about Quilon. 



GENUS XVli. CHONEMORPHA. 



Pentandrla UHLonosynia. Sex-. Sysis 



beriv. From Chone, a funnel, and Morphe, form ; alluding ta 

 'the shape of the corolla. 



Gen. Char. Calyx 5.-cleft, tubular, funnel-shaped, glandular 

 at the base, lobes acuminate, erect : corolla salver-shaped, tube 

 narrower at the base, cylindric in the middle, without appendages, 

 lobes obovate : anthers sessile, sagittate, lobes at the base short, 

 acute, inflexed, with a very acute point : nectary cup-shaped, thick, 

 entire, or somewhat crenated : ovarifes two, oblong : stigma oblong, 

 winged at the base, 2-toothed at the apex : follicles long, linear- 

 acuminate : seeds oboVate- oblong, comose above : albumen sniiall ; 

 radicle superior. 



(1) C. macrophylla. CG, Bon.) 

 Ident. Don, Syst. Gard. IV. p. 76.— Dec. prod. VIII. p. 430i,; 

 Stfn. Echites macrophylla, Roxb. fl. Ind. II. p. 13. 

 Engrav. Wight's Icon. t. 432. — Rheede Mai. IX. t. 5 & 6. 

 Spec. Char. Climbing shrub : leaves opposite, entire ; cyme^ 



