32 AN ACCOUNT OF A BOTANICAL EXPEDITION 



The plant is a softly hairy herb with rounded light green leaves 

 and is about two feet tall and branched. The flowers have 

 more of the appearance of a scrophularineous plant than of 

 a gesneraceous plant, being more distinctly two lipped, the 

 lobes of the lip are violet and the rest of it is white. It appears 

 to be confined to this hill and is the only known species of its 

 genus. The only other plant of this order was the pretty little 

 Chirita viola of which only a few specimens were in flower. 

 Its little blue flowers and large round leaves make it quite 

 pretty. It is abundant and very variable all over the limestone 

 rocks of the region as far north as Setul at least. The small 

 aroid Hapaline Brownei was showing its ivory white spathes 

 on the rocks. A species of Bauwolfia ^R. perakensis) a shrub 

 almost leafless with tubular white flowers with a pink centre, 

 was very attractive ; we got it also at Setul. Huge trees of 

 Crypteronia paniculata grew here entirely leafless but bearing 

 long spikes of small green flowers. Monkies or some such 

 animals had been breaking off sprays and throwing them down. 

 Otherwise it would have been impossible to get any of it. 

 The green flowered orchid with a veined white lip, Eulophia 

 Keithii grew abundantly in clefts of the rocks, its tuberous 

 stems firmly fixed in the cracks. It is abundant all over the 

 limestone rocks of this region. Koempferia elegans was just 

 pushing up its leaves. Some of the shrubs and trees were in 

 flower, but probably at a wetter season more of the herbaceous 

 plants would be up, and more of the trees and shrubs in flower. 

 We returned to the foot of the hill and examined the flora of 

 the woody and swampy land at the base, securing many 

 interesting plants. The well known plant BryophyUum Caly- 

 cinufii was extremely abundant and in good flower. It seems 

 to revel in hot dry dusty spots. A native of Africa it has been 

 introduced probably as a curiosity and has run wild in these 

 dry regions and is also very abundant on the sandy heaths 

 at Kwala Pahang. It is well known to lovers of curious plants 

 at home, from the fact that if a leaf is hung up in a damp spot 

 it emits bulbils from all the notches on the edge, and can be 

 thus propagated. 



Jour. Straits Branch 



