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H. N. Ridley: Botany of Gunong Tahan. 157
The flowers are in axillary pairs, on curved pedicels § inch
long, covered with short white hairs, as are the calyx and
corolla. The calyx-tube is short and broad, campanulate,
about to inch long ; the lobes lanceolate, triangular, acute, all
very hairy. The corolla rose-pink, is f inch long, cylindric, |
inch through, with short, recurved, ovate, obtuse lobes, hairy
within and without. Stamens 10, included shorter than the
tube; filaments slightly dilated at the base, hairy; anthers
oblong as long, terminated by two cylindric pale-coloured
tubes, truncate with circular openings at the tip; the body of
the anther is 4-grooved, pustulate, red; the connective is
prolonged from the centre of the anther on the back into a
projecting lanceolate flat process. Style long and stout, hairy
for most of its length. The fruit is pink when ripe, and sweet,
but hard and not worth eating.
The plant has only been obtained on these two mountains,
and on Gunong Kerbau 5,000-5,500 feet.
ERICACE^.
*90. PiERis OVALIFOLIA, Dou; Rjdl. op. cit. p. 313. A
large spreading shrub or tree overhanging the streams.
Flowers white. On the Padang.
Distribution. Himalayas, Burmah, Perak, Japan.
*9i. Rhododendron Malayanum, Jack; Ridl. op. cit. p.
313. Very common as an epiphyte and also as a terrestrial
erect shrub on the ridges above Wray's Camp and on the
Padang.
Distribution. Malay Peninsula, and Sumatra.
*92. Rhododendron elegans, Ridl. op. cit. p. 314.
Epiphytic on trees in thick woods, below the Gully and also
in the Padang woods ; not rare, but seldom in flower. The
capsule is \ inch long, the valves lanceolate acute, widest
towards the tip and slightly narrowed towards the base, ^ inch
wide in the widest part.
This pretty species is most nearlj allied to R. cuneifolium,
Stapf, of Kinabalu.
*93. Rhododendron Wrayi, var. minor {Rhododendron
Wrayi, Ridley, op. cit. p. 314). On the Padang and up to the
top of Gunong Tahan. The plant is smaller than the typical
form of Wrayi in every part, the leaves usually distinctly
smaller, and the flowers (wlxich, however, were quite withered
at the time, of our visit) appear to have been not more than
half the size. A plant collected in fruit on Telom ridge in the
Batang Padang district seems to be the same species.
Distribution. Perak and Selangor.
94. Rhododendron jasminiflorum, Hook. fil. On the
camp stream on the Padang and the ridge near Bukit Bandera,
just coming into flower at the end of our visit. The form
more resembles that of Mount Ophir, both in the shape of the
leaves and absence of pink spots in the mouth of the tube.
The mouth is, however, tinted with rose-colour.