THE FLORA OF MOUNT OPH'IR. 7 



Tristania, hills at 3000-4000 ; sea coasts Singapore etc. 



Melaleuca, „ ; sea coasts. 



Leucopogon, hills ; sea coast Singapore, La- 



buan. 



Dischidia Rafflesiana, Mt. Ophir, ; common on sea coasts. 



Nepenthes, common in the low country near the sea, and in the 

 hills from 2000 feet upwards, absent from forest region. 



Dianella, hills and lowland woods, but especially near the sea. 



Cryptostylis, hills. 



Corysanthes, „ 



Philydrum, sea coasts ; Singapore and Malacca. 



Podocarpus, hills and sea coasts. 



Dacrydium, hills. 



Dammara, hills. 



Lipocarpha microcephala, sandy spots. 



Schoenus calostachyus, sea shores. 



Cladium glomeratum, sea shores. 



Lepidosperma, hills. 



Gahnia tristis, hills and shores. 

 G. javanica, hills 



Casuarina, sea shores. 



The interesting thing about these is that they are quite ab- 

 sent from the forest country between the sea coast and the hill 

 tops, and that they mostly represent a sand loving, or dry coun- 

 try flora. We know as previously mentioned that the denuda- 

 tion of high land at least on the West coast of the peninsula has 

 been of very great extent and that large areas of the plain 



