36 MISS L. S. GIBBS ON THE FLORA AND PLANT FORMATIONS 
Lycopodium Hippuris hung suspended from others together with Piper 
amphibracteum, with the orchids Saccolabium kinabaluense, Phvreatia densi- 
flora and Eria pilosissima. 
Once over the last ridge, with sudden transition one passes into a fine 
mossy forest, at about 6000’, very sterile in character, spreading evenly over 
the top of the sheltered shoulder. Fine trees of the conifers just quoted 
seem to predominate, and young trees of the Phyllocladus were very general 
as a substage, flowering and fruiting at 5 metres, The stems of the older 
trees were all swathed in moss, as were rotting logs covering the ground. 
Undergrowth was markedly absent ; now and again the slender shoots of 
Rhododendron stenophyllum were seen with very long narrow leaves in scanty 
whorls up the stems and crowned with one or two flowers bright scarlet in 
colour and of fleshy consistency, or sparse plants of A. cuneifolium and 
R. ericoides, the latter one of the most general and characteristic of the plants 
peculiar to this mountain, with its heath-like foliage and little red flowers. 
The grey-looking Trichomanes pallidum and the fennel-like T. Bauerianum 
with Polypodium hirtellum were scattered over the moss-clothed stems and 
logs, the latter sheltering between them clumps of Dawsonia altissima and 
Sphagnum gedeanum. 
Again without transition, we suddenly emerged on to an open ridge at 
about 7000’, narrow, but with vegetation, springing thickly from either side 
and composed of dwarfed Dacrydium Gibbsie, Podocarpus imbricatus and 
P. brevifolius, and the Phyllocladus, with dense crowns about 3 m. high. 
I saw the first vines of Nepenthes Lowii stretched across their stunted stems, 
with their graceful urn-like green pitchers, and with it N. Edwardsiana, all 
the pitchers hanging vertically and full of water; radical pitchers were 
searched for, but not found. The narrow track showed fine white sand, and 
looked as if it were kept open, possibly by deer. On both sides Gleichenia 
vulcanica twined its long fronds and Cheiropleura bicuspis, Polypodium 
triquetrum and Plagiogyria adnata were abundant—all xerophytic types. 
The ridge soon opens out on to the little oasis of Kamburangau, “ the 
spirit place," in the Dusun tongue, and the * Temburengo" of previous 
records, famous as the only locality for Patersonia outside extra-tropical 
Australia. It was on this spot that Whitehead, under almost impossible 
hardships, spent six weeks in practically ceaseless rain and mist, and, 
although ill with fever and limited to a miserable zulap as shelter for 
himself and his faithful Kadyans, obtained and skinned a great part of his 
priceless collection of birds. 
When I arrived the coolies were all busy cutting firewood, whilst a fine 
zulap, roofed with “ Kajangs," had been erected under Mr. Maxwell’s able 
direction. He told me that the supports of Walterstadt’s zulap were still 
standing when they arrived. 
As it was raining again I quickly worked through the open patch of 
