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MR. H. N. RIDLEY ON THE PLANTS 
Gasing, about 34 hours distant to the N.W. along a very undulating track, 
which ran up and down hill-sides, along ridges, and over many minor 
summits, but nowhere reached as low a level as Dukit Pengaseh. 
In two spots some distance apart, but both atan altitude of 4100 feet, a 
yellow Balsam (Impatiens oncidioides) occurred, thickly covering swampy 
patches on the ridges, while I have rarely seen denser draperies of moss at a 
height of 4300 feet than on a rocky hill-top covered with trees whose roots 
crawled over the surface ; here orchids were numerous. At this height also 
we discovered a swamp and small pond on a level ridge which was deep in 
mud all aleng its length. Much of this mud was covered by a small-leaved 
creeping plant (Pratia begoniefolia) which bore immense numbers of round 
pinkish-red fruits. 
The ridges struck me as being unusually swampy, but the summit of 
Ménuang Gasing itself was quite dry, being of conical form ; it had been 
cleared some years previously, and was covered principally with myrtles, 
pitcher-plants, and long grasses. 
It will be seen that the plants obtained occurred at altitudes between 
3000 feet and 4908 feet.—C. D. К.) 
The Flora. 
The colleetion of plants made by Mr. Kloss on this expedition and deseribed 
below, shows clearly the fact that this mountain, possessing as he states a 
high-level fauna, bears also a high-level flora. 
The mountain itself possesses an Interest in that it is one of the most 
southern ones of anything like that altitude in the peninsula, and the flora 
we find thereon is shown by this collection to be similar to that of the 
central mountain ehain running to the northern part of tbe peninsula. 
This is illustrated by the occurrence here of such plants as the beautiful 
Golden Balsam Zmpatiens oncidioides, Bucklandia populnea, the rare Poljo- 
soma parviflora, Pratia begoniefolia, Dilochia Cantleyi, and Good era 
gracilis. 
Further south we have one mountain of approximately the same height, 
viz. Mount Ophir, 4000 feet in altitude, the flora of which is now well known 
and is very different from that of the main chain and of Ménuang Gasing. 
Indeed, there is every evidence that Mount Ophir was never connected with 
the main chain of the peninsula, or at least not during the period of the 
evolution of the flora now found on the mountains of the central main 
range. 
The novelties and additions to our flora are mostly of peninsular types, 
but of more special interest are the Javanese Orchid, Physurus humilis, 
Forrestia glabrata (Indo-Malaya), and the Indian Prati begoniwfolia, which, 
