^4 



terminal an^ axillary, composite : peduncles pointed, stiff:' flowers 

 very large, white. 



Silhet. Bandadn the Warree country, flowering m May and 

 June. 



GENUS XVIH. BHYNOOSPERMtTM. 



Deriv. -Froim I^ynchos, a beak, and Sperma, seed> 



Gkn. Obar. Calyx deeply S^cleft, tube campanulate, with mafiy 

 truncated glands at the base' inside, lobes cblong: corolla 5>%left, ' 

 tube cylindiic, lobes obliquely dbovate > iilainent^ B)£U)i&stly a)dnate 

 with the base of the corolla, anthers hastate : nectary cup-shaped> 

 5-cleft: ovaries two, longer than the nectary: st%ma obtong: 

 fc^ieles long, compressed, harrow : seed& numeroas, obttvfate, eo'm- 

 pressed below, above narrowed into a slender neck, ending iB'^Iky 

 coma : albumen none : embsyo sti^ght : radicle superior : cotyle^ 

 dons oblong. 



(1) H. ttiiPiiqUM. (Dec.) 



tdent. Dec. prod. VIII. p. 431. 



iS'^n. Echites elliptica, Wall. 



Spec. Char. Climbing: leaves opposite, entire, elliptic, cus- 

 pidate, acute at the base, glabrous : calyx somewhat 5-parted : 

 lobes subacute, three times shorter than the tube of the corolla : 

 peduncles dichdtomous at the apex, and with the pedicels puberu- 

 ious : flowers white, rose-coloured at the base. 



Silhet. 



GENUS XIX. AGAN0SM4. 

 Pentandrla Iltoiiogynia> Sex; Syit: 



Deriv. From Aganos, mild, and (hme, smell ; alluding to the 

 iscent of the flowers. 



Gen. Char. Shrubs : leaves opposite,, entire : cymes terminal 

 and axillary, many-flowered : calyx 5-partite, lobes velvety ouibotli 

 sides, long-lanceolate, more or less glanduliferous within : corolla 

 5-cleft, tube cylindric, narrower quite at the base, contracted at the 

 apex, about the length of the calyx, lobes longf lanceplate : anthers 

 sessile, inserted in the lower part of the tube, lanceolate-acuminate : 

 nectary cup-shaped or cylindric, 5-lobed r ovaries two, often jiu- 

 bescent: stigma fusiform or cylindric at the base, broader than the 

 Style, acuminate, simple or 2-lobed above : follicles, two, long : 

 Iseeds linear-obovate, compressed, comose above: albumen small: 

 ^mbryo straight, axile : radicle superior : cotyledons oblong. 



