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and was connected in the form of cool dry tableland with Mt. 

 Kinabalu on one side and Gunong Kerbau and Mt. Ophir on 

 the other. This tableland was — at least, in part — of granite, 

 for both Kinabalu and Mt. Ophir are of granite. This was the 

 state of affairs in Tertiary times, when this Australian flora, of 

 which we have these few relics left, covered this country. 



PLANTS OP THE MOUNTAIN ABOVE 3,300 FEET. 



POLYPETAL-ffi. 



ANONACE^:. 



I. PoLYALTHiA PULCHRA, Xwo^; autea, p. 42- Woods by 

 the Teku River at 4,600 feet altitude. 



Distribution. Gunong Bubu and Gunong Kerbau, 4,200 

 feet. 



This is here a moderate-sized tree with large leaves, and 

 flowers 3 inches across, pendulous from the ends of the 

 branches, yellowish white with a purple blotch at the base. It 

 differed a little from the type-form in having the base of the 

 sepals on the back and the petals pubescent. The flowers, 

 though large, can hardly be said to be very beautiful, as their 

 colouring is dull ; but they possess the most extraordinarily 

 strong perfume of Magnolias, so powerful that I could easily 

 perceive the odour after the flowers were put in the collecting- 

 book and carried some yards away. 



POLYGALACE^. 



*2, PoLYGALA MONTicoLA, Ridley, Jouru. Linn. Soc, 

 Botany, xxxviii. p. 303 (igo8); antea, p. 44. Common in the 

 woods of the Padang. This pretty shrublet varies in size, and 

 is not rarely branched. The flowers are VA-hite, with the petals 

 deep rose-pink. The capsule is flattened, usually purple when 

 ripe, the small black seeds enclosed in an orange-scarlet aril. 



Distribution. Gunong Semangko, Gunong Bubu, Gunong 

 Kerbau, 6,000 feet, and Benom. 



PITTOSPORE.E. 



*3. PiTTOSPORUM sp., Ridley, op. cit. p. 303. This plant, 

 first collected by Robinson, is not rare in the open woods on 

 the Padang, but no trace of flowers or fruit were to be seen. 



GUTTIFER^. 



*4. Calophyllum venustum. King) Ridley, op. cit. p. 

 304. A common small tree, about 20 feet tall, in open woody 

 places on the Padang, at 5,600 feet elevation. 

 Distribution. Perak. 



5. Garcinia monantha, n. sp. 



A small tree, the bark of the branches grey. Leaves 

 coriaceous, ovate or lanceolate-ovate, acuminate, acute, 

 cuneate, 3 inches long, 2 inches wide ; nerves 25 pairs, invisible 



*Species thus marked occur in the original collection from this mountain 

 (Journal Federated Malay States Museum 11 pp. 107-142 (1909). 



