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28 th January, 
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Dear Symington, 
Thanks for your No./O in F.R.0I should 
certainly like Kiah to accompany Browne to Perak North. 
Holttum will have to approve. He is in Penang, but will 
be back on Tuesday. How long is the trip to last. 
I have been trying to impress on both Md.Nur and 
Kiah lately the necessity of making a note, when they 
collect a plant, of its habitat, whether in olukar, dense 
jungle, rocky jangle, on rocks, in swamp, and so on. We 
have not nearly enough data of this kind, and as you know, 
of the older collectors, Runs tier is the only one who was 
really up to date and meticulous about these things. I 
am thinking of a paper on the limestone flora, although I 
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have little idea yet as to what form it will take. 
However, during the preliminary business of compiling a 
list of all plants collected on the limestone, I have found 
that in very few cases of plants collected by Ridley, 
Curtis and others is there definite evidence on the label 
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that they came from limestone. "Batu Caves' 1 on d>ne of Ridley 1 
labels means nothing, noi* does "Kota Olanggi" or "Gunong 
Sennyum 11 on Evans’ labels, as I intend to confine myself to 
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plants found actually on limestone hills and not ’hear 11 them. 
In this way it should be possible to discover whether we 
are dealing with a lime-constant flora or not. The evidence 
C. F. Symington, Esq., 
Forest Research Institute, 
^e-pong, hM* 
