VIII. PLANTS FROM GUNONG KERBAU, PERAK. 



By H. N. Ridley, C.M.G. F.R.S. 



The collection of plants made on Gunong Kerbau in 

 February and March by the Dyak collectors of the Federated 

 Malay States Museum is of considerable interest. A certain 

 number of specimens had been previously brought from the 

 mountain by Mohammed Ariff, the plant collector of Penang 

 Gardens, who visited Gunong JCerbau with Mr. B. Barnard a 

 few years ago. Of the species then obtained a number were 

 re-collected by the present party, but the bulk of the collection 

 forms an important addition to our knowledge of the flora of 

 this mountain. 



Two of the most interesting additions to our flora were 

 Eurya trichocarpa Korth., and Carex Walkeri Arn., both plants 

 occurring in India and the Malay islands and not previously 

 known from the peninsula. There are 25 new species in the 

 Collection, of which the most important are a Vanilla very 

 unlike any of the few Oriental species of this genus and more 

 resembling the South American species, and a handsome 

 new Gahiiia, belonging to a genus well represented in 

 Australia but of which only 2 species were previously known 

 from the Malay region. 



Gunong Kerbau is a peak on a spur of the main peninsular 

 range in the Kinta District of Perak, and is the second highest 

 mountain in the Malay Peninsula, attaining a height of 7,160 

 feet, and being exceeded only by Gunong Tahan in Pahang. 



The present collections were made m Februar}' and 

 March, 1913, and cover the whole of the mountain to the 

 extreme summit. 



The Birds and Mammals obtained have already been 

 listed in a previous number of this Journal (Journ. Federated 

 Malay States M us, y, pp. 2^-2y,igi/\). 



[The present botanical collection, like the zoological one, 

 contains several species that are also common on Gunong 

 Tahan, thongh, as might be expected, several of the most 

 characteristic plants of that mountain- are not represented. 

 H. C. Robinson.] 



Anon ACE AE. 



1. Polyalthia pulchra, King. At 4,200 feet. 



2. Melodonim mantihriaiunt, Hook. f. At 3,500 feet 

 elevation. 



Menispermaceae . 



3. Cyclea laxiJJora, Miers. In fruit. At 4,000 feet. 



