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Cyr.) but especially by Filices. (Nephrolepis hirsutula Pr., Dry- 
opteris cucullata Christ.) At length, about half past twelve, we 
had reached the verge of the landslip just below the top of 
the cliff. This position already commanded a splendid view of 
the sea and the islands. The trees were getting smaller and 
began to look stunted, like what one sees also on the Java 
mountains and in some places there were already patches of 
Jungle-grass,; ,glagah”, Saccharum spontaneum L., though Cyr- 
tandra sulcata Bl. continued to dominate, rather smaller indeed, 
but otherwise apparently very little the worse for the fierce 
light. Yet another hour we had to struggle along in this way, 
until at half-past one we stood on the small peak. It was 
entirely overgrown with glagah and two very tall kinds of 
ferns, Nephrolepis hirsutula Pr. and Dryopteris cucullata Christ, over 
which crept a kind of epiphytic trailingplant, a species of 
Trichosporum (Trich. volubile Nees.) with magnificent scarlet 
flowers. Cyrtandra was still represented and a few species of 
Ficus as well (Ficus ribes L. and F. Jistulosa Reinw.). The jung- 
le-grass reached above our heads and we had to tread a path 
with our feet. It was impossible for me to look down the pre- 
cipice in a standing posture; to sound the abyss with my eyes 
I had to crawl forward on my stomach and put my head over 
the edge. It was a peculiar sensation to gaze down perpendi- 
ularly for 2500 ft. and see the breakers beat the cliff-base. 
The whole ascent, which in a normal mountainous district would 
probably have taken no more than about two hours, now re- 
quired upwards of six; no wonder we were knocked up and 
the water-bottles empty. For half an hour we rested in the 
