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APETALAH. 
AMRANTACEAE 
Celosta argentea, lL. Abundant: on the rocks at Kuala Te- 
mengoh. 
Aerua Curtisir, Hook. fil. At Lenggong and Temengoh. 
Cyathula prostrata, Lour. Common at Grit and in the village, 
. Ulu Temengoh. 
POLYGONACEAE. 
Polygonum flaccidum, Meissn. Ricefields at Temengoh and 
at Kota Tampan, between Temengoh and Lenggong. 
Common. 
CYTINACEAE. 
Raffiesica Hasseltc, Sur. 
This fine afflesia was found in flower in the woods 
at Kuala Temengoh and at the upper camp of Ulu 
Temengoh. It occurs in many parts of Perak and is 
collected by the Malays as a medicine. The whole 
flower measures 18 inches across, and the petals are 
of a bright red, brighter in colour than in the figure in 
Veth’s Midden-Sumatra, when freshly opened, marked 
with raised white blotches. The pistils were white. 
It has not been recorded for the Peninsula before, 
although it has been known for a long time. 
J. flaccida, n. sp. 
Herb, with glabrous stems, except the young parts, 
pubescent base nude. Leaves in equal pairs flaceid light 
green, lanceolate to ovate lanceolate acuminate at 
both ends, glabrous, 5 to 9 inches long 1-3 inches wide, 
above minutely dotted, nerves about 8 pairs curved up- 
wards and meeting in an intramarginal vein, petiole 3- 
inch long pubescent winged to the base. Spike term- 
inal erect, subsessile 3 inches long dense, flowers, not 
R.-A. Soc., No. 57, 1910. 
