54 MISS L. S. GIBBS ON THE FLORA AND PLANT FORMATIONS 
already described for Jesselton. Lurycoma longifolia with brownish- 
yellowish flowers, and Symplocos oblongifolia with white flowers, were 
associated with it. 
Leaving Kotabelud for Tuaran by a very good bridle-path, we first passed 
over the foothills through the dominant Gardenia Merrillii, then through 
a succession of widely spaced trees, Pternandra cærulescens being covered 
with its little stem-borne blue flowers, till the trees passed into a very fine 
secondary forest, showing that, as at Jesselton, open sandstone carrying 
a scrub association is a secondary condition due to human agency. 
Beautiful groups of a Corypha were abundant; also magnificent clumps of 
* Nibong” (Oncosperma filamentosum). The * rentis" ran up through these 
beautiful hills to about 2000', passing prosperous-looking * campongs " 
embedded in luxuriant vegetation. I did not collect at all, but several 
times saw the handsome flowers of Uvaria purpurea, like purple-red 
camellias. 
We dropped to sea-level at Tenghilan, a small open padi-field with Jussiewa 
repens and Monochoria hastefolia floating in the side ditches. On rising 
ground, where a rest-house was charmingly situated on a park-like mound, 
the leafless Sterculia campanulata was shedding its formless green flowers. 
From Tenghilan we floated down through the mangrove-swamp of the 
Sulaman river, past pile villages, to Kindoo, where the “rentis” starts 
for Tuaran. At Kindoo cleared sandstone began immediately behind the 
mangroves, with Gardenia Merrillii and Gahnia tristis predominant. 
Then over some hills and secondary forest on to the fertile plains of the 
Tuaran river, noted for their pea-nut cultivation. Tuaran also boasts a 
* tamil” or native fair, which is a picturesque and busy sight, held once 
a week. 
Mr. Bunbury pointed out to me the famous clay-beds, banded in beautiful 
colours, which are renowned throughout the countryside as an article of diet. 
Dr. Cullis, who kindly looked at a sample I brought back, declared it to be 
clay of the very purest consistency, a substance successfully used as an 
adulterant in more sophisticated countries, but which cannot be assimilated 
by the human system. 
The station is in an ideal situation, from which one looks over the Tuaran 
river on one side and towards Kinabalu on the other, the latter, however, 
here reduced to a three-quarter view. 
