1904.] D, Prain — Some new plants from Eastern Asih. ^5 



of the E. paniculata of the Flora of British India. Recognising [its very marked 

 dififerences it was separated by the writer in 1894 and included by him (Journ. As. 

 Soc. Beng. Ixiii. 2, 84) in E. sulspicata Wall., a species of which there is no 

 Wallichian specimen at Calcutta. At the same time the writer placed what now 

 proves to be the true E. suhspicata from Assam and Khasia with E. Princei WalL^ 

 to which species E. suhspicata is very closely allied. Dr. Hallier, the greatest living 

 authority on the difficult family Convolvulacese, when working at Calcutta accepted 

 the writer's identification of this species with E. suhspicata^ but (Bull. Herb. Boiss. 

 v. 737) threw a doubt on the accuracy of the identification of the specimens from 

 Assam and Khasia mentioned above, that had been referred to E, Princei. Working 

 subsequently in Europe Dr. Hallier made the discovery that these latter specimens 

 are examples of the true E. suhspicata of Wallich ; this being the case, it was 

 necessary to provide a new name for tlie plant which constitutes E. suhspicata of the 

 Journ. As. Soo. Beng. Ixiii. 2, 84. 



It may be mentioned here that among the plants collected by Dr. Henry in the 

 Szemao Mountains of S.-W. Yunuan there are four gatherings of what appears to the 

 writer to be E. suhspicata Wall., the previously recorded localities for which are 

 Assam, Khasia and the Taong Doung Mountains in Burma, These numbers are 

 Henry 10825, 12514, 12739, 13430. 



It may also be mentioned that the same collection contains, in Henry 11863, a 

 gathering of E. laevigata Wall., previously known only from Sikkim, Khasia and 

 Jaintea. 



2. Ertcibe Henryi Prain. A shrub with spreading shoots, or a 

 climber ; branches angled, bark fissured, glabrous ; branchlets angled, 

 glabrous or very sparingly and finely puberulous ; leaves elliptic, base 

 wide-cuneate, apex rather gradually narrowed to a subacuminate 

 apex with obtuse tip; 3 in. long, 2 in. wide; chartaceous, glabrous 

 on both surfaces, dark-green above, paler beneath ; lateral nerves 6-7 

 .pairs, straight not very oblique, visible above, slightly raised beneath; 

 secondary reticulate venation very distinct beneath, obscure above 

 petiole '6 in. long, glabrous. Flowers in terminal panicles passing into 

 the axils of the uppermost leaves ; axillary racemes and individual 

 branches of panicle 1-1'5 in. long; peduncles •25-*5 in. long, sparsely 

 puberulous as are the main-rachis, the pedicels '1 in. ibng, and the 

 ovate-lanceolate deciduous minute bracts and bracteoles. Sepals orbicu- 

 lar, sparingly puberulous externally. Corolla white ; lobes spreading, 

 rather short, glabrous internally ; interlobular spaces externally densely 

 pubescent ; lobules nearly semi-circular, margins entire. Erycibe n. 3 

 Hallier f. Bull. Herb. Boiss. v. 737. 



China: Formosa; Takow, Ape's Hill, Henry 1884! 



3. Ertcibe Forbesii Prain. A small tree with long spreading 

 branches ; branches cylindric, faintly puberulous or glabrous ; branchlets 

 cylindric, adpressed rusty -pubescent ; leaves ovate-lanceolate to lanceo- 

 late, narrowed to the cuneate base and to the acuminate apex with 

 obtuse tip J 4—6 in. long, 1*25— 2 in. wide ; chartaceous, glabrous on both 



