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(3) E. CORIACEA. {WaMT^ 



Ident. Wall. Cat. No. 1S37.— rDec. prod. IX. p. 465. 



Spec. Char. Branchlets and peduncles somewhat pubescent: 

 leaves coriaceous, elliptic, attenuated at both ends: peduncles ax- 

 illary, scarcely longer than the petiole, closely panicled : corolla, 

 4 times exceeding the calyx, rusty-silky outside. 



Chittagong. 



(4) E. WiGHTiANA. (JF. Grah.) 



Ideni Dalz. Bomb. flor. p. 170. 



Spec Char. Climbing : leaves coriaceous, shining, oblong* 

 acuminate, attenuate at the base : racemes about the length of the 

 leaves : corolla almost rotate, white : divisions cuneate, 2-lobed, 

 their lower part clothed outside with rusty tomentum, very fragrant : 

 segments of the calys; rounded, cbthed with riis<;y hairs : stigma 

 large, convolute. 



Poouda ghaut, flowering in November, 



OEDEB CXV. BOEAGIXAOE.S. 



Calyx free, often persistent, sometimes enlarging with tho 

 fruit, 5, (very rarely 4)-cleffc or parted : sepals valvate in sesti^ 

 vation: corolla hypogynous, deciduaus, monopetaloas, usually 

 5-lobed, tube more or less elongated, limb spreading or erect, 

 sometimes slightly unequal : aestivation various, usually imbri- 

 cate with one lobe often exterior: stamens as many as the 

 lobes of the corolla : anthers erect or incumbent, 2-celled :' cells 

 parallel, opening lengthwise : ovai?y consisting of ? (anteriop 

 and posterior) more or less distinct, 2-celled carpels : cells con- 

 crete or separate, 1-ovuled : torus depressed or elongated, bear- 

 ing the carpels, inserted either by the base or by the back : 

 style between the separate carpels or springing from the apejp 

 of the concrete ones, simple, bifid, or twice bifid at the apex : 

 fruit various^ from 4 to 1-seeded : seed without, or with thin 

 fleshy albumen : embryo straight, inyeraei r9,rely curved : coty-r 

 ledons foliaceous, entire, flat, or plicate. — Herbs, undershrubs, 

 phruba or trees with the surface of the leaves, calyx and 



