158 AN ACCOUNT OF A BOTANICAL FXPEDITION 



Distrib. Burmah, Moulmein and Mergui, Tavoy, Siam. 



The specific name ferruginea is extremely unsuitable 

 for a plant of which flowers and fruit are of a pale 

 whitish yellow. This plant is very conspicuous all over 

 this district, growing in open places and forming sar- 

 mentose bubhes. The flowers are small and whitish 

 yellow. The bracts are nearly white, a very showy 

 plant with its great masses of bracts. 



S. triflora, Wight. Lankawi (Fox). 



Distrib. Whole peninsula and Sumatra. 



8. pcntandra, Jack. Lankawi, Kwah (Curtis, 2522)? Setul, 

 Bukit Kajah Wang (14947), Bangtapbanoi (Keith). 

 Distrib. Tndo-Malaya. 



Congea tomentosa, Eoxb. Kopah (AnifT), Punga (Curtis, 2969), 

 Bangtaphan abounding in big trees in jungle (Keith). 

 Distrib. Burmah, Chittagong, Siam. 



Avicennia officinalis, L. Kedah, very common at the mouth 

 of the rivers, Alor Sta, also Perlis and Setul. 



Lab i at. e. 



Ortho.siphon stamineus, Benth. Lankawi, Kwah (Curtis), 

 Bangtaphan (Keith). I saw it in an old garden at Setul 

 but possibly introduced. It is certainly not wild in 

 Singapore and probably not in Kunstler's locality in 

 Perak. It is common in cultivation as a drug and orna- 

 mental plant, and known as Kumis Kuching. 



Cymaria dichotoma, Benth. Kedah on Gunong Geriang 

 (14927), Perlis, Bukit Lagi, (14929), Bangtaphan (Keith). 

 Distrib. Limestone rocks as far south as Ipoh and 

 Burmah. Flowers yellow. 



Di/sopJtylla vertieillata, Benth. Lankawi (Curtis). Perlis, 

 Bukit Hangat Besih, Kanga, in ricefields. Distrib. 

 S. E. Asia and Australia. Abesent from the peninsula. 



J), auricularia, Bl, Perlis, Kanga. Distrib. S. E. Asia. 



Jour. Straits Branch 



