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a Purple and a Yellow Utricularia and two species of Xyris 
were very conspicuous. Melastomaceous plants and Begonias, 
in contradistinction to the flora of the Perak main range, were 
by no means common and only two or three species of ginger- 
worts were met with. We did not see a single tree fern. 
Collections were made in all groups of the animal kingdom 
and rather over two hundred species of flowering plants were 
obtained amongst which was an unusually large ‘proportion of 
orchids. Very many species however were not in flower or in 
fruit at the time of our visit and it was therefore impossible to 
obtain identifiable specimens. This was especially the case 
among the Gesneraceae, of which about a dozen species were 
noted. 
Animal life was extraordinarily poor, not only in species but 
also in individuals, and the only group represented by large 
numbers of specimens is the Lepidoptera Heterocera, of which 
considerable series were obtained by the use of a Lux lamp at 
night. In other groups the Millipedes were perhaps most 
abundant, though the number of species was not large. Al 
orders of day flying insects were extremely scarce. 
The most interesting capture of the trip was a specimen of 
Eoperipatus secured by a collector belonging to Dr. R. 
Hanitsch of the Raffles Museum, Singapore, who accompanied 
us. A single specimen was cbtained in rotten wood at about 
2,900 ft: though diligently searched for by ten other collectors 
for a day no other specimens were met with. The collections 
as worked out will be published group by group in this Journal. 
In the present number lists are given of the vertebrates. 
Owing to the fact that there is now a railway station at 
its eastern foot, Kedah Peak has become very accessible and it 
is one of the easiest mountains to ascend that we have visited. 
From a practical point of view perhaps the most interesting 
feature attaching to it is that at about 3,300 ft. there exists a 
far better site for several hill bungalows than we know of at 
any similar altitude in the Peninsula. 
The ascent from Gurun Station to Padang ’toh Seh, 3,200 
ft., takes about three hours and the return journey about half that 
time. For the first two thousand feet the going is excellent in 
dry weather, a smooth and broad track having been formed by 
the extraction of baulks of timber drawn by buffalo, but as the 
subsoil is clayey this road becomes very slippery after rain 
though it 1s nowhere steep. 
Between 1,500 ft. and 2,500 ft. there are an unusual num- 
ber of flat spaces or slightly rounded ridges such as we have 
noted nowhere else and to this altitude the forest is open, with 
but little undergrowth. 
Padang ’toh Seh is an open, somewhat rocky area (with 
abundant water near by) in a shallow gully between the actual 
summit and a ridge to the north. It is on the main track 
which continues westward and shortly beyond the Padang falls 
