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EUPHORBIACE^. . 



100. Antidesma fallax, Muell. Arg. 



Distrib. — Singapore, Joliore and Perak 



101. Daphniphyllum Scortechinii, Ki7ig. 



Male flowers. 



Distrib. — Mountains of Perak. 



CUPULIPER^. 



102. QuERCus rassa, Blume. 



Distrib. — Mountains of Malacca, Pahang, Selangor, Perak 

 and Penang, from 2,000 to 5,000 feet. 



103. QuERCUS EoBiNSONii, sp. nov. 



Branches stout dark coloured. Leaves coriaceous above brown 

 when dry, beneath silvery, except the brown nerves, lanceo- 

 late acuminate, apex acute, base narrowed cuneate ; nerves 

 11 pairs, elevate beneath, nervules transverse, parallel, 15 cm. 

 long, 5 cm. wide. Spikes erect racemed, numerous terminal 

 8 cm. lonyf on branches 12 cm. long, base (0.3 cm.) nude; 

 rachis scurfy. Male flowers sessile, perianth lobes, six, short 

 dentiform acute pubescent. Stamens, 12, anthers ellipsoid. 

 Pistillode pulvinate silky. Bracts very small. Female 

 flowers on separate spikes ; styles, short, three. Fruit when 

 young with the cupule covering the glans, and covered with 

 short appressed triangular acute processes ; adult, cupule 

 thin, free from the glans_ except at the base and covering it 

 all but the tip, splitting at the top into five irregular lobes, 

 pubescent, faintly vertically ribbed but with no rings or 

 joro'cesses, 1.5 cm. long, glans a little longer, ovoid, tapering 

 at the tip, silky with the three persistent stigmas on a short 

 stjde. 



This seems to be allied to Q. Blii/meanum, Korth. Differing 

 in the silvery backs of the leaves and the absence of any 

 belts or processes on the cupule. 



MO.NOCOTYLEDONES. 



ORCHIDE^. 



104. LiPAEis DISTICHA, Linclley. 



Distrib. — Common in most parts of the Peninsula. 



105. Platyclinis gracilis, Hooker fil. 



Distrib. — Perak and Pahang mountains. 



106. Dendrobium longipes, HooJcer fil. 



Distrib. — Mountains of Perak and SelangoK 



107. Dendrobium cornutum, HooJcer fil. 



Distrib. — Perak and Pahan"- mountains. 



