Flora of the Malayan Peninsula. 293 



out. Prain Journ. As. Soc. Beng. LXV. 2. 536 ; Hallier f . Bull. Herb 

 Boiss. V. 739. 



Peeak : in open forest in rocky localities, at 500 to 800 feet elevation, 

 King's Collector 6445 ! Singapobe : garden jungle, Bidley 6043 ! 

 Eullett ! 



9. Erycibe sapotacea, Hallier f. & Prain Journ. As. Soc. Beng. 

 LXXIII. 2. 16. A tree (?) ; branches slightly angled, with fissured 

 Lark, quite glabrous. Leaves elliptic, base cuneate, apex abruptly 

 shortly acuminate with tip obtuse ; 5 in. long, 2 to 2-25 in. wide ; 

 firmly coriaceous ; quite glabrous on both sides ; bright green and glossy 

 above, pale beneath ; lateral nerves 6 pairs, distinct above and rather 

 prominent beneath, secondary reticulate venation very distinct on both 

 surfaces ; petiole "5 in. long, glabrous. Floiuers in few-flowered con- 

 gested, axillary subsessile cymes. Sejpals and Corolla not seen. Fruit 

 ovoid, quite glabrous, the epicarp very coriaceous, almost woody, 

 wrinkled and fissured, with a rounded base and conical pointed apex, 

 2 in. long, 1 in. in diam. ; fruiting pedicels -3 in. long, with epidermis 

 fissured like that on the branches. 



Penang : Government Hill, Curtis 172 ! 



A very distinct and striking species, the flowers of which are as yet unknown. In 

 shape the fruit is most Uke that of E. Griffithii, but besides being about twice the size 

 it has none of the scurfy covering of the fruit of that species. The leaves of the two 

 are very different. 



10. Erycibe Stapfiana, Prain Journ. As. Soc. Beng. LXIII. 2. 87. 

 A shrubby or slender climber, sometimes 80 to 100 feet long; much 

 branched ; branches and glabrous branchlets cylindric. Leaves usually 

 oblong or elliptic, rarely narrowly lanceolate, narrowed to a cuneate or 

 narrowly truncate base, apex shortly acuminate with a blunt tip ; 4 to 

 7 in. long, 2 to 3 in. wide ; coriaceous ; glabrous ; dark green and glossy 

 above, paler beneath ; lateral nerves 4 to 6 pairs, ascending obliquely, 

 the lowest pairs extending more than half-way along the margin, the 

 secondary veins retieulately raised beneath, visible but not conspicuous 

 above ; petiole -25 in. long, glabrous. Flowers in clustered axillary 

 cymes '5 to 2 in. long, in fascicles of 4 to 9 from a woody protuberance, 

 each 5-20-flowered ; peduncles densely dark-brown-tomentose, as are 

 the bracteolate pedicels, -1 to -15 in. long. Sepals orbicular, densely 

 brown-tomentose. Corolla waxy-white within, -5 in. across; lobes 

 narrow ; interlobular spaces very dark-brown-tomentose (nearly black — 

 Kunstler) externally; lobules narrow, divergent, slightly crenulate along 

 the obliquely truncate apex. Fruit ovoid, -6 to -8 in. long, -5 in. in 

 •diam., densely clothed with a fine dark-brown velvety tomentum. 

 HaUier f. Bull. Herb. Boiss. V. 738. 



