A, SCIENTIFIC EXPEDITION TO TEMENGOH. 19 
The most important discovery during the trip was a new 
species of the curious genus Stechonewron, one of the Rox- 
burghvaceae. The only species hitherto known is Himalayan, 
and this one is very distinct. The fruit of the genus has never 
been seen, though the type plant seems to be by no means 
rare in India. We were equally unsuccessful with the 
Temengon species, abundant though it was on sandy banks by 
the Temengoh river. 
The flora on the whole had the greatest affinity with that 
of Penang and the northern part of the peninsula while the 
river bank plants were more allied to those of Pahang on the 
East coast. 
Among the new species there was noticed to bea tendency 
to inereased hairiness, notably in Costus velutinus and Cyrtan- 
dra barbata and rotundifolia, Didymocarpus crinita was 
silkier than usual and D. bonibycinum an allied species is also 
a hairy silky plant. The tendency may perhaps be connected 
with the sandy nature of the soil ECT it dryer than in 
most woods in dry weather. 
In the list of plants which follows I have inserted a 
revision of the Melastomaceous section Oxysporeae which 
seem to have been much confused. 
R. A. Soc., No. 57, 1910. 
