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quest of this interesting plant. After a walk of perhaps a couple 

 of miles along one of the main paths skirting the edge of a deep 

 gorge through which flowed a considerable stream, of which only 

 now and then one caught a glimpse through the thick tangle 

 clothing the sides of the gorge, we arrived at our destination. 

 Every few minutes one stopped to gather some rare and beautiful 

 plant. The sides of the path were covered with fine mosses and 

 liverworts, the trunks smothered in mats of liverworts and ferns 

 with all sorts of epiphytic growths among them. Flowers were 

 not very abundant, but yet there were some that would attract 

 the most unobservant eye. A Gordonia, a tree loaded with big 

 white blossoms like Cherokee roses, was very common, and often, 

 close to the ground, the bright red cone of a Zingiberaceous 

 plant, an Elettaria, caught the eye, or the scarlet bell of an Aes- 

 chynanthus, an epiphytic Gesneriad, flashed like a spark in the 

 gloom of the dense forest. Exquisite pink and white balsams 

 were very common and now and then a handsome ground orchid 

 was seen. A few small palms grew among the tangle of other 

 plants and splendid tree ferns abounded on all sides. Enormous 

 specimens of Angiopteris, one of the Marattiaceae, were common, 

 and upon the trees a great variety of epiphytic ferns, Opliioglos- 

 sum pendulum, Aspleniuni Nidus, various Hymenophyllaceae and 

 many others contended with other plants for a foothold. With 

 all these distractions it was not strange that we were a good while 

 in covering the road to the spot where Treubia was to be found. 

 But finally we arrived and plunged into a dense thicket, Sapihin 

 plying the wicked-looking big knife which every Malay seems to 

 carry, to cut through the thick sappy stems of the rank vegeta- 

 tion which choked our path. The Treubia was growing in thick 

 mats over fallen rotten logs and on the wet ground, its big fleshy 

 fronds a full inch across, and I soon had a fine lot of specimens 

 in my collecting bag. Near by we also found the rare and beauti- 

 ful Calobjyuvi Blumci Nees, which Goebel rediscovered. This 

 upright liverwort, with its large spirally arranged leaves, looks very 

 much more like a big moss than it does like a liverwort, but the 

 long stalked sporogonium is typically hepatic in aspect. Both 

 of these species were collected repeatedly later on, and although 



