170 
Kurz collected 596 species of flowering plants in = m - 
of which he regarded as indigenous, an are described as n 
Straits SETTLEM ine Ue this denomination are Mee the 
Island of Penang, the Province of Wellesley on the mainland opposite, 
uA Dindings and Perak, Malacca, Singapore, and the Keeling or Cocos 
slands. 
Although these vH ci were more or less explored by the early Indian 
botanists, ‘there een no separate publication on their vegetable pro- 
ts ; 
urma.’ also gives a list of the plants of Singepene? in the Report, 
cited above, on ree vegetation of the Andaman Isl 
PENANG, or Prince of Wales Isl and, is about me square miles in 
on the mainland opposite, is about 45 miles i in length, by eight to ten in 
Sead 8 y €i 
Matra is situated on the mainland between Penang and pane c 
It isin abont $ 2° 10’ N. lat. and 102° 14’ E. long., and has an area of 659 
square mil 
inudon is an island about twenty-seven miles long, by fourteen 
wide, Tei acing an area of 206 square miles. The surface is undulating, 
and 50 ) feet above the level of the sea. Singapore town is in 
r 16 N. lat. and 103? 53' E. long. ; 
PERAK.— The pro ey State of Perak is situated between 3% 45' and 
5° 29’ N. lat., and 100° 22’ to 101° 40’ E. long., with an estimated he 
i n 
SELANGOR and Suxaxr Usong are protected States met to the south 
. of Perak, the former having an area of about 3,000 square miles, and the 
latter about 660. There are no special reports on the vegetation. 
Keetrne or Cocos Istanps.—A „group of small islands 600 miles 
distant from Java, the Weng land, in about 12? S. lat. and 97^ E. long. 
They contain large plantations of coconut palms, the cultivation y: which 
is the only industry. "Darwin visited them in 1836, H. O. 
1878, and Dr. mI in PA The largest island is about ir ciles 
long and a quarter of a mile broad. 
Henslow, Rev. J. S. Fio Keelingensis : ees of Natural History, 
i., 1838, pp 337-347. Plants collected by Dar 
Hemsley, W. B. Botany of the * Teese ia 4 part 3, 
113. List of the plants collected by Darwin, with remarks on their 
distribution. 
For bes, H. 0. List of Plants observed in the Keeling Islands: A 
Naturalist’s Wanderings in the Eastern Archipelago, 1885, pp. 42-43. 
At the time Darwin visited the there were considerable woods 
up y 
of Cordia subcordata and Pemphis acidula, but in 1878 they had almost — 
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