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We went out to a shady spot near the house to 

 examine our plants and see that they were in good 

 order, and we then rested all day. We were not alto- 

 gether satisfied with our trip to the mountain, and 

 resolved to start off to it again in the morning, hut 

 this time taking another path so as to reach the " Marie 

 Parie " spur. We sent off for "Kurow," and, telling 

 him our intentions, asked him to collect his followers 

 and be in readiness to accompany us. The poor fellow 

 was delighted at this sign of our confidence in him, and 

 helped us zealously, enduring cold, rain, and waiting — 

 to him meaningless, weary waiting — without a murmur. 

 In the morning we crossed the hill behind the village, 

 and fording the "Haya-Haya," " Dahombang," " Pino- 

 Kok," and "Kina Takie" streams, we reached the foot 

 of the " Marie Parie " spur. 



Now came a climb up a rocky pathway, besides which 

 we noticed fine plants of Cypripedium Petreianum, Cyst- 

 orchis varicgata, and a lovely yellow flowered terres- 

 trial orchid belonging to the genus Spathoglottis, but quite 

 distinct from S. aurea. As we ascended, our path lay up 

 through a belt oftall bamboos, and here two species of 

 nepenthes were seen. . One was the long, green pitchered 

 kind, covered with purple blotches (2V". Bosckiana var. 

 Lowii), and the other a tall growing species, bearing 

 beautiful white pitchers, elegantly ewer-shaped, diapha- 

 nous like "egg shell" porcelain, and most daintily 

 blotched with reddish crimson in a wa3 T quite unlike 

 any other variety. This grew on both sides of the path, 

 and climbed the trees to a height of forty or fifty feet. 

 We reached the crest of the ridge about three o'clock, in 

 a heavy drenching shower, the climate being similar to 

 that of a warm autumn evening in a Devonshire wood. 

 We slept under some overhanging rocks at an elevation 



