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branches, proved to be a new species of Gigantochloa, (Z. heteroclada, A 
handsome male Laportea showed fine tassels of pendent pink flowers, 
unfortunately out of reach. 
The country now was all cleared ridges with many campongs. Before 
Renagong, we passed some forest of quite a different character to any seen 
before. Here Clethra canescens formed an understage, while fine trees of 
a symmetrical Hucalyptus, possibly Æ. alba, rose abundantly, exposing the 
whole of their straight white boles, with ragged bark banging from the 
lower branches. 
Farther on the path has been washed entirely away for some distance, 
and the pony had to be sent back to Tambunan in charge of Mr. Pritchard’s 
plucky little syee. The rest-house here again was in a wonderful position, 
situated on the slopes of the range at 2700’, and commanding a view up the 
long valley, which stretched away on both sides. 
Kinabalu’s lowering peaks, however, the chief glory of the view, were 
completely invisible, from the persistent rain and mist. 
From here it was a question of up-and-down native tracks, over perpetual 
clay and extensive clearings, cultivation, and recent jungle, to Kiau, and 
offering little of interest botanically or otherwise, and of ceaseless rain. At 
Renagong the campong showed large communal houses with green-sward 
in front close-eropped by buffaloes. After Bundu Tuhan we passed over the 
southern spur of Kinabalu, where, on Tenumpok ridge, there is a patch of fine 
primary forest. The trees were very high and evenly spaced, with little under- 
growth, and the ground in places was strewn with the corollas of a large 
yellow Rhododendron, possibly R. Brookeanum. Begonia adenostegia, found 
by Haviland on the Kinataki at 4500’, and Elatostema tenumpokensis were 
amongst the herbaceous undergrowth. In one place where forest had 
recently been felled, a catch-crop of kladi had been planted amongst the 
logs, the ground being thus utilised till the wood was dry enough for 
burning. 
We soon, however, emerged from this pleasant break into the rankest 
secondary growth again, and, making our way down a subsidiary spur, all 
clearing, struck the Kadamaian river, following its bed, choked with 
enormous blocks of granite, till we came to the Kiau ricefields and a passable 
bridge. 
4. KINABALU. 
a. Kiau. 
Arriving at Kiau was like treading on classic ground. The steep pull up 
the river, in the usual downpour, by the narrow slippery native path, dis- 
daining any attempt at a zigzag, and the little bamboo-built chalet-like 
