82 PLANTS OF PRINCE OF WALLS ISLAND. 



tube ; anthers awl-shape, without convex horny ; within an- 

 gular ; converging ; shedding the pollen from a furrow of the 

 internal angle near the tip. Pist : Germ above, conical, two 

 furrowed. Style clubbed, erect : stigma blunt, closely embraced 

 by the anthers. Follicles two, cylindrical, long, nearly join- 

 ing at the tip, hanging. Seeds many, oblong, pappous, imbric- 

 ated. 



This elegant shrub was introduced from China, and is 

 cultivated in the Honourable Company's spice plantation. 

 (It is apparently lost out of cultivation now here). 



Loureiro's description of his Nerium divaricatum agrees 

 well with this species ; except that the branches can hardly be 

 called divaricate. But his plant is evidently different from the 

 Nerium divaricatum of Linneus ; and the figure to which he 

 refers (Burman. Zeylan. p. 163, t. 78, fig. 1.) does not at all 

 correspond with this plant. This shrub has a great affinity to 

 the Nerium caudatum of Dr. Eoxburgh. 



ECHITES. 

 Ec kites ? pa 1 1 ic u la ta, H . 



Shrubby ; Leaves oblong, pointed ; panicles axillary, de- 

 compound nectary of five glands, round the germ. It much 

 resembles the Echites parviflora of Dr. Eoxburgh. 



Shrub middle sized. Branches round, smooth , knotted. 

 Leaves opposite, decussated, petioled, widely spreading,, 

 oblong, pointed, most entire, above glossy, beneath smooth. 

 Petioles short, roundish, smooth, spreading. Panicles axil- 

 lary decompound, diffuse; the partial ones opposite, of four 

 pairs with an odd one, widely spreading, composed of three or 

 five umbels. Flowers very small, yellow. Calyx, perianthium 

 one leafed, pitcher form, very small, five parted, segments ovate, 

 acute, erect. Corolla one petaled, funnel shape, contorted, limb 

 five cleft, widely spreading ; segments oblong, obtuse, bent to 

 the left, shaggy above. Nectary glands five, ovate, surrounding 

 the germ. Stam : filaments five, thread form, very short, 

 erect ; anthers arrow-shape, ciliate, converging. Pist : Germs 

 two, ovate, compressed internally ; Style thread form ; very 



Jour. Straits Branch 



