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A small slender parasitic twiner. Floicers in dense umbellate cymes, 

 •25 in. wide. Sepals ovate obtuse, connate below, -1 in. long. Corolla 

 •15 in. wide, campanulate; lobes ovate obtuse. Stamens 5, sbortly 

 exserted. Scales near base of corolla-tube sbortly fimbriate. Ovary 

 obtuse, more or less perfectly 2-celled; ovules 4; styles 2; stigmas 

 capitate. Fruit an oblate capsule, •IS in. wide. 



JoHOKE : near the town, parasitic on Hygrophila qiiadrivalvis, 

 Bidley 9161 ! 



Closely related to C. chinensis, from which it difiers in having the sepals without 

 keels, and of which the writer believes it to be a form. 



2. Eeycibe, Eoxb. 



Shrubs, scandent or diffuse, less often erect ; rarely trees. Leaves 

 alternate, elliptic, entire, coriaceous. Flotvers rather small ; cymes in 

 axillary or terminal panicles or racemes ; bracts lanceolate, small. 

 Sepals 5, small, sub-equal, orbicular, coriaceous, adpressed to base of 

 fruit. Corolla rather small, white or yellowish, sub-rotate ; tube lursute 

 externally ; limb 5-lobed, the lobes obcordate, induplicate-contorted in 

 bud, with a thicker triangular centre externally hirsute, and sub- 

 membranous semicordate margins glabrous on both sides. Stameiis 

 5, sub-included, adnate to throat of corolla ; filaments short ; anthers 

 ovate-lanceolate. Ovary globose, 1-celled ; ovules 4 ; stigma large, 

 sessile, sub-globose or conic, 5- or 10-ridged. Fruit a fleshy, leathery 

 or woody berry, ovoid or ellipsoid. Seed solitary, glabrous ; albumen 

 scanty, intruded between folds of fleshy cotyledons. — Disteib. Species 

 about 30; throughout S.E. Asia. 



Leaves more or less pubescent beneath : — 



Pubescence on under surfaces of leaves persistent : — 



Branches angular ; bark fissured ; pubescence on under side 



of leaves black, closely adpressed ; leaves with acuminate 



tips, the lateral nerves in 5 pairs, obliquely ascending, 



hardly visible above . . . . . . . . 1. E. strigosa. 



Branches cylindric ; bark not fissured : pubescence on under 



surface of leaves not adpressed, brown or tawny ; leaves 



obtuse, the lateral nerves in 12 to 15 pairs, spreadingnot very 



oblique ; fruit velvety . . . . . . . . 2. E. magnifica. 



Pubescence on under surface of leaves usually disappearing, 

 except from the midrib, as the leaves become old ; branches 

 with fissured bark : — 



Flowers in pyramidal terminal panicles, the panicle branches 



subtended by foliaceous bracts . , . . . . 3. £. expansa. 



Flowers in axillary cymes, or if passing into a terminal 



panicle the panicle branches not subtended by fohaceous 



bracts : — 



