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igiS-] H. N. Ridley: Botany of Gunong Tahan. 145
*33. P. L^TE-viRENS, Grtff. ; Ridley, op. cit. p. 307.
Padaiig woods. This form differs from the typical Penang and
Perak plants in the larger fruit, which is nearly sessile, and the
larger ovate hairy sepals.
34. Itea macrophylla. Wall. A big tree on the banks
of the Teku River, near its junction with the Camp stream. A
new record for the Malay Peninsula. It occurs in the
Himalayas and the Malay islands.
35. Weinmannia Blumei, Planch. {Ridley, op. cit. p. 306.
Woods by the Camp stream. Common on all the hill-ranges
over 4,000 feet.
HAMAMELIDE^.
36. Bucklandia populnea, Br. Young trees in the
Teku woods at 4,600 feet elevation.
Distribution. Temperate Himalayas, Burmah, Java, and
Sumatra.
*37. Rhodoleia Teysmanni, Miq.; Ridley, op. at. p. 307.
Common on the Padang, a low shrub here. The young leaves
are red woolly beneath, becoming white beneath later.
Distrihtition. Mt. Ophir, Perak Mountains, and Sumatra.
38. Altingia excels a, Noronh. In the Teku woods at
4,600 feet altitude. Flowers white. A new record for the
Peninsula. The tree occurs also in the Himalayas and Java.
RHIZOPHORE^^
39. CaRALLIA MONTANA, n. Sp.
A shrub about 8 or 10 feet tall. Bark black, branches
bluntly angled, nodes dilated. Leaves only at the ends of the
branches, obovate or elliptic ovate, shortly acuminate, blunt at
the tip, cuneate at the base, margin thickened with minute,
black, thorn-like processes, coriaceous, shining above, paler,
profusely black-dotted beneath, nerves 7 pairs, slender, midrib
grooved above, prominent beneath, 2 inches long, ij inch
wide; petiole stout, ^ inch long, reddish. Cymes axillary,
three-flowered; peduncle ^ inch long; pedicels ^ inch long.
Flower J inch long. Calyx-tube funnel-shaped; lobes triangular,
acute, 5, coriaceous. Petals thin, ovate, laciniate,
shorter than the sepals, clawed, white. Stamens 10; filaments
thick, narrowed upwards. Anthers ovate, minutely cuspidate.
Style thick. Stigma wider, discoid.
Gunong Tahan, common on the Padang. Also Kluang
Terbang (coll. Barnes) and Gunong Kerbau in Perak (coll.
Mohammed Aniff). Apparently allied to Miquel's C. floribunda,
but with a very much reduced inflorescence.,
MYRTACEiE.
*40. Baeckia frutescens, Linn.; Ridley, op. cit. p. 307;
Antea p. 46. One of the commonest trees on the ridges and all
over the Padang. In the open rocky places of the Padang it
often takes the form of a prostrate shrublet only a few inches