OF MT. KINABALU AND BRITISH NORTH BORNEO. 3 
1895, collected extensively round the whole coast from Cowie Harbour to 
Gaya and Kimanis *. 
These collections of Motley, Fraser, and Creagh give a very reliable idea 
of the coastal flora of British North Borneo, which otherwise was practically 
unknown with the exception of a few plants collected by Low, Haviland, 
and Burbidge on the way up to Kinabalu, and have proved most useful 
in the course of my work—practically limited to the interior—by forming a 
basis for a study of the relative distribution of plants throughout the 
country. 
By working in British North Borneo and especially on Kinabalu itself, 
I hoped to be able to fill in some of the blanks in our knowledge of the 
phytogeography of this very interesting British territory. 
I landed at Jesselton, the capital, at the end of December, 1909, when it 
was considered too early in the season to attempt the ascent of the mountain, 
not only on account of the rains, which were not yet over, but also because 
the Dusuns, who always act as porters, were busy with their padi harvest 
and would not have been available for that purpose. 
Under these circumstances, and acting on the advice of the Governor, 
Mr. H. P. Gueritz, I decided to defer the ascent and work round from the 
interior, staying first at Tenom for the purposes of general collecting, and 
then proceeding via Kaningau, Tambunan, and Renagong to Kiau, at the 
base of the mountain. 
In all about 1000 plants were collected, of which 87 have proved new to 
science, including 4 new genera ; of these 337 specimens, comprising 3 new 
gencra and 38 new species, are referable to Kinabalu itself, among them 129 
new records as compared with Stapf's list of the Kinabalu plants, 
For Loranthus centifforus, hitherto considered as endemic on Kinabalu, a 
wider range of distribution has been proved. Previously collected at 6000/ 
on Kinabalu, it was now found at Tambunan at 2000'. On the other hand 
Strobilanthes kinabaluensis, known only from the Kadamain river at 2000’, 
was collected on the mountain at 6000’, and was also plentiful in recent 
jungle from Renagong to Bunda Tuhan. 
A wider distribution has also been established for a number of secondary 
forest plants, viz., Spherothalamus insignis and Baphia borneensis (Sarawak), 
Saurauia feros, Otophora imbricata and Marsilea quadrata (Sarawak and Dutch 
Borneo), and Adinobotrys Niewwenhuisii (Dutch Borneo) ; while Dacrydium 
Jalciforme, recorded from Sarawak, Dutch Borneo, and the Philippines, is 
general on the Kinabalu spurs. In fact the plants of the present collection, 
both from the primary and secondary forest, show a strong connection with 
* Itis gratifying to note that Mr. H. N. Ridley, in his * Contributions to the Flora of 
Borneo,” in the Sarawak Museum Journal, will now be able to do justice to the work of 
these indefatigable and successful collectors. 
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