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oblique, raised on under surface, impressed as upper surface ; secondary 

 reticulate venation very distinct beneath, obscure above ; margin of leaf 

 slightly revolute ; petiole tawny-pubescent, '15 in. long. Flowers in very 

 densely congested axillary cymes, about '5 in. wide ; peduncles very short; 

 petioles and bracteoles tawny- pubescent. Sepals orbicular, externally 

 tawny-pubescent. Corolla white, '5 in. across ; lobes spreading, glabrous 

 within ; interlobular spaces externally tawny-pubescent ; lobules wide- 

 falcate, margins entire. Fmit ellipsoid, black, glabrous, '76 in. long, '4 

 n. wide. Hallier f. Bull. Herb. Boiss. v. 738. E. glomerata Wall. Cat- 

 1338; Kurz. For. Flor. Brit. Burm. ii. 2 13; Clarke in Hook. f. Flor. 

 Brit. Ind. iv. 183 (syn. E. citriniflora Griff, excluded), not of Bl. 



BaiiMA : Rangoon, Gleghorn 188 ! Amherst, Falconer 516 ! Mergui; 

 Griffith Cult, in Hort. Bot. Calcutta, "26/9/58." 



The two species Erycihe Wallichii and E. citriniflora are confused under the 

 name E. glomerata in the Flora of British India ; it is therefore advisable to give 

 here fuller description of both. They were not confounded by Mr. Kurz in the 

 Forest Flora of British Burma; Kurz accepted the one with leaves glabrous beneath 

 as E. coriacea, to which it is indeed very closely related though it is nevertheless 

 quite a distinct species ; the other, which is Wallich's E. glomerata, he treated as 

 true E. glomerata. 



The writer in Journ. As. Soc. Beng. Ixiii. 2, 85 (1894) could not, on account of 

 its leaves with nerves pubescent beneath, accept Wallieh's E. glomerata as the same 

 thing as Blurae*s. Unfortunately he tentatively adopted that with glabrous leaves 

 as being possibly Blume's tree, with the result that he provided for the true E, 

 glomerata, which is common in the Malay Peninsula, a new name E. albida. This 

 mistake Dr. Hallier has pointed out (Bull. Herb. Boiss. v. 739) and the rectification 

 of this mistake rendered it necessary for Hallier and the writer to provide a name for 

 Wallich's erroneous E. glomerata. The adoption of the name E. citriniflora for the 

 tree that is associated with E. glomerata in the Flora of British India, but that is 

 different from Wallich's plant, is made in spite of Griffith describing the leaves of 

 his tree as " snbglabrous " only. We have, at Calcutta, examples of both the 

 species collected by Griffith at Mergui, and his description of the distinctive odour of 

 the flowers tallies so well with that of Proudlock that there can be no doubt as to 

 the tree he intended as E. citriniflora. 



8. Erycibe magnipica Prain. A strong creeper 80-100 ft. long, 

 stem 2-3 in. in diam. ; old branches '75 in. in diam., still densely tomen- 

 tose, quite cylindric, with large pith, branchlets '3 in. in diam., densely 

 velvety v^ith a tawny to rusty matted tomentum ; leaves elliptic Or 

 elliptic-obovate, with a narrowly truncate or rounded base, and an 

 obtuse or sometimes retase apex, the margin strongly revolute ; 8-10 in. 

 long, 3*5-4 in. wide ; coriaceous ; upper surface quite glabrous, dark- 

 green and shining, with sometimes a silvery sometimes a rich coppery 

 sheen ; under surface velvety, pale brownish-green, the tomentum longer, 

 looser, and sometimes whitish on the main-nerves ; lateral nerves rather 



