IN BORNEAN FORESTS [chap. 



As no one had described the Rafflesia of Mount Poe, I named 

 it R. Tuan-Mudce, in honour of the present Rajah of Sarawak, 

 Sir Charles Brooke. 1 



Before my party rejoined me, I had brought to the Dyaks' 

 house my precious rind, taken the requisite notes on the' fresh 

 specimens, and made drawings of the entire plant and of its more 

 important parts. Not being able to preserve the flower entire, 

 I had to content myself with such portions as might be useful for 

 further study, and these I put into a jar with spirits. 



We then returned to Sadomak, from which place on the following 

 days we made an excursion to Gunong Gading, also a granitic 

 mountain. We passed the night of August 22nd under a lanko, 

 at an altitude of about 1,700 feet, and on the following morning 

 climbed the summit nearest the sea, which proved to be 3,209 ft. 

 high, the thermometer standing at 70 Fahr., and the aneroid at 

 685 mm. I found nothing of any particular interest on this 

 mountain top. 



From Gunong Gading issues a stream which forms a fine water- 

 fall, plunging into a deep and limpid basin beneath. On these 

 rocks, always wet with falling spray, I discovered a singular Aroid 

 (Rhynchopile elongata, Engl.), with shiny spadix of a cherry-red. 

 I got besides several other interesting plants, amongst them a new 

 Anonacea (Goniothalamus suaveolens, Becc, P.B. N. 2,327 2 ). It 

 is a shrub with large, fleshy, greenish flowers inserted on the slender 

 trunk and exhaling a most delicious perfume, very similar to that of 

 the pompadour or allspice (Calycanthus floridus). 



At Sadomak, on the rocks in the stream near the Dyak houses, 

 I discovered two singular alga?, both of which were new. One of 

 them, of a red colour, which turned out to be a Delesseria, and was 

 later named D. Beccarii, Zan., is of great botanic interest, for it 

 belongs to a genus of which all the previously known species are 

 marine. It covered the rocks with a red coating. The other, which 

 has been named Thorea flagelliformis, Zan., is one of the most 

 beautiful of freshwater algae, being composed of tufts of long 

 plumose filaments, some four inches in length, of a lovely violet 

 colour. 



I returned to Kuching well pleased with my botanic harvest, 



1 Fuller details of this plant are given in the work of Count H. von 

 Solms-Laubach on the Rafflesia, published in the A nnales dn Jar din Botanique 

 de Buitenzorg, vol. ix. p. 185. 



2 To every plant I collected in Borneo I attached a number corresponding 

 to a catalogue, kept regularly, to which I added notes from time to time. 

 These numbers are attached to all the samples of Bornean plants in my 

 herbarium, or which have been distributed to the herbaria of Kew, Paris, 

 St. Petersburg, Vienna, and others. It is for this reason that here, in men- 

 tioning a plant, I also give its number with the initials P.B. (Plantce 

 Beccariance). 



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