ON PLANTS FROM GUNONG TAHAN, PAHANG. 301 
On a Collection of Plants made by Н. C. Robinson and L. Wray from 
Gunong Tahan, Pahang. By H. N. Ripity, M.A., F.R.S., F.L.S., 
assisted by other Botanists. 
[Read 5th December, 1907.) 
[IN 1905 the Trustees of the British Museum made a grant towards the 
expenses of Mr. Н. С. Robinson’s expedition to Gunong Tahan in the Malay 
Peninsula, on condition that the whole collection made by the expedition 
should be sent to the Natural History Museum and that the first set should 
become the property of the Trustees. An account of the expedition will 
shortly be published in the Journal of the Federated Malay States Museum. 
The plants, numbering about 250 specimens, were collected from May to 
July, 1905, by Mr. Robinson and Mr. L. Wray, Director of Museums, 
Federated Malay States. As Mr. H. N. Ridley, who is specially interested in 
the botany of the Peninsula, was home on leave during last year, I asked him 
to prepare an account of the collection. He agreed, but having to return to 
Singapore early in January, left his paper in an unfinished state; with 
Mr. E. G. Baker's assistance I have compared it with the specimens in the 
study set at the British. Museum, annotated, and prepared it for the press. 
The account of the Ferns and Mosses is largely the work of Mr. А. Gepp, and 
that of the Fungi and Lichens has been prepared by Miss A. Lorrain Smith. 
(А. D. RENDLE.) | 
THE mountain Gunong Tahan lies in the north of Pahang, on the east coast 
of the Malay Peninsula, and was formerly believed to be by far the highest 
mountain in the Peninsula. It proves, however, to be by no means so lofty 
as was at first supposed, being only 7100 feet in altitude. 
Several attempts were made to explore this mountain on previous occasions. 
The first of these was undertaken by the author of this paper, accompanied by 
Mr. W. Davison, Curator of the Ratlles Museum, Singapore, and Lieut. Kelsall, 
R.E., in 1891. The position of the mountain was then unknown, and owing 
to the limited time allowed, the failure of the commissariat, the extremely 
unhealthy character of. the Tahan Valley, and the unsettled state of Pahang, 
then on the eve of the rebellion which broke out the following year, the 
expedition failed to reach its goal. А good collection of plants, however, was 
made, an account of which was published in the Transactions of this Society, 
ser, 2, iii. p. 267, and an itinerary of the trip in the Journal of the Hoval 
Asiatic Society, Straits Branch, vol. xxv. p. 33. This expedition attempted 
to reach the mountain by travelling up the Pahang river, then up the 
Tembeling and Tahan rivers, which latter stream is reported to spring from 
the base of the mountain. 
