■288 Flora of the Malayan Peninsula. 



Flowers often passing into a terminal panicle; corolla 

 greenish ; fruit ellipsoid, black, -6 in. long, -35 in. wide . . 4. JS. Princei. 

 Flowers all axillary; corolla white ; fruit ellipsoid, purple, 

 with a faint apical areola, -75 in. long, "5 in. wide . . 5. E. vialaccensis. 



Leaves quite glabrous on both surfaces : — 



Flowers in both terminal and axillary panicles ; leaves with 



lateral nerves distinct, but secondary venation indistinct . . 6. -E. angulata. 



Flowers always axillary : — 



Leaves small, never exceeding 1-75 in. long, sub-bif arious ; 



flowers solitary, axillary. . .. .. ..7. E.leucoxyloides. 



Leaves medium to large, very rarely, and never all, less 

 than 2 in. long, arranged spirally ; flowers never solitary : — ■ 

 Lateral nerves of leaves distinct and secondary reticulate 

 venation distinct on both surfaces, or at least beneath : — 



Lateral nerves of leaves 7 to 9 pairs . . . . S. E. festiva. 



Lateral nerves of leaves 6 or fewer pairs : — 

 Fruit quite glabrous . . . . . . 9. -E. sapotacea. 



Fruit finely velvety . . . . . . 10. E Stapfiana. 



Lateral nerves of leaves indistinct, secondary venation not 

 visible : — 



Corolla rufous-pubescent internally as well as ex- 

 ternally . . .. .. .. ..11. E. prcEcipua. 



Corolla glabrous internally : — 

 Flowers densely glomerate in leaf axils ; leaves pale 

 waxy greenish-yellow beneath . . . . 12. E. glomerata. 



Flowers in short but open axillary cymes : — 



Leaves thickly coriaceous ; fruit verrucose but not 



scurfy externally . . . . . . 13. E. aenea. 



Leaves sub-coriaceous ; fruit scurfy but not verru- 

 cose externally . . . . . . .. li. E. Griffithii. 



1. Eeycibe strigosa, Prain Journ. As. Soc. Beng. LXV. 2. 536. 

 A climber 40 to 60 feet long, with stems 1 to 2 in. in diam. ; branches 

 slightly angled with fissured bark, and except along the fissures densely 

 clothed with black adpressed tomentum ; branchlets angular with black 

 adpressed tomentum. Leaves elliptic or ovate-lanceolate, base cuneate, 

 apex rather long acuminate, with tip obtuse ; 3 to 4 in. long, 1'5 to 

 1'75 in. wide ; thinly coriaceous ; dark green, quite glabrous above, 

 brownish-black and densely covered with black adpressed tomentum 

 ■beneath ; lateral nerves 5 pairs, oblique, distinct beneath not visible above, 

 secondary venation indistinct beneath not visible above ; petiole 

 •75 to 1 in. long, with close adpressed black tomentum. Floiuers in 

 few-flowered cymes, '25 in. across, disposed in narrow axillary panicles 

 3 to 6 in. long, -5 in. wide ; main-rachis angular, densely rusty-pubescent, 

 the peduncles of individual cymes "25 in. long or less, densely rusty- 

 pubescent, as are the linear deciduous bracteoles '15 in. long, and the 

 very short pedicels. Sepals orbicular, rusty-pubescent. Corolla white, 

 •3 in. across (but not quite fully opened), the lobes spreading, glabrous 



