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littoral plants are the relics. There can be little doubt that 

 Mt. Ophir was at one time an island detached from the main- 

 land as Penang is to this day, and it seems highly probable 

 that Kedah Peak may have been similarly isolated. The 

 absence of any real Siamese element in the flora of Kedah 

 Peak in spite of its practically over-looking the southern 

 Siamese rice fields and heaths with their distinctive Siamese 

 flora, has been noted by me previously, and this collection 

 confirms it, although it includes the handsome Bauhinia 

 bracteata, Grab.., a plant of Siam which was obtained in the 

 low country round Gurun. The flora of Kedah Peak is typi- 

 cally Malayan, and it is the most Northern Malayan mountain 

 in the peninsula, unless the Gunong Perak range, quite un- 

 known botanically as yet, should also contain a Malayan flora. 



Magnoliaceje. 



I. Talauma longifolia, Sp. 110V. 



Talauma mutabilh, var. longifolia, 131. Anon. p. $J. 



A shrub io to 12 feet tall. Leaves thinly coriaceous, 

 glabrous, lanceolate, long acuminate and shortly narrowed to 

 the base, nerves 7 pairs, slender, reticulations conspicuous, 

 6 to 8 inches long, 17 to 2-5 inches wide, petiole "5 inch long. 

 Peduncle I-I"5 inch (in fruit) long, appressed, silky. Bud 

 ellipsoid, beaked, appressed, silky. Petals glabrous, oblong, 

 obtuse, cream or pale yellow, 7 inch long, "3 inch wide. Fruit 

 glabrous, pustular 1*5 inch long, carpels about 6, beaked. 



Kedah Peak at 3,900 feet alt. Flowers cream (no. 6040), 

 small tree, flowers pale yellow, scented (no. 6110), also col- 

 lected here by Mohamed Aniff, Moulmein (Lobb), Pungah 

 (Curtis), Java. The narrower leaves and much smaller flower 

 distinguish this from T. mutabilis, Bl. 



ia. Illicium Cambodianum, Hance. At 3,900 feet (6002). 

 Small tree, rosy cream flowers, at 3,000 feet (6089). Common 

 in all mountain districts in the peninsula. 



DlLLENIACEJi. 



2. Acrotrema costatum, Jack. Flowers sulphur yellow, 

 Gurun (6178), Kedah Peak (6067). Common in hill districts 

 all over the peninsula. 



Anonace<e. 



3. Goniothalamus subevenius, King. Gurun (6174). 

 Distrib. Perak. 



Polygalace.e. 



4. Poly gala venenosa, Juss. At 3,800 feet. Common in 

 the hill districts 6035. 



5. Salomonia cau'.oniensis var gracilis. 



Stems slender, simple or little branched, slightly winged 

 with small, nearly sessile ovate leaves above, longer petioled 

 ones below. Fruit with short bristles along the edge. 



