A SCIENTIFIC EXPEDITION TO TEMENGOH. 
Pleopeltis pteropus, Bl. Ulu Temengoh (14223). 
Pl. accedens, Bl. Common on trees Ulu Temengoh, 
Pl. angustatum, Temengoh. 
Pl. tvioides, Common in the Kampong Temengoh. 
Pl. superficcale, Bl. Ulu temengoh. 
Pl. longifolia Mett. Temengoh (14236). 
P. Phymatodes, LL. Not very common Ulu Temengoh. 
Selliguea feet, Hook. Temengoh. 
Loxogranme lanceolata, Sw. Temengoh Woods. 
P.anvoluta, Don. Not rare, Temengoh Woods. 
Zl 
Antrophyum reticulatum, Kaulf. Trees by the Sungei Kertai. 
Vittarta scolopendrina var loxogrammordes, n. var. 
This variety differs from the type in its thin fronds 
18 inches long, and % to # inch wide, flaccid with thick 
end margins, and the slender long petiole 4 to six inches 
long. It has so much the appearance of a Loxogramma 
that I took it for one at first, but Dr. Christ pointed out 
it was a Vittaria and suggested that it was a distinct 
species and might be named V. loxogrammozdes. I 
suggested it might bea peculiar woodland form of 
V. scolopendrina especially as I have also found it at 
Kranji in Singapore Dr. Christ writes “The thin 
fronds dilated towards the tip as well as the insertion 
of the soriferous lines, finally the flaccid tissue not stiff 
seems to me sufficiently different from the Vettaria 
scolopendrina of Trimen from Ceylon. But it is quite 
possible that the plant is more variable than I thought 
and you being on the spot are right not to separate this 
form, you know anyway that the Vittarias are a terrible 
group. The more one studies them the more confused 
one gets. Itisastudy for the botanists of the 20th 
century perhaps even for those of the 21st.” 
Certainly as- Dr. Christ says the genus is very 
difficult ; there are so few definite characters that the 
varieties seem those of degree rather than of detail. 
R. A. Soc., No. 57, 1910. 
