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Save for the occurrence of "Job's Tears" (Coix Lachryma 

 Jobi) at 1350 feet, and the commencement of the Giant Bam- 

 boo zone at 2000 feet, I noted little of botanical interest, as, 

 after leaving the various streams which form the sources of the 

 Langat River, attention was principally directed to a search 

 for water. I remember, however, a most unexpected show of 

 Cannas in a Saki clearing at 1,000 feet. 



The collection was made between the camp and the top 

 of Menuang Casing, about 3^ 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 Bukit Pengaseh. 



In two spots some distance apart, but both at an altitude 

 of 4,100 feet, a yellow Balsam {Impaiiens oncidioides) occurred, 

 thickly covering swampy patches on the ridges, while I have 

 rarely seen denser draperies of moss at a height of 4,300 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 along its length. Much of this 

 mud was covered by a small-leaved creeping plant {Pratia 

 hegonioefolia) which bore immense numbers of round pinkish- 

 red fruits. 



The ridges struck me as being unusually swampy, but the 

 summit of Menuang 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 3,000 feet and 4,908 feet. — C. B. K.j 



The Flora. 



yhe collection of plants made by Mr. Kloss on this expe- 

 dition and described below, shows clearly the fact that this 

 mountain, possessing as he states a high-level fauna, bears also 

 a high-level flora. 



/yThe 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 chain 

 running to the northern part of the peninsula. This is 

 illustrated by the occurrence here of such plants as the beautiful 

 Golden Balsam Impatient oncidioides, Bucklnndia populnea, the 

 rare Polyosoma parviflora, Pratia begonicefolia, Dilochia Cantleyi, 

 and Goodyera gracilis. 



Further south we have one mountain of approximately 

 the same height, viz. Mount Ophir, 4,000 feet in altitude, the 

 flora of which is now well known and is very different from 

 that of the main chain and of Menuang Gasing. Indeed, 



