TO LOWER SI AM. 103 



Barringtonia racemosa, Eoxb. Lankawi (Curtis 2676J Setul, 

 Muddy forest near the river at Bukit Rajah Wang. 

 (15048). Distrib. Indo-Malaya. 



B. macrostachya, Kurz. Kedah Bukit Pinang, Alor Sta. 

 Lankawi, Burau, Kwala Malacca. 



Distrib. Burmah and Malaya. 



B. aciitangula, Gaertn, Kopah (Fox.) Distrib. India. 



B. spicata, Bl. Kedah, Gunong Geriang (15047) River bank, 

 Setul (15048) Trang (Kunstler.) 



Distrib. Malay Peninsula and islands. 



Carcya arborea, Common on open heath country, Perlis, Kanga. 

 Setul. Lankawi (Ridley) said here to have* 5 been intro- 

 duced, native name " Putat Kedong." 



MELASTOMACE/E. 



Osbeckia chinensis, L. Setul (W. Fox.) Distrib. India, China, 

 Malay islands, absent from the peninsula. 



0. cochinchinensis var. Setul, heaths and pastures. 



This pretty little plant I take to be that intended by 

 Cogniaux by his description in the Melastomacece, Decan- 

 dolle's Prodromus p 331. It is an annual from 2 to 

 7 inches tall, simple in small forms, branched, often much 

 in larger ones. Stems reddish four angled, the leaves are 

 not sessile as Cogniaux gives but very shortly, but distinctly 

 petfoled. The flowers are mostly crowded iogether in a 

 head, rose pink about i inch across. The stamens purple 

 half as long as the petal, oblong obtuse with a short yellow 

 connective process. In the ripe fruit the processes of the 

 calyx disappear and the bristles are seen to be arranged 

 on longitudinal ridges, as they are in the 0. zeylanica. 



Melastoma malabathricum, var. apprcssum, Setul heaths. 



A very showy form of M. Malabathricum with larger 

 flowers than usual occurred at Chupeng in Perlis. 



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