292 MR. Н. N. DIXON ON А 
minute percentage are found at any great distance from the sea. А species 
of the Calymperaceæ of unknown origin might be predicated as of coastal 
origin with at least as much certainty as a volcano. They are not, however, 
by any means maritime plants in the sense in which the term is ordinarily 
used ; nor are they in any marked degree hygrophytie, being usually found 
on the bark of living or more frequently rotting tree-trunks. Out of 
140 packets sent by Mr. Binstead from the N.E. coastal region, no less than 
50 belonged either to Syrrhopodon or to Calymperes, a fact which clearly 
marks the firm footing which these genera have in the bryological vegeta- 
tion of that region; nor is the large proportion due to any great con- 
spicuousness on the part of the plants, which as a rule are not of a very 
striking habit, and are almost always sterile, or were at least in the specimens 
of Mr. Binstead’s collecting. 
Moreover, of thirty species of the two genera five were undescribed. Out 
of about 220 known species of Calymperes some twenty are found in Borneo, 
five (including the new species described here) being endemic ; while of 
230 species of Syrrhopodon, twenty-five occur, five of these also being 
endemic. 
Apart from these genera the collection contained several novelties, as well 
as a good many species now for the first time recorded from the island, and 
emphasizing the relationship of the bryological flora with the Indo-Malayan 
on the one hand, and the New Guinea and Oceanic on the other. 
Mr. Binstead’s collecting was all done at low elevations, mostly at 
practically sea-level, and under very difficult and unfavourable bryological 
conditions. The mosses of the dense jungle are for the most part confined 
to the wpper parts of the trees, where they receive a certain amount of 
light and grow among epiphytic orchids. They are therefore inaccessible 
except where trees have been felled, and some of these, which promised—at a 
slight distance—a good hunting-ground, were equally inaccessible owing to 
the impenctrability of the jungle, to great obstacles formed by the charred 
remains of gigantic trunks felled long ago, together with the intense moist 
heat. It is much to be regretted from a bryological point of view that 
botanists who have collected on Mt. Kinabalu have for the most part con- 
tented themselves with describing the “ zones of moss and fog,” the tree- 
trunks “inches deep in moss," and so on, of the upper slopes of that 
mountain, while the number of species that have been actually collected is 
comparatively small. Sufficient material, however, has been studied to 
indicate an almost entirely different moss-flora from that which obtains in 
the lower levels. Thus among the thirty-one species of moss recorded in 
the Flora of Mt. Kinabalu (Trans. Linn. Soc. Ser. 2, Bot. vol. iv. 1894, pt. 2), 
by Mitten and Wright, most of them collected at 5000 feet and upwards, 
only four are found in the 125 or so species listed below. 
Г have included in this paper а certain number of records of mosses 
