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V. sp. Shrub with elliptic coriaceous leaves 1^ inch long- J inch 

 wide with a pair of nerves running- from base upwards 

 from above the mid rib parallel to the edge, fruit g-lobose 

 flattened at the top on slender pedicels; only 4 or 5 on a 

 raceme. Gunong Tunduk. I only found a very little in 

 fruit but it seems distinct from V Bancanum. 



Diplycosia microphylla Becc. (Ericaceae). Common. Occurs on 

 all the higher hills. 



Rhododendron Malayanum Jack. A shrub with tubular crimson 

 flowers. Common up to the top. Occurs on most of the 

 higher hills of the peninsula. 



R. jasminifiorum Hook. Shrub flowers white, leaves elliptic thick. 

 Common. 



Lencopogon Malayanus Jack (Epacridew). Shrub with stiff nar- 

 row leaves, small white flowers, and very small orange 

 coloured fruit. Padang Batu. Griffith distinguishes the 

 Mt. Ophir plant from the sea shore one, under the name 

 of L. ophirensis fJourn. As. Soc. Bengal XXIII 623-650.) 



Myrsine capitellata Wall. (Myrsinece). Shrub or small tree 

 flowers small white, fruit globular small white. Upper- 

 part of the hill. Common in the low country espe- 

 cially near the sea. 



Embelia Myrtillus Kurz. A scandent shrub with small rounded 

 leaves and very small flowers white. Common. Above 

 Padang Batu. 



Ardisia Andamanica Kurz. Gunong Mering- and Ledang\ 



A. oxyphylla Wall. Above Padang Batu. 



A. colorata var. polyneura. Padang Batu. A shrub with ovate 

 acute leaves strongly and finely reticulate on both sur- 

 faces. It looks very different from the low land form. 



A. tuberculata var. ophirensis. Mt. Ophir (Griffith) not seen as 

 high up as Padang Batu. 



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