OF MT. KINABALU AND BRITISH NORTH BORNEO, 41 
by Haviland’s collection, as Dr. Stapf, in the table for his summit zone 
(from 10,500’ upwards, which would comprise this dwarf sub-summit forest), 
only quotes Eugenia ampullaria, Embelia spireoides, and Myrsine dasyphylla 
as not found lower down. 
Podocarpus imbricatus is here very erect, with radial foliage and no 
cupressoid biserial drooping shoots. P. brevifolius showed the same habit 
as on the Maraiparai, while PAyllocludus hypsophylla was in some cases so 
glaucous as to be conspicuous amongst the even level of the tree-tops, while 
in others only the youngest flowering whorl would show a glaucous bloom. 
Daerudium Gibbsie was in flower and fruit, as were also the other conifers, 
both sexes being equally frequent. This was a fortunate occurrence in the 
case of the Dacrydium, of which so far only the youth-form had been 
collected, a condition which was insufficient for identification. 
Perhaps the fact that these Taxacez were all so obvious that they could 
not be overlooked, aceounts for their alleged predominance in this locality 
over angiosperm representatives, of which mbelia kinabaluensis, Furya 
reticulata, Ternstremia Lowi, Styphelia Learmonthiana, S. suaveolens, 
Diplycosia einnamomifolia, Stranvesia integrifolia, Vaccinium | buaifolium, 
and Polyosma Hookeri were in flower, while Leptospermum javanicum, 
L. vecurvum, and Schima brevifolia were in the bud. 
Open spaces were occupied by a scrubby growth of Gaultheria borneensis, 
about 1 m. high, Vaccinium cordifolium, Hedyotis pulchella, H. macrostegia, 
and Phyllocrater Gibbsiæ, distinct in its large single white flowers, but of 
similar habit, and the persistent little Diplycosia kinabaluensis, whose large 
leaves contrast so funnily with its dwarf stature among the predominating 
microphyllous facies of this formation. A Rubus was seen, but not in flower. 
Associated with these were Gleichenia vestita, Polypodium alternidens, 
Plagiogyria adnata and Nepenthes tentaculata var. tomentosa, 
I caught up the main party waiting at a rock, and hearing the chiefs had 
retired for the necessary incantations, dived under the trees to investigate 
the undergrowth, but only found some Loranthus sabaënsis on the heath 
Rhododendron, growing near the ground. An unexpected and deafening 
report of a gun caused me to return in haste, when I learned that the praying 
was over. Six eggs had been deposited on the stone, and the shot was to 
warn the “ Hantu ” that a Tuan was intruding on their mystic solitudes. 
e. Summit (Granite Core). 11,500-13,400'. 
We then went on together and soon stepped out of the dwarf forest on to 
the granite core (Pl. 7. fig. 6), which at its edge was swept by the branches 
of the trees composing the former. The granite at first spread out rather 
evenly, with a little light yellow orchid, Dendrochilum stachyodes, in the cracks 
