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BOTANICAL RESEARCH 
XVI, COLLECTING AND NEW RECORDS 
42. In addition to much useful and valuable material collected and ob¬ 
servations made in single day collecting trips into the Singapore Nature Re¬ 
serves and countryside and into southern Johore, the major collecting work 
was carried out during the following expeditions: 
J. Sinclair .. Japan (while on a private visit on 
casual leave) 
13-16/5 
63 nos. 
J. Sinclair 
Luzon Island, P.l. 
21/5-5/7 
390 nos. 
J. Sinclair 
Selangor, Southern and Central 
Perak and Cameron Highlands .. 
7/10-5/11 
143 no*. 
H. M. Burkill 
Pulau Satumu and neighbouring 
islands 
15-19/2 
32 nos. 
Md. Shah bin Hj. Mohd. Nur 
Sabai Estate, Pahang 
23/1-6/2 
110 r\os. 
Md. Shah bin Hj. Mohd. Nur 
and Kadim bin Tassim .. 
Trans-Perak Irrigation Scheme Area, 
Perak, Bota Kiri Forest Reserve 
3-19/3 
104 nos. 
Md. Shah bin Hj. Mohd. Nur 
and Kadim bin Tassim .. 
Bukit Paloh Estate, Johore 
1-15/4 
82 nos. 
43. This opportunity is taken to acknowledge the help given in under¬ 
taking this work: thanks are due to Mr. T. Koyama of the University of 
Tokyo; Mr. D. R. Mendoza and Mr. G. E. Edano of the National Museum, 
Manila; the Master Attendant, Singapore; the Director of Drainage and 
Irrigation Department, Federation of Malaya, and his officers connected with 
the Trans-Perak Irrigation Project; Mr. G. M. Rothwell, Manager of Sabai 
Estate, Pahang; and Mr. W. M. Young, Manager of Bukit Paloh Estate, 
Johore. 
44. The expeditions made by Mr. Sinclair to the Philippine Islands 
and into Central Malaya were chiefly to follow up his study of the Malaysian 
Myrislicacea ?, but at the same time rewarding general collections were made. 
In the Philippines, field work was carried out at Antipolo, Province Rizal, at 
Mount Makiling, Province Laguna, at Sipocot, Province Camarines Sur, in 
the Bicol National Park botanizing as far as the province border with Province 
Camarines Norte; and in Province Sorsogon at Irosin, Lake Agangay and on 
Mount Bulusan, and also on the seashore at Bulusan. Finally a few days were 
spent at Baguio, Province Benguet, with two excursions up Mount Santo 
Tomas, one reaching the summit of 7,482 ft. altitude. 
45. From this collection and from observations in the field, it is seen 
that the flora in the Philippines has many species in common with that of 
North Borneo, especially in regard to ferns, Urticacea:, Euphorbiacea ?, Mela - 
stomacex , Lycopodiacece, Gunnera macrophylla and Equisetum debile. The 
mountain province of Benguet had a number of endemics (plants entirely con¬ 
fined to the Philippines), but there was a trace of Formosan elements too. For 
example, an alder, Alnus formosana was collected on Mount Santo Tomas. 
It was near a public road on the side of the steep mountain and although it 
is not recorded in Merrill’s Enumeration of the Philippine Flowering Plants 
there is no reason to doubt its not being truly native here. The most out¬ 
standing feature of the vegetation in Baguio is the forest of Benguet Pine. Pirns 
insularis. This tree is restricted to the mountains of Luzon, Burma and Indo- 
China. It covers the ridges and slopes of the ranges but has been thinned 
out a good deal by injudicious cutting. 
