A SCIENTIFIC EXPEDITION TO TEMENGOH. 57 
one. Wallich’s A. malayana was based on a Penang 
plant, and the plants from Penang belong to the yellow 
flowered form. 
Gardenia tentaculata, Hook. fil. River bank Kuala Kenering. 
Common on muddy river banks all over the peninsula. 
Gardentopsis longifolia, Miq. Temengoh woods, and Lenggong. 
Petunga longifolia, De C. Ulu Temengoh. 
Webera grandzfolia, Hook. fil. Ulu Temengoh. 
Canthium aciculatum, n. sp. 
A shrub with slender branches covered with fine 
appressed hairs, spines straight needle like brown with 
paler tips half an inch long. Leaves ovate to lanceolate 
acuminate with a long point, base rounded 2 inches long. 
by one inch wide, nerves 6 pairs glabrous, petiole § inch 
long, stipules kanceolate with a long subulate point. 
Flowers small in axillary cymes of 2 or 3 flowers, $ 
inch long, pedicels half as long pubescent. Calyx cupu- 
lar hardly lobed, half as long as the corolla'tube. Corol- 
la tube thick and short, broad lobes 5 nearly as long, 
lanceolate triangular subacute fleshy. Stamens 5 
nearly sessile, filaments very short in the mouth of the 
tube, anthers large oblong with a short point glabrous. 
Pistil; ovary cylindric pubescent, style stout, stigma 
capitate grooved. Dise annular. Corolla tube silky 
hairy within. Berry usually 2 seeded ¢ inch long. 
Lenggong. 
A weak slender branched plant with small incon- 
spicuous flowers. 
Izora opaca, Br. Lenggong. 
I. stricta, var. Banks of the Temengoh river. Flowers light 
orange. 
The plant which I take to be the true Jrora stricta, 
Roxb. grows in forests here and there over the penin- 
sula. IJ have it from Singapore ; Seremban (No. 5004); 
R. A. Soc., No. 57, 1910 
