out. Prain Journ. As. Soc. Beng. LXV. 2. 536; Hallier f. Bull. Herb Boiss. V. 739.

PERAK: in open forest in rocky localities, at 500 to 800 feet elevation, King's Collector 6445! SINGAPORE: garden jungle, Ridley 6043!

Hullett!

9. ERYCIBE 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 congested, 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 STAPFIANA, 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 blackKunstler) 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. V. 738.

PERAK at various elevations from 300 to 4,000 feet, King's Collector 4015! 4115! 7784! Wray 3371! Scortechini 1793!-DISTRIB. Tenasserim (Parish).

11. ERYCIBE PRÆCIPUA, Prain Journ. As. Soc. Beng. LXIII. 2. 86. A large climbing shrub; branches and ultimate branchlets cylindric, glabrous. Leaves narrowly elliptic to elliptic, narrowed to the cuneate base and more abruptly to the obtuse tip; thickly coriaceous; quite glabrous; 1.5 to 4 in. long, 75 to 2 in. wide; nerves about 5 pairs, curved and ascending, but all very obscure even when dry; petioles 3 in. long, glabrous. Flowers in small, axillary, laxly 5-8-flowered cymes 5 in. across; peduncles and bracteolate pedicels closely rustypubescent, pedicels 12 in. long. Sepals orbicular, the outer minutely, the inner densely closely rusty-pubescent. Corolla whitish, 5 in. wide, the lobes very narrow, spreading; interlobular spaces rufous-pubescent internally as well as externally; lobules small glabrous, narrowly oblong, sub-acute, divergent. Fruit ovoid, slightly rough but not verrucose, 7 to 75 in. long, 5 to 6 in. wide, pointed or rounded. PENANG Government Hill, Curtis 911! 1273! PERAK: Larut, Scortechini!

Father Scortechini's specimens from Perak have the fruit slightly smaller, not at all pointed, and not so distinctly roughened as the Penang specimens, but in all other respects the two plants agree.

12. ERYCIBE GLOMERATA, Bl. Bijdr. 1047. A shrub or a small tree, 10 to 20 feet high, erect, much spreading; branches and sparingly pubescent ultimate branchlets cylindric. Leaves elliptic or narrowoblong, shortly or gradually narrowed to the cuneate base and to the obtuse tip; 7 to 12 in. long, 1.75 to 5 in. wide; coriaceous; quite glabrous; dark green above, waxy-pale greenish-yellow (Kunstler) beneath; lateral nerves 8 to 9 pairs, visible but not raised on either surface or only faintly raised beneath; petiole 15 to 35 in. long. Flowers in axillary very short and closely glomerate 5-8-flowered cymes; peduncles 05 in. long; individual flowers nearly sessile with 3 rusty-pubescent bracteoles at the base of the calyx. Sepals almost glabrous, pale waxygreen (Kunstler), orbicular, margins ciliate. Corolla pure white within,. 1.25 in. across; lobes narrow; interlobular spaces rufous externally ; lobules oblong, obtuse, slightly crenulate at the apex. Hallier f. Bull. Herb. Boiss. V. 382, 739. E. albida, Prain Journ. As. Soc. Beng. LXIII. 2. 87.

VAR. typica; leaves elliptic, 3.5 to 5 in. wide.

PERAK: on Gunong Bubu, 2,500 to 3,000 feet, King's Collector 7373! Larut, Scortechini! PUNGAH: Curtis 2947 !-DISTRIB. Java.

VAR. longifolia, Bl. Bijdr. 1047; leaves cuneate-oblong, obtusely acuminate, 1.75 to 2.25 in. wide. E. angustifolia, Hallier f. Engl. Bot. Jahrb. XVI. 524.

PERAK: Waterfall Hill, Wray 2580! MALACCA: Bujong, Scortechini 1908!-DISTRIB. Java, Borneo.

13. ERYCIBE AENEA, Prain Journ. As. Soc. Beng. LXIII. 2. 85. A very large climber; stems 70 to 150 feet long, 3 to 4 in. in diam. ; branches and densely rusty-tomentose branchlets cylindric. Leaves narrowly oblong or elliptic, base cuneate, apex gradually or oftener abruptly narrowed to an obtuse tip; thickly coriaceous; quite glabrous; 2.5 to 5 in. long, 1 to 2 in. wide; lateral nerves 5 to 6 pairs with a distinct sub-marginal connecting nerve, impressed on both surfaces but especially beneath; petiole 25 in. or less. Flowers in axillary 3-20flowered cymes 25 to 1.2 in. long; peduncles and bracteolate pedicels minutely closely rusty-tomentose; pedicels 12 in. long. Sepals orbicular, closely brown-tomentose. Corolla pale yellow, ·5 in. across, the lobes spreading; interlobular spaces pale brown-tomentose externally; lobules ovate-oblong, their margins undulate. Fruit elliptic, verrucose, grey, 9 in. long, 5 to 6 in. wide. Hallier f. Bull. Hort. Boiss. V. 739.

PERAK: Larut, at elevations of from 300 to 2,500 feet, King's Collector 7337! 8165!

14. ERYCIBE GRIFFITHII, Clarke in Hook. f. Flor. Brit. Ind. IV. 182. A climber 60 to 80 feet long; stem 4 to 6 in. in diam.; branches cylindric, glabrous; branchlets cylindric, sparingly rusty-pubescent. Leaves elliptic, rarely ovate-lanceolate or obovate-oblong, base cuneate or rarely rounded, apex usually abruptly acuminate, less often gradually narrowed to the obtuse tip; 2.75 to 6 in. long, 75 to 2.5 in. wide; quite glabrous on both surfaces, sub-coriaceous; lateral nerves 6 to 8 pairs, very oblique, visible but not prominent above, prominent beneath; secondary venation very indistinct; petiole 25 to 3 in. long, glabrous. Flowers in short axillary solitary or clustered 4-9-flowered cymes 3 in. across; peduncles rusty-pubescent, 2 to 3 in. long; pedicels 25 in. long, rusty-pubescent as are the very minute ovate-lanceolate bracteoles. Sepals orbicular, rusty-pubescent externally. Corolla waxy creamcoloured and glabrous within, 5 in. across, the lobes spreading, narrow and stellate; interlobular spaces rusty-brown externally; lobules narrow acute, their margins sub-entire. Fruit coriaceous, greyish-brown and closely scurfy externally, 1 to 1.5 in. long, 5 to 75 in. wide. Prain Journ. As. Soc. Beng. LXIII. 85; Hallier f. Verslag. Buitenzorg, 1895. 126; Bull. Herb. Boiss. V. 738, 1052. E. Maingayi, Clarke in Hook. f. Flor. Brit. Ind. IV. 182; Hallier f. Bull. Herb. Boiss. V. 737. E. micrantha, Hallier f. Engl. Bot. Jahrb. XVI. 524.

PERAK: Larut, 200 to 300 feet elevation, King's Collector 8191 ! Scortechini! MALACCA: Maingay. PENANG: Gaudichaud 120; Curtis 181 ! King's Collector 1458!-DISTRIB. Tenasserim, Sumatra, Philippines.

3. PORANA, Burm.

Large climbers. Leaves petioled, ovate or cordate, entire. Flowers small; cymes often in large panicles; bracts persistent; bracteoles subulate or 0. Sepals 5, small and narrow in flower; in fruit the outer 3 or all 5 much accrescent, membranous and spreading, usually spathuCorolla white, campanulate or infundibuliform with a wide or narrow throat; limb spreading plicate, sub-entire or 5-lobed. Stamens 5, adnate to corolla-tube, sub-included; filaments linear or filiform. Ovary 2-celled or 1-celled; ovules 4 or 2; style long or short, entire or 2-fid; stigma solitary 2-lobed, or stigmas 2, capitate. Fruit globose oblong or obconic, 1-seeded, membranous, indehiscent or opening by 2 valves. Seed glabrous; cotyledons plicate.-DISTRIB. Species about 10, throughout S.E. Asia.

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PORANA VOLUBILIS, Burm. Fl. Ind. 51. t. 21. f. 1. A large climber; stems and warted branches glabrous, young shoots pubescent. Leaves glabrous, ovate sub-cordate, or sometimes base rounded, apex shortly acuminate, quite glabrous, 2.5 in. long, 1.5 in. wide; petiole 6 in. long. Flowers white, small, in sub-ebracteate cymes disposed in panicles 12 to 15 in. long, minutely tawny-pubescent; pedicels 1 to 25 in. long. Sepals 5, minutely pubescent, in flower 2 in. long, oblong; in fruit 35 in. long, sub-spathulate, all equal. Corolla 3 in. long; tube narrow; limb rather distinctly 5-lobed. Stamens 5, included. Ovary 2-celled; ovules 4; style 2-partite; stigmas small, capitate. Fruit a globose capsule, enclosed in the accrescent 5-7-nerved calyx-lobes, 15 in. in diam. Seed solitary. Lamk Ill. t. 186; Roxb. Fl. Ind. ed. Carey & Wall. II. 40; ed. orig. I. 465; Blume Bijdr. 723; Wall. Cat. 1327; Choisy Convolv. Or. 106, and in DC. Prod. IX. 436; Clarke in Hook. f. Flor. Brit. Ind. IV. 222.

MALACCA: Griffith! King!-DISTRIB. Indo-China, Malay Archipelago.

King's examples are from a cultivated plant; whether those of Griffith be from wild plants is unknown.

4. NEUROPELTIS, Wall.

Large scandent, tomentose shrubs. Leaves ovate or oblong, firm, petioled. Flowers many, small, in axillary racemes or terminal panicles; pedicels distinct, beset by solitary ovate-lanceolate bracteoles. under the calyx, in flower inconspicuous, in fruit greatly accrescent.

Sepals 5, sub-orbicular, hardly altered in fruit. Corolla small, white; tube wide-campanulate; limb deeply 5-lobed, the lobes induplicatevalvate in bud. Stamens 5, exserted or included, adnate to corollatube; filaments filiform. Ovary imperfectly or perfectly 2-celled; ovules 4; styles 2, free throughout, stigmas sub-capitate wavy or obscurely lobed. Fruit a globose, 4-valved, 1-seeded capsule sessile near the centre of the flat, much-accrescent bracteole. Seed globose, glabrous, albuminous; cotyledons plicate.-DISTRIB. Species 2, in tropics of Eastern Hemisphere.

NEUROPELTIS RACEMOSA,, Wall. Cat. 1322. A robust climber; branchlets pubescent, lenticellate, rather dark. Leaves alternate, elliptic-lanceolate, base cuneate, apex acuminate with a narrow longish thickened mucro; lamina 2.5 to 5 in. long, 1.25 to 2.25 in. wide; firmly papery; glabrous except along the midrib above, slightly rusty with a sub-persistent pubescence beneath; lateral nerves about 7-paired, somewhat curved forward, rather prominent and pubescent beneath. Flowers in axillary racemes 2 to 5 in. long, peduncle 5 to 1 in. and rachis rusty - tomentose; bracts small ovate; pedicels 12 to 2 in. long, tomentose, slender, with an ovate-lanceolate bracteole under the calyx. Sepals 5, somewhat connate below, small, orbicular, rufous-villous. Corolla small, campanulate, white, tube rufous-villous externally; limb 25 to 3 in. across, 5-lobed, lobes ovate nearly as long as the tube. Stamens 5, adnate to corolla-tube, exserted; filaments thickened at base. Ovary imperfectly or perfectly 2-celled, rufousvillous at base; ovules 2 in each cell; styles 2, glabrous; stigmas. large globose wavy. Capsule 25 in. long, ovoid, glabrescent, sessile in the centre of the accrescent, orbicular, scarious, reticulate bract 1 to 1.75 in. wide with rounded or cordate base. Seed globose, glabrous, albuminous; cotyledons plicate. Roxb. Flor. Ind. ed. Carey & Wall. II. 44; Deless. Ic. Select. V. t. 96; Choisy Convolv. Or. 109, t. 2. f. 12, and in DC. Prod. IX. 437; Bedd. Ic. Pl. Ind. Or. t. 291; Kurz For. Flor. Burm. II. 222; Clarke in Hook f. Flor. Brit. Ind. IV. 225. N. ovata, Wall. Cat. 1323; Choisy Convolv. Or. 110, t. 2, f. 13, and in DC. Prod. IX. 437. N. bracteata, Griff. Notul. IV. 285. N. intermedia, Griff. Notul. IV. 285.

PERAK: Larut, Scortechini 1483! 1489! 2071! King's Collector 35441 3792! 4370! 6809! PENANG: Wallich! MALACCA: Maingay 1152! 1153! SINGAPORE: Wallich !-DISTRIB. Malabar, Borneo.

5. EVOLVULUS, Linn.

Small prostrate or erect herbs or undershrubs, never climbing. Leaves small, entire, often distichous. Flowers small, blueish or white,