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Serekin, and Lubok Pilin, a wide part of the river im- 

 mediately after. At half-past 9 A.M. we reached the 

 Sunghie Tubah on the left, and an hour afterwards 

 passed on the opposite bank another stream of small 

 size, of which I did not learn the name : here I gathered 

 a pretty climbing plant with bunches of fragrant white 

 flowers in the axils of the leaves. At 1 A.M. we passed 

 a bed of large pebbles, called Karangan Kaladi, over 

 which the now shallow river ran with great velocity. 

 At 11,1 found a small and very minute Arum growing 

 on stones under the waters of the river, which were 

 clear as crystal, with transparent colourless flowers, and 

 leaves with very short petioles. At half-past 1 1 , we 

 reached Sunghie Kandong on the right, and three 

 quarters of an hour after, passed Sunghie Kasong on 

 the left A little farther on I saw a plant of the very 

 magnificent new scarlet JEschynanthus Aucklandite, 

 which I have described. When first discovered, this plant 

 like all the others of it I have seen, was hanging from a 

 tuft of the beautiful bird's nest fern (Aspleniuni), which 

 is common in the jungle. We have also passed some 

 plants of the Acrostichum grande, and plenty of the 

 Polypodium quercifolium is to be found on every tree. 



Wild sirih leaves (piper) were gathered by my 

 men, and in a tree near I found a curious and beau- 

 tiful flower of the genus Hoya, growing in the hole of 

 a tree, in extracting which I was bitten, till the blood 

 flowed from the wounds in my hands, by a species 

 of large black ant, which had also located itself 

 in the same place as the roots of the plant. The flowers 



