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H. N. Ridley: Botany of Gunong Tahan. 157 



The flowers are in axillary pairs, on curved pedicels § inch 

 long, covered with short white hairs, as are the calyx and 

 corolla. The calyx-tube is short and broad, campanulate, 

 about to inch long ; the lobes lanceolate, triangular, acute, all 

 very hairy. The corolla rose-pink, is f inch long, cylindric, | 

 inch through, with short, recurved, ovate, obtuse lobes, hairy 

 within and without. Stamens 10, included shorter than the 

 tube; filaments slightly dilated at the base, hairy; anthers 

 oblong as long, terminated by two cylindric pale-coloured 

 tubes, truncate with circular openings at the tip; the body of 

 the anther is 4-grooved, pustulate, red; the connective is 

 prolonged from the centre of the anther on the back into a 

 projecting lanceolate flat process. Style long and stout, hairy 

 for most of its length. The fruit is pink when ripe, and sweet, 

 but hard and not worth eating. 



The plant has only been obtained on these two mountains, 

 and on Gunong Kerbau 5,000-5,500 feet. 



ERICACE^. 



*90. PiERis OVALIFOLIA, Dou; Rjdl. op. cit. p. 313. A 

 large spreading shrub or tree overhanging the streams. 

 Flowers white. On the Padang. 

 Distribution. Himalayas, Burmah, Perak, Japan. 



*9i. Rhododendron Malayanum, Jack; Ridl. op. cit. p. 

 313. Very common as an epiphyte and also as a terrestrial 

 erect shrub on the ridges above Wray's Camp and on the 

 Padang. 



Distribution. Malay Peninsula, and Sumatra. 



*92. Rhododendron elegans, Ridl. op. cit. p. 314. 

 Epiphytic on trees in thick woods, below the Gully and also 

 in the Padang woods ; not rare, but seldom in flower. The 

 capsule is \ inch long, the valves lanceolate acute, widest 

 towards the tip and slightly narrowed towards the base, ^ inch 

 wide in the widest part. 



This pretty species is most nearlj allied to R. cuneifolium, 

 Stapf, of Kinabalu. 



*93. Rhododendron Wrayi, var. minor {Rhododendron 

 Wrayi, Ridley, op. cit. p. 314). On the Padang and up to the 

 top of Gunong Tahan. The plant is smaller than the typical 

 form of Wrayi in every part, the leaves usually distinctly 

 smaller, and the flowers (wlxich, however, were quite withered 

 at the time, of our visit) appear to have been not more than 

 half the size. A plant collected in fruit on Telom ridge in the 

 Batang Padang district seems to be the same species. 

 Distribution. Perak and Selangor. 



94. Rhododendron jasminiflorum, Hook. fil. On the 

 camp stream on the Padang and the ridge near Bukit Bandera, 

 just coming into flower at the end of our visit. The form 

 more resembles that of Mount Ophir, both in the shape of the 

 leaves and absence of pink spots in the mouth of the tube. 

 The mouth is, however, tinted with rose-colour. 



