24 A SCIENTIFIC EXPEDITION TO TEMENGOH. 
They have small imbricate sepals, hairy on the edge, 
ovategreen. Themaleshave anumber of yellow stamens 
surrounded at the base by a yellow ring shaped disc. 
The female flowers have sepals and disc as in the male, 
but instead of the stamens a flask shaped pistil, the 
style cylindric red stout, and 4 connate styles, free 
only at the tip, with capitate stigmas. The. fruit is 
globose and about as big as a twelve-bore bullet, dark 
brown red, the colour of a red gooseberry with a 
quantity of greenish yellow pulp surrounded 4 or 5 
flat seeds. 
This is the best of the eating Rukams. The fruit 
when gathered is very astringent and firm in texture, 
but after rolling it about in the hands it becomes soft 
and sweet, all astringency disappearing. It occurs in 
villages all over the peninsula. 
TERNSTROEMIACEAE. 
Sarawa nudiflora, De C. Temengoh. 
S. tristyla, De C. Ulu Temengoh. 
DIPTEROCARPEAE. 
Scarce in this region. 
Shorea leprosula, Miqu. Common in Ulu Temengoh woods. 
MALVACEAE. 
Sida carpinifolia, L. Village weed, Ulu Temengoh. 
Urena lobata var, stnuata. Common at Ulu Temengoh. 
Hibiscus floccosus, Mart. On the road to Grit. A tall 
tree in flower. 
H. tiliaceus, L. Common in the village at Ulu Temengoh, 
and used for fencing. It is not usual to find it so far 
inland and it may have been introduced. 
Jour. Straits Branch 
