THE FLORA OF MOUNT OPHIR. 13 



Dissochceta annulata Hook. fil. Climber with rosy flowers on 

 Padang Batu. Common in the low country. 



Medinilla Hasseltii Bl. On trees, the large and fine variety 

 Grifflthii occurs here. Common in the low country. 



M. Maingayi C. B. Clarke. Epiphytic. Common in the low 

 country. 



M. Clarhei King. A shrub with waxy flowers, common on the 

 top of the mountain. 



Pachycentria tuberculata Korth. Epiphytic. Common in the low 

 country. 



Sonerila tenuifolia Bl. A slender herb with rosy flowers above 

 Padang Batu. Also occurs in Perak, Sumatra, Java, and 

 Borneo. 



S. Griffithii C. B. Clark. A very delicate succulent herb with 

 deep mauve flowers, damp spots. Only known locality. 



S. piota Korth. Yerh. Nat. Gesch. Bot. p. 249. PI. 52. Occurs in 

 the depression between Padang Batu and Gunong Tunduk. 

 This is apparently a widely distributed and very variable 

 plant. In large plants the leaves are long and elliptic 

 lanceolate narrowed at the base into rather a long petiole. 

 They are usually green with paler backs, and with 5 to 7 

 conspicuous veins on the back, but the leaves are also some- 

 times beautifully banded on the centre and lateral veins 

 with silver, or again they may be ornamented with white 

 spots. Smaller plants often only three or four inches 

 tall have rounded leaves almost ovate. One of these 

 dwarf forms is distributed in Dr. Haviland's Bornean 

 collection under the number 1284 and Dr. Stapf describes 

 . this in the. flora of Kinabalu as Sonerila maculata var. 

 glabrata but it does not appear to me to be at all related 

 to the plants named Sonerila maculata in Wallich's Cata- 

 logue. (Silhet 4091 B.) nor figured in the Plantce 

 Asiaticiv rariores. 



I have met with the plant on Gunong Panti (Johore). Bukit 

 Hitam (No. 7,321), Bukit Kutu (7,31G a large form) ; the 



