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and conical pointed apex, 2 in. long, 1 in. in diam. ; fruiting pedicels '3 

 in. long, with epidermis fissured like that of the branches. 

 Penanq: Government Hill, Curtis 772 ! 



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

 In shape the fruit is most like 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. 



6. Erycibe citriniflora Grriff. Notul. iv. 284. A small tree, 10-20 

 feet high, with strong straggling shoots ; branches terete with numerous 

 lenticels, glabrous, bark not fissured ; branchlets terete or faintly angu- 

 lar, finely rusty-puberulous ; leaves obovate- lanceolate, narrowed from 

 the middle or beyond to the cuneate base, rounded or gradually narrow- 

 ed to a shortly acuminate apex with obtuse tip ; 6-8 in. long, 2-3*5 in. 

 wide ; coriaceous, quite glabrous on both sides ; lateral nerves 7-8 pairs, 

 very faintly impressed above, prominently subalately raised beneath ; 

 secondary reticulate venation visible but not distinct above, hardly dis- 

 cernible beneath ; petiole '2 in. long, finely puberulous. Flowers in 

 small 12-20-flowered axillary cymes, '5 in. across, in clusters of 3-5 ; 

 peduncles •2-*5 in. long, closely rusty-pubescent ; pedicels '1 in. long 

 closely rusty-pubescent as are the lanceolate bracteoles. Sepals orbicu- 

 lar, rusty-pubescent. Corolla creamy yellow within, " smelling exactly 

 like unripe white turnips" (Proudlock), 'S in. across, glabrous within; 

 lobes rather wide; interlobular spaces closely yellowish-brown pube- 

 scent externally ; lobules ovate, slightly crenulate on their outer margins. 

 E. glomerata Clarke in Hook. f. Flor. Brit. Ind. iv. 183 in part, not of 

 Bl., nor of Wall.; Prain Journ. As. Soc. Beng. Ixiii. 2, 85, not of 

 Clarke, nor of Wall., nor of Kurz. E. coriacea Kurz For. Flor. Brit. 

 Burm., ii. 213 in part, not of Wall. Erycihe n. 28 Hallier f. Bull. 

 Herb. Boiss. v. 739. 



Tbnasserim : Mergui ; Griffith 5881 K.D ! Proudlock ! Manson ! 

 Pilai, in the Mergui Archipelago, /. Anderson ! Tavoy ; Laso Rocks, 

 Shaik Muqim, 302 ! 



Always growing close to the sea. 



7. Erycibe Wallichii Prain & Hallier f. Bull. Herb. Boiss. v. 

 382. A small tree ; branches cylindric, much verrucosely lenticelled ; 

 branchlets cylindric, dark tawny-pubescent; leaves elliptic or ovate- 

 lanceolate, base cuneate ; apex rather gradually narrowed to a shortly 

 acuminate obtuse tip, 4-7 in. long, 1*5-3 in. wide; thinly coriaceous, 

 glabrous above, dark-green, beneath paler and glabrous except the 

 midrib and main-nerves which even in adult leaves are beset with 

 spreading tawny hairs; lateral nerves 9-11 pairs, straight, very slightly 



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