14 i). Prain^— 6^ome new plants from Eastern Asia. [No. 1, 



Som^e new plants from Eastern Asia* — By D. Pratn. 



[Received 3rd September. Read 4th November, 1903.] 



While recently engaged in laying into the Calcutta Herbarium a 

 number of Eastern Asiatic specimens, the writer has found it necessary to 

 prepare descriptions for the following ten plants which are species that 

 were either previously undescribed or imperfectly characterised. These 

 descriptions he now offers to the Asiatic Society. 



OONVOLVULACE^. 



ERYCIBE Roxb. 



1. Erycibe albiflora Hallier f. Bull. Herb. Boiss. v. 1052. A 

 large climber over 50 feet long ; branches angled, puberulous ; branch- 

 lets angled, closely rusty-puberulous ; leaves elliptic, base wide-cuneate, 

 apex abruptly shortly acuminate with an obtuse tip ; 3-7 in. long, 

 r25 — 3 in. wide ; chartaceous, glabrous on both surfaces, dark-green 

 above, paler beneath ; lateral nerves 7-8 pairs, very oblique, ascending, 

 distinct on both surfaces, raised beneath ; secondary reticulate venation 

 very distinct on both surfaces, but especially beneath ; petiole •4-*6 in. 

 long, adpressed rusty-pubescent. Floiuers in narrow but lax terminal 

 panicles of 5-9-flowered cymes ; panicles 8-12 in. long, 15 in. wide ; 

 the rachis and peduncles of cymes •l-*25 in. long, adpressed rusty- 

 pubescent ; pedicels '15 in. long and lanceolate bracteoles rusty-pube- 

 scent. Sepals orbicular, rusty- pubescent externally. Corolla white, '5 in. 

 across ; lobes spreading, glabrous internally ; interlobular spaces exter- 

 nally densely rusty-pubescent; lobes semicircular, margins undulate. 

 Fruit ellipsoid, black, *7 in. long '4 in. wide. E. suhspicata Prain Journ, 

 As. Soc. Beng. Ixiii. 2, 84 (as to the Bootan and Assam plant only) ; 

 C. B. Clarke in Hook. f. Flor. Brit. Ind. iv. 181, partly (as to the 

 Silhet plant only) ; Hallier f. Bull. Herb. Boiss. v. 737. E. paniculata 

 Wall. Cat. 1330/1, not of Roxb. 



SiKKiM : 4-6,000 ft., Hooker ! Ryang at 1,500 ft., King I Rungjo, 

 1,400 ft., King I Bootan : at 2000 ft., King ! Assam : Gauhati, Griffith 1 

 Golaghat, Mann ! Khasia : Mann I Nya bungalow, 2,500 ft., Clarke I 

 Silhet: Gomez-, DaSilva (Wall. Cat. 1330). 



This very distinct species was compared by WalUch with the quite different 

 E. paniculata Roxb., and was sabsequently issued, from Sikkim, under the same 

 name in the Herb. Ind. Or, of Hooker and Thomson | it forms therefore some part 



