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Flora oj the Malayan Peninsula. 
Flowers often passing into a terminal panicle; corolla 
greenish ; fruit ellipsoid, black, -6 in. long, -35 in. wide . . 
Flowers all axillary; corolla white ; fruit ellipsoid, purple, 
with a faint apical areola, -75 in. long, '5 in. wide 
Leaves quite glabrous on both surfaces : — 
Flowers in both terminal and axillary panicles ; leaves with 
lateral nerves distinct, but secondary venation indistinct 
Flowers always axillary : — 
Leaves small, never exceeding 1-75 in. long, sub-bifarious ; 
flowers solitary, axillary . . 
Leaves medium to large, very rarely, and never all, less 
than 2 in. long, arranged spirally ; flowers never solitary : — ■ 
Lateral nerves of leaves distinct and secondary reticulate 
venation distinct on both surfaces, or at least beneath : — 
Lateral nerves of leaves 7 to 9 pairs 
Lateral nerves of leaves 6 or fewer pairs : — 
Fruit quite glabrous 
Fruit finely velvety 
Lateral nerves of leaves indistinct, secondary venation not 
visible : — 
Corolla rufous-pubescent internally as well as ex- 
ternally . . 
Corolla glabrous internally : — 
Flowers densely glomerate in leaf axils ; leaves pale 
waxy greenish-yellow beneath 
Flowers in short but open axillary cymes : — - 
Leaves thickly coriaceous ; fruit verrucose but not 
scurfy externally 
Leaves sub-coriaceous ; fruit scurfy but not verru- 
cose externally . . 
4. E. Princei. 
5. E. malaccensis. 
6. E. angulata. 
7. E. leucoxyloides. 
8. E. festiva. 
9. E. sapotacea. 
10. E Stapjiana. 
11. E. preecipua. 
12. E. glomerata. 
13. E. aenea. 
14. E. Griffithii. 
1. Ekycibe strigosa, Prain Journ. As. Soc. Beng. LXY. 2. 536. 
A climber 40 to 60 feet long, with stems 1 to 2 in. in diam. ; branches 
slightly angled with fissured bark, and except along the fissures densely 
clothed with black adpressed tomentum ; branchlets angular with black 
adpressed tomentum. Leaves elliptic or ovate-lanceolate, base cuneate, 
apex rather long acuminate, with tip obtuse ; 3 to 4 in. long, 1'5 to 
l - 75 in. wide; thinly coriaceous; dark green, quite glabrous above, 
brownish-black and densely covered with black adpressed tomentum 
beneath ; lateral nerves 5 pairs, oblique, distinct beneath not visible above, 
secondary venation indistinct beneath not visible above ; petiole 
•75 to 1 in. long, with close adpressed black tomentum. Flowers in 
few-flowered cymes, '25 in. across, disposed in narrow axillary panicles 
3 to 6 in. long, -5 in. wide ; main-rachis angular, densely rusty-pubescent, 
the peduncles of individual cymes '25 in. long or less, densely rusty- 
pubescent, as are the linear deciduous bracteoles '15 in. long, and the 
very short pedicels. Sepals orbicular, rusty-pubescent. Corolla white, 
•3 in. across (but not quite fully opened), the lobes spreading, glabrous 
