io8 The Gardens of the Sim. [ch. v. 



of about 4,000 feet, having an under stratum of sticks 

 and brushwood to keep our water-proof sheets off the 

 wet ground. The air, even at this low elevation, was 

 chilly during the night, and we found a fire and blankets 

 acceptable comforts. Melastoma macroca/rpa, bearing 

 its large, rosy flowers, formed a large proportion of 

 the brush around our camping ground. Here the large 

 nepenthes were very fine ; and a beautiful white flowered 

 dendrobium grows among the bushes. It belongs to the 

 nigro hirsute section, and has pseudo-bulbs five or six 

 feet high. The blossoms are described by Mr. Low as 

 being similar to those of T>. formosum giganteum, but 

 with a deep orange red blotch on the lip. 



Just above our camping ground, the long, red, 

 pitchered Nepenthes Edwardsiana was very beautiful, 

 growing up through the low jungle, its pitchers con- 

 trasting with the tufts of rich green moss which draped 

 trunks and branches everywhere. N. Rajah was also 

 abundant ; and we noticed some immense urns depend- 

 ing from its great broad leaves, far finer, indeed, than 

 those found at 9,000 feet elevation, on the more southern 

 spur. That distinct and curious fern, Lmdsaya Jame- 

 sonioides, grew here and there in the chinks of the ser- 

 pentine rock, and a long-leaved insect-catching sundew 

 (Drosera) was common in most places among the stones 

 and herbage. 



After collecting what plants we desired, we had break- 

 fast, and then commenced our return. We reached Kiau 

 in about five hours, but some of our men did not come 

 in until long after our arrival, as they had heavy loads to 

 carry, and the clay paths were veiy slippery. At Kiau 

 village, and on the slopes of the mountain itself, we 

 spent eight days, and then came the weary march back 

 to Gaya Bay, which, however, we accomplished in six 



