A SCIENTIFIC EXPEDITION TO TEMENGOKH. Zo 
STERCULIACEADL. 
Sterculia fulgens, Wall. A handsome tree fairly tall with red 
flowers, nearly leafless in flower. Ulu Temengoh 
woods by the ricefields. 
Helicteres hirsuta, Lour. Kota Tampun and Temengoh. 
Melochia corchorifolia, L. Rocks at Kuala Temengoh. 
Abroma angusta, L. Uiu Temengoh. 
Buttinerra elegans, n. sp. 
An extensive but slender climber, young parts of the 
stem pubescent. Leavesalternate ovate cordate obtusely 
acuminate, lobes rounded half an inch long above 
Slabrous, beneath shortly hairy on the nerves and 
neryules, 4 inches long and three inches wide or smaller ; 
petiole pubescent, 4 inches long. Panicles axillary soli- 
tary or in pairs on slender pedicels, half to one inch 
long. Flowers numerous small red and yellow, in 
numerous small cymes, all pubescent. Bracts small 
lanceolate pubescent. Sepals 5 lanceolate acute 
pubescent outside andin with stellulate hairs. Petals 
shorter base linear, apex 3-lobed, lateral lobes 
incurved rounded, midlobe irregularly rounded: with 
four small teeth and a linear obtuse fleshy curved 
horn on the back. Staminodes oblong retuse as long 
as the stamens. Stamens, anthers elliptic ovary 
hemispheric. Capsule globose # inch long, densely armed 
with straight slender spines half an inch or less long. 
Temengoh islands in the river and at Kuala Kenering, 
scrambling over bushes, also collected by me at Kuala 
Tembeling in Pahang jin 1891, (No. 2569 of my 
collections. ) 
This species is allied closely to B. aspera Colebr. a 
native of Indo-China and the Andamans, but’ differs 
in its smaller stems, and leaves more hairy on ‘the 
back and deeply cordate, and the more slender panicles. 
R. A. Soc., No. 57, I910 
