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from Borneo aii.l Mpi^uviitlv (tlmn-li il,,. ||,,|„ |,i^^ ii.,t y.\ \, 

 ade|uately exauiinod) from Simuilni also; iiuii.' of tli.'s.. Hiiiiuluvan 

 plants have been met with on Matau-,' in Sarawak uor ou Kiuulmlu. 

 the only hi^-h mountains of Borneo, which liav.- I.kmi tli(.r(Mij;hlv .-x- 

 plored. It is intor'-stiu^;, too, 1(. n,,te that, acvunliip^ t<. Mr. KuImii-...ii. 

 the hirds of the Tt'lnm valley arc also Himalavaii in t >!•••. 



I have only to add some notes as to tli.> kin«l ..1" ruuntrv in 

 which the Telom district lies; the whole country consist k, ^'cnernlly 

 speaking, of heavily-forested hills, lietwecn which run streams r.f 

 various sizes. The rock of which these hills consist is a inixtuiv 

 of slates and schists. At the Telom Camp an<l further un t..wardi 

 Gunong Berumban are patches of perfectly flat i^n.uu'l, lowdvinj; and 

 muddy; these are of some size, and rather to the north of (Itmom,' 

 Berumban lies a similar flat area, apparently much niore extensive, 

 w'hich is jiresnmably the plateau descrilted many years ai,'o liy Cameron 

 and known by his name. In these plains the flora is difiVrent fn.m 

 that of the surrounding country, the forest is comparatively thin, the 

 trees scattered, the characteristic ones l)eing Saiiraujn and Piirfnnrii ; 

 I have seen no similar flat lands anywhere else in the Peninsula. 

 The highest land we visited is much less xerophytic than is usiial at 

 such altitudes in the Peninsula, and the xeropliytic fluni was met with 

 chiefly on the ridges connecting the higher points. This may. fiorhaps, 

 be the cause of the absence of such plants as Bievhut, Lfjito^jifninini 

 and Mafoit'iii, so abundant on all our other hills. A ridge iM'hind the 

 camp, called Telom Ki<lge in this paper, was a goo«l example <>f 

 these somewhat drier ridges ; the fli.ra was poor in s|ie<-ie8. it 

 l)eing mainly coveivd with bushes of a new s|)ecies of Pimiuijo, 

 Pandatua^ coUinii>t and AUonioriihia rofiea, and the groun<l lj<>twe«Mi 

 these was remarkably poor in herbaceous plants, ferns, etc., such as •.ii#» 

 usually finds abundant at these altitudes ami on similar ri<lges 

 elsewhere, ft is possible that these bush palms may have s..m.-thini; to 

 ilo Avith the poveily ..f herbaceous plants, fur one muld n«.t but 

 C(unpare the flora witii that of the lirrf'ini hills of Tapah. To 

 a botanist nothing could be more barren than these hills; U'lween 

 the great clumps of the berlum {KiiiitissuuK //•/>/ /k) hardly a fern 

 or a herb was to be seen, although the ground was <piite b.ire 

 and there was plenty of light and n-om. 



Palms were bv no means so abumlant and a.s varied in the Telom 

 woods as they are on the Taiping Hills :md other hill i-ang»'s in the 

 Peninsula, and as we travelled from tlie Tapah road t.» Telom. one ...uld 

 note the circumscribed areas of the different species, which markeil .b- 

 tinctly the complete changes of fl..ra. At the IJth mile from TajMih 

 Eii,iei.<<.^a,i(( was abundant, and Omnia ,)i,irr»<-l,nl,(.-', the lU.l. .ipj^xin^l 

 as the Eiifiei-^^inta began to get scanty, but only c.mtinued f..r a nule or so. 

 when both disappeared. In the Batang Pa<iang valley Ann.,., »'.>/♦ r- 

 honti, the Langkap, was the i)revailing palm till at the u\,\'*'T md. 

 livL<to„o cochhu-hi,ieu.<ix an.l a Caryut.f, apparently ..U.m,. were the 



