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Elaeocarpus MastersiU King. (Tiliaceae). 



A small bushy tree, the leaves are rather small and 

 more coriaceous than in the typical lowland form. 

 Common in open country in the Peninsula. 



Rhodoleia Teysmanni, Miq. (Hamamelideae). 



This beautiful bush with its heads of rose-pink 

 flowers is abundant on the rocks on both sides of the 

 ridge. It is a high mountain plant occurring on the dryer 

 mountains at 3,000 to 5,000 feet altitude. I have never 

 seen it at such a low altitude elsewhere. 



Pygeum Hookerianum, King. (Rosaceae). 



The bush here has smaller and narrower leaves than 

 usual. Not rare in the low country. 



Carallia euryoides, Ridl. Flora Mai. Pen. 1, 1922, p. 698. 

 (Legnotidae) . 



A small tree, branches slender, black with prominent 

 nodes, leafy at the top only. Leaves coriaceous, elliptic 

 acuminate with a long blunt point, base cuneate, edge 

 serrulate, 1.75 in. long, .5 in. wide; nerves 7 pairs strongly 

 inarching, hardly invisible above; petiole .25 in. long. 

 Cymes axillary, .25 in. long, of 3 flowers, or compound of 

 3 branches with 2 flowers on each; pedicels .1 in, long. 

 Flowers .12 in. long. Calyx urn-shaped with 5 coriaceous 

 lanceolate acute lobes. Petals very narrow linear 5, as 

 long as the sepals. Stamens 10, the outer series slightly 

 longer than the inner row, about as long as the sepals, 

 the filaments rather thick; anthers elliptic. Style stout 

 as long as the sepals; stigma rather large pulvinate. 

 Fruit small, ovoid with the persistent triangular lanceo- 

 late sepals. On rocks about 1,000 feet altitude. Not 

 common. Allied to C. Scortechinii King, and montana 

 Ridl., but the leaves are entirely diff'erent with the general 

 appearance of those of Eurya acuminata. This set of 

 Carallias is typically montane and very distinct from the 

 much larger leaved lowland species which also have 

 larger cymes. 



Boeckea frutescens. (Myrtaceae). 



Perhaps the most abundant and conspicuous shrub 

 on the rocks. This plant is typically a high mountain 

 plant of the dryer mountains such as Gunong Tahan, 

 Mount Ophir and Kedah Peak at 3 to 4,000 feet altitude 

 and is absent from the wetter mountain forests of the 

 main chain ^ and from Penang. Its occurence on Klang 



1. It occurs freely on Gunong Terbakar near Gunong Beruni- 

 ban in the main range, Perak-Pahang boundary, where there is 

 a heavy rainfall. H.C.R, 



