A SCIENTIFIC EXPEDITION TO TEMENGOH. 89 
ARISTOLOCHIACEAE. 
Thottea parvitlora n. sp. 
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A shrub about 3 feet tall, the stems nearly ¢ inch 
thick, shortly pubescent with stellately arranged hairs. 
Leaves ovate or obovate acute, base shortly narrowed, 
8 inches long or less 4 inches across, above glabrous, 
beneath sprinkled with short white hairs, petiole thick 
+ inch long. BRacemes extra axillary half an inch long, 
hairy. Flowers crowded, appearing singly small violet. 
Bracts ovate very small, hairy. Pedicel hairy 4 inch 
long. Perianth 4 inch across, lobes ovate obtuse, violet 
hairy outside, tube short campanulate. Stamens 16, 
filaments very short hairy, anther oblong extrorse. Style 
2 lobed. Fruit slender 2 inches long ending in a long 
point. 
Temengoh hill woods, very distinct from any species 
known to me by its small pale violet flowers. 
There is really very little difference between the 
genera Thottea and Bragantia and the chief one lies 
in the number of the stamens which is larger in Thottea. 
The greater size of the flowers as a distinctive cha- 
racter fails with Th. parvitlora whose flowers are smaller 
than those of the next species. 
Bragantia tomentosa, Benn. Abundant in damp shady spots 
in the Temengoh forests. 
PIPERACEAE. 
The collection of Peppers in the Singapore herbarium 
have been recently identitied- by M. C. De Caudolle and 
from his identifications I have named the peppers got 
in this expedition. J am not aware that his descriptions 
have been as yet published so that some of these will 
be his manuscript names. 
Piper porphyrophyllum, N. K. Br. Common in the Temengoh 
woods, as it is all over the peninsula. 
R. A. Soc., No. 57, 1910. 
