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short stalks, sepals resembling' those of the male flower) 

 Pistil cylindric, stigma capitate. Berry (hardly ripe) 

 flask-shaped beaked 3 4 inch Ion*, stigma flat warty. 

 Padang Batu. Not uncommon but producing very few 

 flowers. The plant is remarkable for its thick small 

 leaves quite veinless except for the midrib which is elevat- 

 ed on the upper surface and impressed on the lower. The 

 flowers too are remarkably small, the smallest known to 

 me in the genus, greenish yellow and solitary on the ends 

 of the branches. 



Aimeslea crassipes Hook. fil. (Ternstroemiacese). A small 

 straggling tree or large bush with leathery leaves and 

 large white flowers, common all over the top of Gunong 

 Ledang and Gunong Mering. Also met with in hills in 

 Perak. 



Adinandra dumosa Jack. This common lowland tree occurs on 

 Padang Batu. 



Arckytea Vahlii var. Shrub on Padang Batu. Common in the 

 low country. The form here is more stunted with bare 

 corky white stems, the leaves crowded at the tops of the 

 branches and the flowers on shorter stalks. 



Craioxylon microphyllum (Ilypericineai). A shrub growing on 

 rocks at Padang Batu also on Gunong Mering. It is 

 found also in Lingga and in Borneo at Sitam. (Dr. Havi- 

 land). This has not hitherto been recorded from the 

 peninsula. 



Elaeocarpus Mastersii King (Tiliaceae). A shrub here quite dwarf. 

 the leaves are smaller than in the lowland form and the 

 nerves finely reticulate. 



Impatiehs Grijjiihii Hook. (Balsaminece). A pretty pink balsam 

 with slender red straggling stems common in damp massy 

 spots. 



Lvonantltes reticulata Jack (Lineoe). A small tree on Gunong 

 Mering and Padang Batu. It attains a considerable size 

 in low country where it is common. 



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