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within; interlobular spaces brown tomentose externally; lobules ovate, 

 their margins sub-entire. Hallier f. Bull. Herb. Boiss. V. 737. 



Peeak : Thaipeng, 500 to 800 feet elevation ; King's Collector 8461 ! 



2. Ertcibe magnifiga, Prain Journ, As. Soc. Beng. LXXIII. 

 2. 18. A strong creeper 80 to 100 feet long, stem 2 to 3 in. in diam. ; 

 old branches -75 in. in diam. still densely tomentose, quite cylindric, with 

 large pith ; branchlets -3 in. in diam., densely velvety with a tawny 

 to rusty matted tomentum. Leaves elliptic or elliptic-obovate, with 

 a narrowly truncate or rounded base, and an obtuse or sometimes 

 retuse apex, the margin strongly revolute ; 8 to 10 in. long, 3'5 to 4 in. 

 wide ; coriaceous ; upper sui-face quite glabrous, dark green and shining 

 with sometimes a silvery, sometimes a rich coppery sheen ; under 

 surface velvety, pale brownish-green, the tomentum longer, looser, and 

 sometimes whitish on the main-nerves ; lateral nerves rather straight, 

 spreading, 12 to 15 pairs, rather distinctly looped along the margin, 

 prominent beneath, deeply impressed above, as is the secondary 

 reticulate venation ; petiole "So in. long, densely rusty-velvety. 

 Flowers in short axillary racemes, sometimes clustered, of close-set 

 2-3-fl.owered individual cymules ; the racemes 1 to 2 in. long ; peduncles, 

 short pedicels and small ovate bracts and bracteoles densely rusty- 

 velvety. Sepals orbicular, densely velvety outside, quite glabrous 

 within, coriaceous, in fruit -2 in. across. Corolla '5 in. across ; lobes 

 shghtly spreading, glabrous within, and waxy white or yellow, narrow 

 and deeply divided ; interlobular spaces densely dark brown, almost 

 black velvety-pubescent externally ; lobules very small oblong. Fruit 

 ellipsoid, 1*25 in. long, 1 in. in diam., densely softly velvety, of a rich 

 brown colour. 



Perak: King's Collector M6^\ 3879! 6721! 



In the first of Ms three gatherings Kunstler has noted this as a tree 50 to 70 feet 

 high, but in the two subsequent ones as a large creeper, which is, from the appearance 

 of the specimens, undoubtedly the case with the first gathering also. 



3. Ertcibe expansa, Wall. Cat. 1331. A large climber, branches 

 angled, with fissured bark, glabrous ; branchlets angular, densely rusty- 

 tomentose. Leaves elliptic or slightly obovate, apex abruptly shortly 

 acuminate to a sharp tip, base rounded or sub-cordate ; 2 to 2-5 in. long, 

 1 to 1'5 in. wide; chartaceous ; dark green, quite glabrous above, paler 

 and rusty-pubescent, especially on the nerves, beneath, the pubescence 

 ultimately disappearing except from the nerves in old leaves ; lateral 

 nerves 2 to 3 pau's, very oblique, ascending; secondary reticulate venation 

 fairly visible above only ; petioles '15 in. long, densely rusty-pubescent. 

 Floivers in rather condensed 5-9-fiowered cjTnes disposed in pyra- 



