other valuable subjects, to Messrs. Whitleys, under the 
care of their friend Captain Craigie. 
The genus differs from Echites in the absence of hy- 
pogynous glands, and in the ovarium being of one piece 
instead of two. It is a native of Chittagong, where it 
flowers from the beginning of November to the end of June. 
Our drawing was made in June last. 
Stem shrubby, round, climbing, smooth. Branches 
pubescent. Leaves opposite, stalked, oblong, blunt, point- 
letted, narrowed towards the base, flat, dark-green, smooth, 
a little downy beneath. Corymbs terminal, or axillary, 
many-flowered. Calyx 5-leaved, downy ; leaflets oblong, 
point-letted, wavy, folded back at edge. Corolla very 
large,’ white, coriaceous, funnel-shaped, with a narrow 
tube, shorter than calyx, and a campanulate, 5-lobed limb, 
of which the lobes are short, roundish, acuminate, crisp : 
with round sinuses. Stamens 5, inserted in the mouth of 
tube, alternate with segments of corolla, shorter than limb. 
Filaments filiform, clavate at end, curved downwards at 
the base, smooth. Ovary round, depressed, viscid. with 
honey. Anthers sagittate, enclosing the fusiform stigma. 
J. LL. 
