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TACCACEAE. 
Tacca cristata, Jack. Not common, woods at Ulu Temengoh. 
T. vespertilio, Ridl. Common under orchard trees in the Kam- 
pong of Ulu Temengoh. 
DIOSCOREACEAE. 
Dioscorea sativa, L. Ulu Temengoh about the kampong. In 
flower. 
D. Deemona, Roxb. In the Kampong, Ulu Temengoh. 
LILIACEAE. 
Chlorophytum orchidastrum, Lindl. Woods by the river, 
between Kuala Temengoh and Ulu Temengoh. 
Dianella ensifolia Ridl. Woods, Temengoh. 
Dracaena terniflora, Roxb. Ulu Temengoh. 
Dy. sp. A very fine tree Dracaena about 30 feet tall, branched 
with erect-branches and large linear leaves, grew at 
the upper Camp, Ulu Temengoh, but bore no inflores- 
cence. It was possibly D. brachystachys, Hook. fil. 
ROXBURGHIACEAE. 
Stichonewron caudatum, n. sp. 
A low herb about a foot tall, with a few branches, 
slender glabrous. Leaves thin elliptic acuminate base 
rounded, alternate, main nerves 3 pairs nervules hori- 
zontal straight finely branched not reticulate, 3 inches 
long, 1? inch wide, petiole 4 inch long. - Inflorescence 
axillary, peduncle filiform 2 inches long. Pedicels 
crowded at the tip 5 slender, half an inch long one- 
flowered. Bracts broadly lanceolate subacute, margin 
papillose 15 inch long. Perianth lobes 4 connate at 
base, triangular caudate pubescent § inch long, purple. 
Stamens 4 connate at the base and adnate to the 
perianth, filaments broad oblong papillose pubescent. 
R. A. Soc., No. 57, 1910. 
