210 



at both ends : cymes axillary, dichotomous, few-flowered : calyoine 

 lobes lanceolate : follicles linear, narrow : flowers small, white. 



Malabar. 



(2) E. PARVIFLORA. (ROxb.) 



Jdent. Roxb. flor. Ind. II. p. 20.— Dec. prod. VIII. p. 478. 



Engrav. Wight's Icon. t. 423. 



Spec. Char. Climbing : leaves opposite, lanceolate : panicles 

 terminal and axillary, divaricate : tube of the corolla gibbous at the 

 base, lobes linear-falcate, nectary with an entire ring : follicles large, 

 ovate : flowers small, wh'ite. 



!^orthern Sircars. Silhet. 



GEJSTUS XXT. ELLBRTONIA. 



Pentnvdrla IHonoi^ynla. Sex-. Syst: 



Beriv. Named in honor of J. EUerton Stocks, of the Bombay 

 Medical Establishment. 



Gen. Char. Calyx 5-cleft, lobes ovate-acute, without gland^ : 

 corolla hypocrateriform, 5-lobed, tube ventricose near the middle : 

 stamens included, filaments short, anthers lanceolate, cohering 

 round the stigma, cordate ^t the base, longer than the filaments : 

 ovaries 2, distinct^ united at the apex by the style, oblong, fur-i 

 rowed, 2-cl«ft at the apex : style filiform : stigma conical, pronged 

 into a 2-cleft apiculus : follicles terete, divaricated : with two rows 

 «if seed : seed compresse4, peltate, wipged at each end : radicle 

 superior. 



(1) E. Rheebii. {R. W.) 



Jdent. Dalz. Bomh. flor, p. 146.— Wight's Icon. vol. IV. 



, Engrav. Wight's Icon. t. 1295.— Rheede Mai. IX. t. 14.' 



Spec. Char. Scandent shrub : leaves opposite or 3-4-verticelled, 

 elliptic, acuminate : corymbs axillary or several from the ends of 

 the branches, longish-peduncled, cymose, many-flowered. 



Mftlabar. Quilon. Warree country. 



GENUS ,XXVI. HELIGME. 



Pent4»ntlrla monofrynia. Sex.- Syati 



D^iv, From Helis, a screw ; alluding to the spirally twisted 

 filaments. 



pEN. Char. Calyx 5-cleft: corolla rotate, tube short, ventri- 

 '§»«», segments oblique : stamens exserted : style spirally circumvo^ 



