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CHAPTER VII 



New Year's Day in Kuching — The House on Mattang — Ataps — 

 Riverside Plants on the Sarawak River — Nibongs, Nip as, 

 and Mangroves — Air-Roots — Seeds which Germinate in 

 Mid-Air — Salak and its Geological Structure — The Menka- 

 bang Pinang — Vallombrosa — The Summit oj? Mattang — -A 

 Month at Singapore — "Woodlands " — Tigers — Doria leaves 

 for Europe— Return to Mattang — The Hair of a China- 

 woman — A Singular Ceremony — -I Arrange my House — 

 Method of Drying Plants — Height of Some Trees — The 

 Bilian — Flowering of Trees — The Dipterocarpe;e on Mattang 

 — Primitive Flora ........ 79 



CHAPTER VIII 



The Flora of the Sea-Shore — Santubong Peak — Strange Plants 

 — Nepenthes Veitchii — Satang — Turtles — Excursion to 

 Poe — Austral Character of the Vegetation — More Notable 

 Plants — The Rafflesia — Gunong Gading — Freshwater 

 ALGiE ........... 94 



CHAPTER IX 



At Mattang Again — Wild Bees — An Uninhabited Mountain — 

 Antiquity of the Forest — The Name Mattang — An Abund- 

 ance of Beautiful Plants — The Age of Trees — Rare Sapro- 

 phytes and Fungi in the Tropics — Adventitious Plants 

 Around the Chinamen's Houses — The Valley of Rotangs — 

 Spinous Plants — The Mormolyce — Pityriasis Gymnocephala 

 — Hornbills — Argus Pheasant and Nocturnal Lepidoptera 



Alone at " Vallombrosa " — A Storm in the Forest 



— Shooting at Buntal ....... 106 



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