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Dear Symington, 
I am sending you one duplicate and one 
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mounted sheet, and should be glad if* you can give me 
names for them. They are both from Langkawi and the 
mounted sheet is sterile. However, you may recognise 
it. These, except for P entacme , which was just 
coming into flower, were the only Dipterocarps I 
collected. Exceedingly few trees, unfortunately, were 
in flower, and I shall have to go oack at a more 
favourable time. 
I have one or two interesting things, including 
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what I think is a Lysimachia (Vrimulaceae), which, unless 
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Kerr has collected it in this vicinity, is a new family 
record for the country. Mim usops Slengi v. parvifolia 
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seems to be common and wild in the limestone ridges. 
There are some interesting grasses and Aeanthaceous herbs. 
Practically all the limestone I saw was marked 
Forest Reserve, and there are notices in the resthouses, 
signed by Boswell, stating that orchids are Forest Produce 
and threatening dire punishment for collecting them * 
without a permit. I believe this was very necessary, as I 
was shown places where Cypripeaium used to be common (accord} 
to local people) and where now it is almost impossible to 
find a plant* 
C.F*Symington, Esq., r, /rp 
Forest Research Institute,_ 
Yours sincerely. 
