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growth were clothed in small mosses and hepatics, associated Avith the 

 abundant little white Dendrohium Taylori and the minute Bulbo- 

 phyUum Liliancd with white petals and yellow labellum, growing 

 tight!}' round the smallest branches. On the summit a small space 

 had been cleared exposing the granite, where a large clump of Gahnia 

 psittacoriim*, so common in the Arfak Mts. of N.W. New Guinea, 

 grew by the rock. 



It was about 9 a.m. Avhen we arrived, but there was only a 

 restricted view, which soon clouded over, down the Mulgrave valley 

 to the sea, and up it in the Mt. Bartle Frere direction. In the 

 inevitable bottle om* names, with those of the three boys who 

 accompanied us, were written on the back of Mjoberg's record of his 

 ascent, this indefatigable investigator having been the last to visit 

 the mountain. The mentality of the Australian natives is supposed 

 to be one of the lowest in the human scale, yet these men asked me 

 to put down the name of the boy left at the camp, as it was not his 

 fault he was not there as well f. Among the records of previous 

 ascents I was interested to see Domin's card, but, being heavily 

 glazed, it was already turning black, and had half perished. Dr. M jo- 

 berg had made interesting notes on the temperature and atmospheric 

 conditions prevailing at the time of his ascent. 



Threatening clouds closing round did not allow much time to hunt 

 for Bliododoidron Locked, the only representative of this typical 

 Malayan and Papuan genus in Australia ; however, I heard later 

 from Mr. Garabage that it is limited to the summit of one of the 

 two other peaks of this range. We hurried down to the tent and had 

 only just struck camp when rain fell in torrents, and persisted for the 

 rest of the day, incidentally mobilising battalions of leeches. We 

 returned to Harvey's Creek at about -1 p.m., when the plants obtained 

 Avere arranged and packed, and I left the next morning for Kuranda. 



The collection made at the latter place is included in this list, but. 

 as most of my proposed work there was cut short by an attack of 

 coast fever, I have nothing to add to Dr. Domin's account of his 

 results in the same locality. Here, again, the unexpected number of 

 new species found in such a frequented region is no doubt due to the 

 fact that very little recent collecting has been done in N. Queensland 

 during the hot or rainy season. 



I am indebted to Mr. Spencer Moore for the systematic account 

 of the phanerogams, with the exception of the Palms, which Prof. 

 Beccari has kindly named, and the Orchids, which Dr. Rendle has 

 undertaken. The Ferns have been named by Mr. Gepp — most of 

 them were looked through by the Rev. W. W. Watts at Sydney, who 

 suggested most of the names — and the solitary fungus by Mr. Rams- 

 bottom. The plants themselves are in the National Herbarium. I 

 regret that Dr. Domin's fui-ther publications in BihJiotheca Botanica 

 have not been available for reference. 



* L. S. Gibbs, ' A Contribution to the Phytogeography and Flora of the Arfak 

 Mts. etc.,' 1917, p. 35. 



t Qf. Eric Mjoberg, " Svenska biologiska expeditionen till Australien, 1910- 

 1911," in Ymer, xxxii. (1912) 431. 



