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A SCIENTIFIC EXPEDITION TO TEMENGOH. 
inches in length bearing 3 or four branches with one or 
more cymes of 3 flowers. Bracts small acuminate. 
Calyx tube 4-angled narrowed to the base, top broad 
4+ inch long and as wide above glabrous, lobes short 
subovate. Petals broadly oblong ovate mucronulate 
4 inch long. Stamens 8, filaments long filiform 4 inch 
long. Anthers as long acuminate upwards all similar, 
base shortly prolonged, no appendage. Style long 
filiform. Capsule # inch long with four thick broad 
valves protruding above the calyx. 
Selangor, Semangkok Pass (Curtis 3753); (Burn-Mur- 
doch, Ridley); Gunong Mengkuang Lebar (F. Dennys). 
A. Robinsonit, n. sp. 
A branched shrub. Leaves coriaceous lanceolate 
acuminate, usually red-scurfy on the nerves beneath, 
otherwise glabrous, base slightly narrowed, nerves 
slightly prominent above, more so beneath 4 inches 
long by one inch wide, petiole half to one inch long. 
Inflorescence solitary terminal peduncle 4 inches long. 
Cymes 3, or more in an umbel. Flowers half an inch 
long white and pink. Calyx tube obconic obscurely 
ribbed red scurfy, lobes short ovate blunt. Petals ovate 
oblong truncate shortly mucronulate short. Stamens 8 
filaments linear minutely glandular. Anther elongate 
acuminate yellow basal lobe short, no appendage. Style 
rather stout and short. Capsule half an inch long with 
long projecting thick valves. 
Pahang, Gunong Tahan 5,500 feet (Robinson). 
This plant seems to have been mixed with and distri- 
buted under No. 5509, Oretrephes pulchra, Ridl. It 
resembles A. grandiflora but the flowers and fruit are 
smaller stamens shorter and leaves different. 
Jour. Straits Branch 
