294 Flora of the Malayan Peninsula. 



Peeak : at various elevations from 300 to 4,000 feet, King's Collector 

 4015 ! 4115 ! 7784 ! Wray 3371 ! Scortechini 1793 !— Disteib. 

 Tenasserim (Parish). 



11. Eeycibe pe^cipua, Prain Journ. As. Soc. Beng. LXIII. 2. 86. 

 A large climbing shrub ; branches and ultimate branchlets cylindric, 

 glabrous. Leaves narrowly elliptic to elliptic, narrowed to the cuneate 

 base and more abruptly to the obtuse tip ; thickly coriaceous ; quite 

 glabrous ; 1"5 to 4 in. long, "75 to 2 in. wide ; nerves about 5 pairs, 

 curved and ascending, but all very obscure even when dry ; petioles 

 •3 in. long, glabrous. Flowers in small, axillary, laxly 5-8-flowered 

 cymes "5 in. across ; peduncles and bracteolate pedicels closely rusty- 

 pubescent, pedicels 42 in. long. Sepals orbicular, the outer minutely, 

 the inner densely closely rusty-pubegcent. Corolla whitish, -5 in. wide, 

 the lobes very narrow, spreading ; interlobular spaces rufous-pubescent 

 internally as well as externally ; lobules small glabrous, narrowly 

 oblong, sub-acute, divergent. Frtiit ovoid, slightly rough but not 

 verrucose, -7 to '75 in. long, '5 to '6 in. wide, pointed or rounded. 



Penang : Government Hill, Curtis 911 ! 1273 ! Pbeak : Larut, 

 Scortechini I 



Father Scortechini's specimens from Perak have the fruit slightly smaller, not at 

 all pointed, and not so distinctly roughened as the Penang specimens, but in all other 

 respects the two plants agree. 



12. Eeycibe glomeeata, B1. Bijdr. 1047. A shrub or a small tree, 

 10 to 20 feet high, erect, much spreading ; branches and sparingly 

 pubescent ultimate branchlets cylindric. Leaves elliptic or narrow- 

 oblong, shortly or gradually narrowed to the cuneate base and to the 

 obtuse tip ; 7 to 12 in. long, 1-75 to 5 in. wide ; coriaceous ; quite glabrous ; 

 dark green above, waxy-pale greenish-yellow [Kunstler) beneath ; 

 lateral nerves 8 to 9 pairs, visible but not raised on either surface or 

 only faintly raised beneath ; petiole "15 to "35 in. long. Floivers in 

 axillary very short and closely glomerate 5-8-flowered cymes ; peduncles 

 •05 in. long ; individual flowers nearly sessile with 3 rusty-pubescent 

 bracteoles at the base of the calyx. Sepals almost glabrous, pale waxy- 

 green [Kunstler), orbicular, margins ciliate. Corolla pure white within, 

 1-25 in. across ; lobes narrow ; interlobular spaces rufous externally ; 

 lobules oblong, obtuse, slightly crenulate at the apex. Hallier f. Bull. 

 Herb. Boiss. V. 382, 739. E. albida, Prain Journ. As. Soc. Beng. 

 LXIII. 2. 87. 



Vae. typica ; leaves elliptic, 3'5 to 5 in. wide. 



Peeak: on Gunong Bubu, 2,500 to 3,000 ieet, King's Collector 

 7373 ! Larut, Scortechini ! Pungah : Czirtis 2947 ! — Disteib. Java.. 



