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Flora of the. Malayan Peninsula. 
A small slender parasitic twiner. Floiuers in dense umbellate cymes, 
•25 in. wide. Sepals ovate obtuse, connate below, -1 in. long. Corolla 
•15 in. wide, campanulate; lobes ovate obtuse. Stamens 5, shortly 
exserted. Scales near base of corolla-tube shortly fimbriate. Ovary 
obtuse, more or less perfectly 2-celled ; ovules 4 ; styles 2 ; stigmas 
capitate. Fruit an oblate capsule, -15 in. wide. 
Johoee : near the town, parasitic on Hygrophila quadrivalvis, 
Ridley 9161 ! 
Closely related to C. chinensis, from which it differs in having the sepals without 
keels, and of which the writer believes it to be a form. 
2. Ebycibe, Eoxb. 
Shrubs, scandent or diffuse, less often erect ; rarely trees. Leaves 
alternate, elliptic, entire, coriaceous. Floivers rather small ; cymes in 
axillary or terminal panicles or racemes ; bracts lanceolate, small. 
Sepals 5, small, sub-equal, orbicular, coriaceous, adpressed to base of 
fruit. Corolla rather small, white or yellowish, sub-rotate ; tube hirsute 
externally ; limb 5-lobed, the lobes obcordate, induplicate-contorted in 
bud, with a thicker triangular centre externally hirsute, and sub- 
membranous semicordate margins glabrous on both sides. Stamens 
5, sub-included, adnate to throat of corolla ; filaments short ; anthers 
ovate-lanceolate. Ovary globose, 1-celled ; ovules 4 ; stigma large, 
sessile, sub-globose or conic, 5- or 10-ridged. Fruit a fleshy, leathery 
or woody berry, ovoid or ellipsoid. Seed solitary, glabrous ; albumen 
scanty, intruded between folds of fleshy cotyledons. — D istbib. Species 
about 30; throughout S.E. Asia. 
Leaves more or less pubescent beneath : — 
Pubescence on under surfaces of leaves persistent : — 
Branches angular ; bark fissured ; pubescence on under side 
of leaves black, closely adpressed ; leaves with acuminate 
tips, the lateral nerves in 5 pairs, obliquely ascending, 
hardly visible above . . . . . . 1. E. strigosa. 
Branches cylindric ; bark not fissured : pubescence on under 
surface of leaves not adpressed, brown or tawny ; leaves 
obtuse, the lateral nerves in 12 to 15 pairs, spreading not very 
oblique ; fruit velvety . . . . ■ ■ 2. E. magnijica. 
Pubescence on under surface of leaves usually disappearing, 
except from the midrib, as the leaves become old ; branches 
with fissured bark : — 
Blowers in pyramidal terminal panicles, the panicle branches 
subtended by foliaceous bracts . . ■ . . . 3. E. expansa. 
Flowers in axillary cymes, or if passing into' a terminal 
panicle the panicle branches not subtended by foliaceous 
bracts : — 
