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6, 
10. 
AN EXPEDITION TO MOUNT BATU LAWI. 
smooth polished with broad valves. Perhaps nearest to S. 
tenuifolia, Bl., but woody and remarkable for the curious arti- 
culations of the leaves, from which a rib runs down on each 
side to the next node. 
RUBIACEAE, 
Lucinaea montana, Worth. Batu Lawi, Ulu Limbang. 28.5.11. 
CoMPOSITAR. 
Vernonia arborea, Ham. Batu Lawi, Ulu Limbang. 28.5.11. 
CAMPANULACEAR. 
Pentaphragma aurantiaca, Stapf. Batu Lawi, Ulu Limbang. 
20.0e1 te 
WRICACEAE. 
Rhododendron jasminiflorum, Took. Batu Lawi, Ulu Lin- 
bane. 79 oulble 
Rhododendron lanceclatum, n. sp. Batu Lawi, Ulu Limbang. 
Peale: 
Shrub, bark brown, leaves lanceolate acuminate acute sub- 
sessile, base rounded above smooth shining, nerves 8 or more, 
pairs slender, invisible beneath, beneath paler closely dotted, 
midrib narrow rounded elevate s slightly, beneath broader, dilate 
at base on the upper surface. 3 inches long 14 inch wide, 
petiole very short and scurfy. Flowers 5 or more in a head 
much shorter than the leaves, with numerous lanceolate 
acuminate bracts as long or little longer than the pedicels. 
Redicels woolly pubescent 4 inch long. Flowers campanulate 
# inch long. Calyx distinctly lobed with short blunt lobes 
pubescent. Corolla campanulate with rounded lobes shortly 
pointed 2 inch long # inch wide white? Stamens short 4 inch 
long, filaments long-woolly at base glabrescent above, anthers 
half as long cylindric curved at the tip blunt at both ends. 
Pistil conic “woolly, style short wooliy at the base, glabrous at 
the tip, stigma capitate. A pretty small flowered species with 
scurfy young parts. 
Rhododendron orbiculatum, n. sp. Batu Lawi, Ulu Limbang, 
500 fit. - 28.50 
Woody epiphyte over 2 feet tall, stem flexuous, internodes 
an inch long. Leaves in opposite pairs stiffly coriaceous, al- 
most sessile orbicular or elliptic rounded at both ends midrib 
deeply sunk above, nerves not very conspicuous 5 or 6 pairs. 
1 inch long 2 inches wide. Flowers 4 or 5 in a sessile terminal 
corymb pedicels + inch long pubescent. Calyx very small 
saucer-shaped. Corolla tube cylindric elabrous 1} inch long, 
lobes 1 inch long rounded, half an inch le, Filaments 
slender half as long as the lobes, anthers oblong truncate 
Tour. Straits Branch 
