Flora of the Malayan Peninsula. 293 
out. Prain Journ. As. Soc. Beng. LXV. 2. 536 ; Hallier f. Bull. Herb 
Boiss. V. 739. 
Perak : in open forest in rooky localities, at 500 to 800 feet elevation, 
King's Collector 6445 ! Singapore : garden jungle, Ridley 6043 ! 
Hullett ! 
9. Ebycibe sapotacea, Hallier f. & Prain Journ. As. Soc. Beng. 
LXXIII. 2. 16. A tree (?) ; branches slightly angled, with fissured 
bark, quite glabrous. Leaves elliptic, base cuneate, apex abruptly 
shortly acuminate with tip obtuse ; 5 in. long, 2 to 2-25 in. wide ; 
firmly coriaceous ; quite glabrous on both sides ; bright green and glossy 
above, pale beneath ; lateral nerves 6 pairs, distinct above and rather 
prominent beneath, secondary reticulate venation very distinct on both 
surfaces ; petiole -5 in. long, glabrous. Flowers in few-flowered con- 
gested, axillary subsessile cymes. Sepals and Corolla not seen. Fruit 
ovoid, quite glabrous, the epicarp very coriaceous, almost woody, 
wrinkled and fissured, with a rounded base and conical pointed apex, 
2 in. long, 1 in. in diam. ; fruiting pedicels '3 in. long, with epidermis 
fissured like that on the branches. 
Penang : Government Hill, Curtis 772 ! 
A very distinct and striking species, the flowers of which are as yet unknown. 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. 
10. Erycibe Stappiana, Prain Journ. As. Soc. Beng. LXIII. 2. 87. 
A shrubby or slender climber, sometimes 80 to 100 feet long ; much 
branched ; branches and glabrous branchlets cylindric. Leaves usually 
oblong or elliptic, rarely narrowly lanceolate, narrowed to a cuneate or 
narrowly truncate base, apex shortly acuminate with a blunt tip ; 4 to 
7 in. long, 2 to 3 in. wide ; coriaceous ; glabrous ; dark green and glossy 
above, paler beneath ; lateral nerves 4 to 6 pairs, ascending obliquely, 
the lowest pairs extending more than half-way along the margin, the 
secondary veins reticulately raised beneath, visible but not conspicuous 
above ; petiole '25 in. long, glabrous. Flowers in clustered axillary 
cymes '5 to 2 in. long, in fascicles of 4 to 9 from a woody protuberance, 
each 5-20-flowered ; peduncles densely dark-brown-tomentose, as are 
the bracteolate pedicels, -1 to '15 in. long. Sepals orbicular, densely 
brown-tomentose. Corolla waxy-white within, ’5 in. across ; lobes 
narrow ; interlobular spaces very dark-brown-tomentose (nearly black — 
Kunstler ) externally ; lobules narrow, divergent, slightly crenulate along 
the obliquely truncate apex. Fruit ovoid, -6 to -8 in. long, -5 in. in 
diam., densely clothed with a fine dark-brown velvety tomentum. 
Hallier f. Bull. Herb. Boiss. Y. 738. 
