6S AN ACCOUNT OP A BOTANICAL EXPEDITION 



C APP ABIDE AE. 



Cleome viscosa, L. Lankawi : Kwah (Curtis) Setul. 



Distrib.- World-wide. 

 Capparis micracantha, Dec. Kedah, Alor Sta. Common in 



thickets. Perlis, Kanga ; Langkawi (Curtis); Trang 



(Kunstler ). 



A common thorny shrub, the flowers white, with 

 the two lower petals with an orange yellow blotch at the 

 base, turning deep purple. 



Distrib. Burmah. By no means generally diffused 

 throughout the Malay region, as King states. 



Capparis sepiaria, L. Kedah, Alor Sta, growing with G. micra- 

 cantha, Dec. Trang (Kunstler). 



A scandent bush in thickets very thorny, flowers 

 white. Common. 



Distrib. India, Ceylon, Philippines, Timor, Australia. 



Q. diffusa, n. sp. 



Shrub with slender branches, pubescent thorns 

 hooked very small. Leaves distant thin elliptic lanceolate 

 glabrous, nerves 5 pairs, margins slightly crisped, apex 

 shortly bluntly acuminate 2 inches long, one inch wide; 

 petiole J inch long. Umbel terminal of 5 flowers, peduncle 

 i inch long. Pedicels filiform over an inch long. Buds 

 globose i inch long. Sepals rounded ovate minutely 

 pubescent i inch long. Petals white oblong blunt little 

 longer than the sepals covered with white hairs outside. 

 Stamens about 12. Gynophore filiform half an inch long, 

 ovary ovoid conic apiculate. 



Perlis: Bukit Lagi (15174) on limestone rocks. 

 Possibly a form of C. sepiaria, but I hardly think so. The 

 larger differently shaped leaves and the long stalked flowers 

 in a spreading umbel seem to make it distinct. 



Jour. Strait? Branch 



