310 



wings are umber brown above, the hinder pair bluish white in the 

 posterior third. 



All three insects are Indian as well as Malayan, and one, if not 

 the others, occurs in China. 



I. H. BURKILL. 



FRAGMENTS OF MALAYAN GEOGRAPHIC 

 BOTANY. 



No. I. Enumeration of Pahang plants collected by the 

 late A. M. Burn Murdoch. 



On a journey of inspection down the Pahang river in June, 

 1913, the late Mr. A. M. Burn Murdoch, took with him a collector 

 from the Botanic Gardens, Singapore, and obtained the species here 

 enumerated. 



The collecting began near Temerloh, which is 75 miles in a 

 straight line from the coast, and was continued down the tortuous 

 course of the river to its mouth, whence again northwards, it was 

 carried up the coast to Balok. 



Nos. 151-179 came from Temerloh and its neighbourhood. Nos. 

 180-192 came from places on the first 60 miles of this river's course 

 below Temerloh. Nos. 193-2CO, and 301-311 came from the neigh- 

 bourhood of the Chenik river where is a forest reserve. Nos. 312-332 

 were collected below the Chenik river, chiefly about Kwala Pahang. 

 Near Kuantan, Balok and Beserah were collected Nos. 201-224 and 

 Nos. 333-3 SO. 



There is a paper by Mr. H. N. Ridley on the flora of this part of 

 the Peninsula in the Transactions of the Linnean Society of London, 

 2nd Series, Botany, iii., pp. 267-408, enumerating very many more 

 plants than are here recorded; but nevertheless Mr. Burn Murdoch's 

 bundles add much information towards a knowledge of the distribu- 

 tion of plants in the Peninsula. 



There is a further brief notice of the flora of the lower part of 

 the Pahang river in the Journal of the Straits Branch of the Royal 

 Asiatic Society, part 25 (1894) pp. 33-37. 



Mr. Ridley has kindly described the novelties of the collection in 

 the Journal of the Straits Branch of the Royal Asiatic Society, No. 68 

 (1915), pp. 12-14. 



Here after each name an indication is given of the dispersal 

 which that plant has in the Peninsula : and unfortunatey the scanti- 

 ness of our knowledge of the flora of the Eastern side is made 

 evident in it. 



