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5 attached to the petals free portion of filament short, 

 anther-cells separated oblong obtuse. Style thick, stigma 

 broad curved. Fruit 3/4 inch long elliptic narrowed at 

 the base with a curved acute beak. Gunong Mering and 

 Gunong Ledang. Allied to M. elliptica King, a Penang 

 hill plant, but with much more coriaceous leaves with 

 inconspicuous nerves. The leaves vary, however, one 

 form from the lower part of the range has much larger 

 leaves elliptic or ovate acuminate 4 inches long by It? 

 wide, while those from the top of the mountain are much 

 smaller and narrower. 



Eiionymus Javanicus Bl. Close to Padang Batu ; a widely distrib- 

 uted shrub occurring on most of our higher hills as well 

 as in the low country. 



Pygeum brevifoUum Hook. hi. (Rosacea?). A bush or small tree 

 with small white flowers and globular one or two seeded 

 green fruits. Common all about the top of the hill 3, only 

 known from this locality. 



P. Griffitltil Hook. fil. A slender little tree or bush with larger 

 red tomentose branches, flowers small white. Peculiar 

 to Mt. Ophir. 



Weinmannia Bluniei Planch. (Saxifragacece). A tree with pinnate 

 leaves and racemes of pinkish white flowers occurs on the 

 Perak hills also. 



Drosera Barmaiuii Vahl. (Droseracece). Mossy spots on Gunong 

 Mering. The plants here all had green not red leaves, as 

 they have in the lowland district. This our commonest 

 sun dew, occurs usually in sandy spots near the sea and 

 rivers. It is very widely spread from West Africa all 

 through the East Indies to China, Japan and Australia. 



Rhodoleia Teysmannia Miq. (Ilamamdidece). A tree with small 

 pink flowers occurs also on Kedah Peak in Perak and 

 Sumatra. The only other species known grows in Hong- 

 kong. 



