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pore : in hedges, frequent, Kurz 2968 ! Hullett 628 ! 642 !— Distrib. 
Bangka, Sumatra, Borneo. 
5. Erycibe malaccensis, Clarke in Hook. f. Plor. Brit. Ind. IV. 182. 
A stout spreading shrub with straggling branches, or a climber extend- 
ing to 100 feet in length ; branches glabrous, with fissured bark, but 
cylindric; branchlets stellately puberulous, rather distinctly angled. 
Leaves elliptic, oblong or obovate-oblong, narrowed from the middle or 
beyond to the cuneate or narrowly truncate base and more abruptly to 
the shortly acuminate apex with obtuse tip ; 3 to 3-5 in. long, 1-25 to 
l - 5 in. wide ; thickly chartaceous ; dark green, shining, quite glabrous 
above ; paler glaueescent beneath and at first pubescent with a 
deciduous tomentum which soon disappears except from the rusty 
midrib ; lateral nerves 5 to 6 pairs, usually very oblique, rather distinct 
on both surfaces as is the secondary reticulate venation ; petiole ‘25 in. 
long, rusty-tomentose. Flowers in axillary 5-9-flowered cymes, -5 in. 
wide ; peduncles -2 to 1-5 in. long, rusty-tomentose ; bracteoles elliptic, 
fulvous-tomentose, small ; pedicels - 15 in. long, rusty. Sepals orbicular, 
fulvous-tomentose. Corolla glabrous within, white, -35 in. across ; 
lobes slightly spreading ; interlobular spaces fulvous-tomentose exter- 
nally ; lobules ovate, margins slightly undulate. Fruit ellipsoid, purple, 
•75 in. long, - 5 in. in diam. with a faint apical areola, glabrous. Prain 
Journ. As. Soc. Beng. LXIII. 2. 85 ; Hallier f. Bull. Herb. Boiss. V. 738. 
Perak: Larut, King’s Collector 3093! 3180! 3575! Scortechini 
2196 ! Kota, Wray 2412 ! Penang : Maingay 1154 ! Malacca : 
Bukit Labukor, Bidley 3526 ! Batu Tiga, Derry 1042 ! — Distrib. 
Tenasserim. 
6. Erycibe angubata, Prain Journ. As. Soc. Beng. LXIII. 2. 84. 
A robust scandent shrub or a strong climber ; stems sometimes over 
100 feet long and 4 to 6 in. in diam. ; branches terete, glabrous ; ultimate 
branchlets angular, rusty-pubescent. Leaves obovate, base cuneate or 
rounded, apex shortly acuminate or rounded or sometimes deeply 
emarginate (normally shortly acuminate) ; 4 to 8 in. long, 2 to 4 in. 
wide ; coriaceous, quite glabrous ; lateral nerves 5 to 8 pairs, visible 
above, distinctly raised beneath; secondary venation indistinct; petioles 
'5 in. long, rusty-pubescent. Flowers in few-flowered cymes disposed 
in axillary and terminal panicles with angular rachis clothed with dark- 
red tomentum ; axillary inflorescences 1 to 6 in. long, 1 to 1-5 in. wide, 
terminal 7 to 10 in. long, with sometimes floral leaves intermixed ; 
pedicels braeteolate, -25 to -5 in. long. Sepals orbicular, outer stellately 
rusty-tomentose, inner ciliate. Corolla white, -5 in. wide; lobes 
spreading ; interlobular spaces hirsute externally ; lobules glabrous, 
ovate-oblong, with slightly undulate margins. Hallier f. Bull. Herb. 
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