106 AN ACCOUNT OF A BOTANICAL EXPEDITION 



SAMYDACE.E. 



Homaliwn Griffithiamim, Kurz. 



Lanka wi? Tanjong Sirih, (Curtis 2506\ Trang 

 (Kunstler) Pedis, Kanga. Distrib. Tenasserim . 



Passiflore^e. 



Pass {flora foet Ida: Perils, Kanga. 



Introduced from South America, now spread over the 

 whole peninsula. 



Adcnia nicobarica, King. 



Lankawi (Curtis 2542) Setul, climbing on the bamboos 

 on the heath; Bangtaphan (Keith.) 



A very small slender plant with very narrow leaves 

 and fruit, very different looking from the Perak plant. 



Distrib. India, Malay peninsula. 



Begoniace^:. 



Begonia (Plat y centrum) Curtisii n. sp. 



Tuberous, stem erect, succulent red, leafy 2 to 8 inches 

 tall glabrous.- Leaves very variable in shape and colour. 

 Ovate unequally cordate oblique obtuse to ovate, lanceo- 

 late, acuminate, 2-3 inches long, 1| to 2 inches wide, dark 

 green to brown plain or spotted with silver glabrous. 

 Petiole l-2iinch long spreading. Flowers in lax terminal 

 cymes occasionally axillary. Bracts ovate caducous, white 

 veined red. Pedicels short red. Male flowers } inch 

 across. Perianth, lobes 4-2 large oblong or orbicular 

 oblong, 2 oblong linear all blunt, white or tinted with pink. 

 Stamens numerous short crowded, connective not produ- 

 ced. Female flowers with 4 or 5 lobes, 3 oblong or 

 subspathulate, one or more linear oblong. Styles 2, nearly 

 free, branched and twisted. Fruit i inch long, 3 winged, 

 One wing obtusely triangular half-an-inch long. 



Jour. Straits Branch 



