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high, and varies from that to a bush or, in the woods where the 

 soil is richer, to a tree of considerable size, with a stem a foot 

 or so through. The httle flowers are w^hite, with a greenish 

 ring in the centre, which becomes red when the flowers have 

 been open some time. 



It is visited by the Bombus. 



This plant has wide distribution over all our hills, where 

 they are xerophj'tic, over 4,000 feet. It occurs also as a 

 sea-shore plant on rocks in Borneo. The distribution is from 

 China westwards. 



*4i. Leptospermum flavescens, Sm.; Ridley, op. cit 

 p. 307. Common all over the Padang and along the ridges, 

 forming on the Padang a low brushwood about i to 2 feet tall. 

 It forms also bigger shrubs of a somewhat erect habit, but 

 never seems to get as large as Baeckia. 



t)istribution. From Australia to the Malay Peninsula at* 

 high elevations. 



* 42. Rhodamnia trinervia, var. uniflora. A shrub 

 about 12 or 14 feet tall with slender branches, the young parts 

 silky. Leaves ovate, abruptly acuminate, base rounded, thinly 

 coriaceous, entirely silky w^hen young, glabrescent, shining 

 above when adult and white silky beneath, the three nerves 

 prominent beneath, with about eight pairs of secondary nerves 

 at rather an acute angle, 2 to 3 inches long, i J inch wide ; 

 petiole very short. Flowers few or solitary, axillary or 

 terminal, sessile, ^ inch across, white. Calyx obconic, silky, 

 with short-ovate lobes. Petals white, glabrous, oblong- 

 lanceolate ; stamens short, just protruding from the calyx-tube. 

 Berry globose, ^ inch long, silky, terminated by the short- 

 oblong calyx-lobes. 



In low scrub at Wray's Camp and on the Padang. 



Different as this plant is in appearance and in the solitary 

 sessile flowers and the silky fruit from the long-leaved tree with 

 small panicles of flowers and glabrous fruit, I conclude it to be 

 an alpine form of this species. A shrub from Mt. Ophir (No. 

 3229 of my collections) much resembles this in foliage, but the 

 flowers are more numerous, pedicelled, and not silky, wath 

 wider petals — in fact, an intermediate form between the 

 typical lowland species and the Tahan one. 



43. Eugenia Stapfiana, Kin^. A tall shrub or treelet 

 with bright green leaves and white flowers. On woods on the 

 Padang across the Teku River. It occurs in the hills of Perak 

 and Selangor. 



*44. Eugenia Pahangensis, Ridl. op. cit. 307. A big 

 shrub; flowers tinted with pink. The fruit is an inch long, 

 globose, and dull pink, and occasionally contains two seeds, 

 Endemic. 



45. Eugenia Tahanensis, n. sp. 



A shrub about 5 feet tall ; bark black. Leaves stiffly 

 coriaceous, c<bovate-obtuse, rounded at the top or shortly 

 acute, base cuneate, 3J inches long, 2^ inches wide ; nerves 



