or near the ground. Cultivated in the Botanic Gardens in stiff clay 
it has retained ihis appearance though over 20 years old. In 
Sarawak, near Mount Matang, and Santubong, it attains a very 
considerable height with a bare stem and an irregular somewhat 
flattened top quite resembling in outline a Scotch fir. It flowers 
and fruits regularly in the Botanic Gardens. The slender brownish 
yellow catkins of the male are produced in abundance on the ends 
of the deep green branchlets and give the tree a bright appearance. 
It is a much handsomer plant than C. equisetifolia, but seems to be 
very seldom cultivated as an ornamental plant. 
SOME TIMBER NOTES. 
Mussaendopsis Beccariana ( Rubiacese ) Malabera, a big tree over 
100 feet tall about three feet through with obovate coriaceous deep 
green leaves 6 inches long and nearly as wide, opposite. Panicles 
6 inches or more long, peduncle 4 inches long, branches spreading 
bearing lax cymes of small white flowers, one of each in which has 
an obovate white calyx lobe as in Mussaenda fruit. 
This superb tree occurs in Singapore (Chan Chu Kang, Ridley 
1850), Perak, Goping, Kinta (Kings coll). I have also met with it in 
the Kelantan river, in Siak, Sumatra, and it is also recorded from 
Borneo. It is, however, apparently not a very common tree. 
The timber as sent by Mr. BURN-MURDOCH is light fawn colour 
with very numerous fine wavy rings, and very numerous close rays, 
the pores numerous^ irregular and pften in twos and threes annual 
rings tolerably distinct but very irregular and rather close so that it 
may be judged to be a slow growing tree. Weight per cubic foot 
54 lbs. 
The name Malbera is used in Malacca for the tree Fagraea 
fastigiata a very different tree. 
Cwnpassia parvifolia {Leguminosce).— The T ualang is a well-known 
Borneo tree of great size, and specimens of wood and foliage of the 
Tulang of Selangor sent by Mr. BURN-MURDOCH, seem to belong 
to the same species. In habit the tree resembles much that of the 
Kempas Cumpassia Malaccensis , but the leaves are much smaller. 
The wood specimen sent is much closer grained than that of C. 
Malaccensis and resembles the wood of Merebau. It is dark red with 
rather large poFes single double or in threes ; these are connected by 
wavy pale lines which frequently anastomose, and are often broken 
up into short bits, the rays are very fine and very close, annual rings 
not very conspicuous. 
The timber is heavy 66 lbs. a cubic foot. 
It is altogether a better class of timber than Kempas. 
Parashorea stellata ( Dipterocarpece) “ Chengal.” — This tree does 
not seem to have been often collected, but perhaps is not very rare. It 
occurs in Selangor and Perak, and is a tree loo to 1 50 feet tall with 
a stem 4 or 5 feet fhrough, the leaves are oblong acute or obtuse 
