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A SCIENTIFIC EXPEDITION TO TEMENGOH. 
acuminate point hairy, a quarter of an inch long brac- 
teoles lanceolate acuminate hairy. Flowers male, above 
tne female, 2 or 3 on a plant white inch across. Se- 
pals oblong obtuse 4 inch long # inch wide. Petals 
much narrower linear oblong half as long. Stamens in 
a round capitulum pyriform oblong truncate above nar- 
rowed to the short filament. Female flower (nearly 
over). Petals and sepals shorter oblong truncate sub- 
equal.. Ovary with narrow triangular wings, 2 celled. 
Banks between Kuala and Ulu Temengoh. 
B. variabilis, n. sp. 
Erect caulescent, whole plant a foot tall, stem gla- 
brous. Stipules lanceolate acuminate. Leaves remote 
long petioled lanceolate acuminate very oblique, apex 
acute, lower lobe large rounded 4 inches from base of 
upper lobe to apex, lower lobe 2 inches long, breadth 
of leaf 3 inches. Upper leaves smaller, and narrower 
quite glabrous of ten purple, or green spotted with white 
or plain, petiole 14 to 3 inches long slender. Cymes ter- 
minal, peduncle slender 2 inches long. Bracts at base 
of peduncle several, papery lanceolate acuminate ribbed 
x an inch long. Male flowers in the terminal cymes 
female on one from a lower axil. Male flowers ¢ inch 
across. Sepals orbicular ovate obtuse. Petals as long 
but narrower oblanceolate obtuse. Stamens pyriform 
truncate. Capsule with three nearly equal low wings 
(not ripe). 
Banks on the track from Kuala to Ulu Temengoh 
not common. The leaves are variable both in shape and 
coloring but most are lanceolate acuminate with a large 
rounded lobe below in a straight line with the edge of 
the very small upper lobe, so that it looks like a lan- 
ceolate leaf with a rounded base with the petiole insert- 
ed at the side. The veins on the sepals are dark color- 
ed in the dry plant giving it a striped appearance. 
Jour. Straits Branck 
