98 AN ACCOUNT OF A BOTANICAL EXPEDITION 



Distrib. most tropical countries, absent from the 

 Malay Peninsula except in the Dindings. A sand-hills 

 shrub. 



Cassia fistula, L. Bangtaphan (Keith.) Distrib. India. 



C. obtusifolia, L. Pedis, Tebing Tinggi, Kanga. Now cos- 

 mopolitan. 



C. timoriensis, Dec. Kedah, Gunong Geriang. Perlis, Telor 

 Jambu, Chupeng. Lankawi, Kwah (Curtis). Distrib. 

 Indo-Malaya and China. 



C, siamea, Lam. Eoad between Alor Sta, and Perlis. 



Dis-trib. Indo-Malaya and Indo-China. 



Bauhinia mollissima, Wall. Perlis, Besih Hangat, Kanga ; 

 Kasum (Curtis). Bangtaphan (Keith). Trang at Chong 

 (Native). 



Distrib. Tenasserim, Malay peninsula and Islands. 



B. Curtisii, Prain. Terutau (Curtis, 1682) and Lankawi near 

 the lake, (2619). Endemic. 



B. integrifolia, Roxb. Tongkah (Aniff). Distrib. Malay 

 peninsula very common, and Sumatra. 



B, micrantlia, n. sp. 



A long climber over rocks and bushes. Leaves red 

 when-young, adult bright green, ovate, apex bilobed, lobes 

 rounded, base broad, not cordate, nerves 10, glabrous ex- 

 cept a little red hair at the base, and young leaves red 

 silky, 2 inches long 2^ inches wide, cleft at tip i inch long, 

 petiole 2-f inch long usually glabrous. Raceme on a 

 peduncle 2 inches long, rachis elongating to an inch or so 

 red hairy. Flowers numerous corymbosely arranged 

 small, white, pedicel slender half-an-inch pubescent. 

 Calyx, tube as long thicker, lobes ovate short. Corolla 

 lobes clawed i inch long oblong rounded, crisped, white, 

 pubescent on the claw. Stamens longer glabrous. Ovary 

 shorter, glabrous. Tendrils short. 



Jour. Straits Branch 



