12 THE FLORA OF MOUNT OPIIIR. 



Boeckia frutescens \j. (Myrtacece). "Daun Chuchor atap." A tree 

 or shrub with rough flaky bark, and narrow setaceous 

 leaves strongly aromatic, and small white flowers. The 

 wood is exceedingly hard and compact, dark brown. The 

 leaves used as tea give a refreshing aromatic drink and 

 are much used as medicine by Malays. It is common all 

 over the lower and the upper part of the range and occurs 

 in most of the hill ranges of the peninsula. 



Leptospermum amboinense Bl. A shrub with stiff lanceolate leaves 

 and fairly large white flowers. Like the last is very 

 aromatic and the leaves are used in the same way. 



Tristania Merguensis Griffith. Pulawan. A big tree with very 

 grey foliage, flowers yellowish. Common. 



Rhodamnia trinervia Bl. A compact bushy form with rounder 

 ovate leaves. It is common in the low lands. 



Decaspermmn sp. A shrub with coriaceous alternate ovate or 

 broadly lanceolate leaves blunt about 2 inches long and 

 one wide, flowers small white, petals five. Fruit small 

 globose terminated by the calyx lobes, seeds 5 hard and 

 bony, punctate, backs rounded, inner edge angled. Com- 

 mon on Ledang. Also occurs on Kedah Peak. I can 

 find no description to suit this species, but as Sir George 

 King will shortly describe the Myrtacece of the peninsula 

 I think it not advisable to name it. 



Eugenia sp. A shrub with slender branches, ovate or elliptic 

 leaves with a long blunt point, an inch and a half long -J inch 

 wide, petiole very short and slender. Cymes terminal 

 and axillary. Flowers small, crowded, with pedicle and 

 tute 1/4 inch long white. Common 



E. Maingayi Duthie ? What I suppose to be this plant was 

 collected on Mt. Ophir by Mr. Hullett. 



Melastoma decemfidum Roxb. (Melastomacece). The beautiful 

 large flowered species common on all the hills. 



M. ■ Malabathriciim var. appressmn. Padang Batu. The common 

 hill form of this variable plant. 



