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146 Journal of the F.M.S. Museums. [Vol. VI,
high, and varies from that to a bush or, in the woods where the
soil is richer, to a tree of considerable size, with a stem a foot
or so through. The httle flowers are w^hite, with a greenish
ring in the centre, which becomes red when the flowers have
been open some time.
It is visited by the Bombus.
This plant has wide distribution over all our hills, where
they are xerophj'tic, over 4,000 feet. It occurs also as a
sea-shore plant on rocks in Borneo. The distribution is from
China westwards.
*4i. Leptospermum flavescens, Sm.; Ridley, op. cit
p. 307. Common all over the Padang and along the ridges,
forming on the Padang a low brushwood about i to 2 feet tall.
It forms also bigger shrubs of a somewhat erect habit, but
never seems to get as large as Baeckia.
t)istribution. From Australia to the Malay Peninsula at*
high elevations.
* 42. Rhodamnia trinervia, var. uniflora. A shrub
about 12 or 14 feet tall with slender branches, the young parts
silky. Leaves ovate, abruptly acuminate, base rounded, thinly
coriaceous, entirely silky w^hen young, glabrescent, shining
above when adult and white silky beneath, the three nerves
prominent beneath, with about eight pairs of secondary nerves
at rather an
petiole very
acute angle, 2 to
short. Flowers
3 inches long, i J inch wide ;
few or solitary, axillary or
terminal, sessile, ^ inch across, white. Calyx obconic, silky,
with short-ovate lobes. Petals white, glabrous, oblonglanceolate
; stamens short, just protruding from the calyx-tube.
Berry globose, ^ inch long, silky, terminated by the shortoblong
calyx-lobes.
In low scrub at Wray's Camp and on the Padang.
Different as this plant is in appearance and in the solitary
sessile flowers and the silky fruit from the long-leaved tree with
small panicles of flowers and glabrous fruit, I conclude it to be
an alpine form of this species. A shrub from Mt. Ophir (No.
3229 of my collections) much resembles this in foliage, but the
flowers are more
wider petals—in
numerous, pedicelled, and not silky, wath
fact, an intermediate form between the
typical lowland species and the Tahan one.
43. Eugenia Stapfiana, Kin^. A tall shrub or treelet
with bright green leaves and white flowers. On woods on the
Padang across the Teku River. It occurs in the hills of Perak
and Selangor.
*44. Eugenia Pahangensis, Ridl. op. cit. 307. A big
shrub; flowers tinted with pink. The fruit is an inch long,
globose, and dull pink, and occasionally contains two seeds,
Endemic.
45.
Eugenia Tahanensis, n. sp.
A shrub about 5 feet tall ; bark black. Leaves stiffly
coriaceous, c