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DISCHIDIA NUMMULARIA, В. Br. 
Heath country at Kwala Pahang. 
I imagine this is the plant Griffith described under the name of D. albida, which, he’ 
says, was common on trees at Malacca, as D. nummularia, Br., certainly is. The * Flora 
of British India' gives the colour of the flowers as red, but they are white. Rumph’s 
figure (Herb. Amboin. v. t. 176. fig. 1) evidently represents this common plant, and he 
describes the flowers as * virentes." Тһе leaves differ very much in the length of the 
petiole, which, indeed, is often absent. 
It is a most noxious epiphyte in Singapore, draping and eventually killing trees. 
What I take to be the * D. albida, Griff." of the ‘Flora of British India,’ is quite a 
different plant. It is only recorded there from * Toondook." This is probably Gunong 
Toondook, a peak of the Ophir range. D. nummularia, R. Br., I never saw there; but 
а species growing in that locality fits the description in the ‘Flora’ fairly well, and is 
probably the D. albida of that work, but not of Griffith. 
D. BENGHALENSIS, Colebr. 
Kota Glanggi woods and Kalambalai, near Pekan. 
CRYTOCERAS REFLEXUM, Benn. (Zoya multiflora, Blume.) 
Only met with on Pulau Tiuman, where it was brought to me by а Malay. It is 
evidently a very local plant. І have it also from Perak. Тһе plant is not a climber, as 
stated in the * Flora of British India, but an epiphytic shrub. 
Hoya LATIFOLIA, Don. 
Kota Glanggi woods. 
Н. parasitica, Wall. 
Pramau, near Pekan. 
Н. CORONARIA, Blume. 
Kwala Pahang, Kwantan. 
This is the commonest species of Hoya in the Straits. It very rarely produces fruit, 
but I have found the capsule twice in the same place, viz. at Pulau Tekong, between 
Singapore and Johore. Sir J. Hooker suggests, from the different colours of the flowers 
as described by Maingay and others, that there may be two species mixed here, a purple 
and a white-flowered one; but the diversity of colour as described is only the effect of 
difference of age of the flower. The blossoms, when they first open, are greenish white ; 
they then become of an ivory-white, with a somewhat creamy tint ; a little later irregular 
madder-pink spots appear here and there, after which the whole flower becomes к 
pink and then commences to fade or falls off. 
Н. DIVERSIFOLIA, Blume. 
Kwala Pahang. Flowers rose-colour. 
H. cortacea, Blume. 
Pekan. Flowers yellow. 
