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*33. P. L^TE-viRENS, Grtff. ; Ridley, op. cit. p. 307. 

 Padaiig woods. This form differs from the typical Penang and 

 Perak plants in the larger fruit, which is nearly sessile, and the 

 larger ovate hairy sepals. 



34. Itea macrophylla. Wall. A big tree on the banks 

 of the Teku River, near its junction with the Camp stream. A 

 new record for the Malay Peninsula. It occurs in the 

 Himalayas and the Malay islands. 



35. Weinmannia Blumei, Planch. {Ridley, op. cit. p. 306. 

 Woods by the Camp stream. Common on all the hill-ranges 

 over 4,000 feet. 



HAMAMELIDE^. 



36. Bucklandia populnea, Br. Young trees in the 

 Teku woods at 4,600 feet elevation. 



Distribution. Temperate Himalayas, Burmah, Java, and 

 Sumatra. 



*37. Rhodoleia Teysmanni, Miq.; Ridley, op. at. p. 307. 

 Common on the Padang, a low shrub here. The young leaves 

 are red woolly beneath, becoming white beneath later. 



Distrihtition. Mt. Ophir, Perak Mountains, and Sumatra. 



38. Altingia excels a, Noronh. In the Teku woods at 

 4,600 feet altitude. Flowers white. A new record for the 

 Peninsula. The tree occurs also in the Himalayas and Java. 



RHIZOPHORE^^ 



39. CaRALLIA MONTANA, n. Sp. 



A shrub about 8 or 10 feet tall. Bark black, branches 

 bluntly angled, nodes dilated. Leaves only at the ends of the 

 branches, obovate or elliptic ovate, shortly acuminate, blunt at 

 the tip, cuneate at the base, margin thickened with minute, 

 black, thorn-like processes, coriaceous, shining above, paler, 

 profusely black-dotted beneath, nerves 7 pairs, slender, midrib 

 grooved above, prominent beneath, 2 inches long, ij inch 

 wide; petiole stout, ^ inch long, reddish. Cymes axillary, 

 three-flowered; peduncle ^ inch long; pedicels ^ inch long. 

 Flower J inch long. Calyx-tube funnel-shaped; lobes tri- 

 angular, acute, 5, coriaceous. Petals thin, ovate, laciniate, 

 shorter than the sepals, clawed, white. Stamens 10; filaments 

 thick, narrowed upwards. Anthers ovate, minutely cuspidate. 

 Style thick. Stigma wider, discoid. 



Gunong Tahan, common on the Padang. Also Kluang 

 Terbang (coll. Barnes) and Gunong Kerbau in Perak (coll. 

 Mohammed Aniff). Apparently allied to Miquel's C. floribunda, 

 but with a very much reduced inflorescence., 



MYRTACEiE. 



*40. Baeckia frutescens, Linn.; Ridley, op. cit. p. 307; 

 Antea p. 46. One of the commonest trees on the ridges and all 

 over the Padang. In the open rocky places of the Padang it 

 often takes the form of a prostrate shrublet only a few inches 



