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to the river, which is not far from the houses. Rain 

 during the night had caused the cuiTent to run strong and 

 high, and none of our men dare venture across. We had 

 a rope for such emergencies, and my interpreter, a lusty 

 Badjow, named Suong, swam across and tied it fast to 

 a tree. It was now easy for om* men to cross, and we all 

 got over safely. A little higher up we had to recross 

 again, but the current here was stronger, and all the 

 goods had to be carried across by our Dusun followers, 

 who had accompanied " Gantang," the headman of Sine- 

 roup. Fortunately nobody was drowned, but the time 

 occupied in crossing was so long and we were all so tired 

 with our exertions that we were glad to stay at a wayside 

 village iustead of gomg on to Kambatuan as we had 

 desii-ed. We saw a good many attractive plants to-day, 

 but unfortunately the dangerous difficulties of our journey 

 left us but little time for collecting. And yet, although 

 hungry and fatigued to a degree which no one can 

 imagine who has not travelled in a tropical land without 

 roads or bridges, one could but feel enthusiasm as ferns 

 of filmy beauty, orchids of curious structure and vivid 

 colours, graceful glumales, flowering shrubs and palms, 

 met our eager eyes for the first time. 



One of my first " finds " this morning was a singular 

 bolbophyllum, which grew on the branch of a tree over a 

 stream, and which, as I had from the first suspected, has 

 turned out to be " quite new." It has been named, in grati- 

 tude to the Hon. P. Leys,M.B., Colonial Surgeon of Labuan, 

 B. Leysianum, Rchb. f. Its structure is so very extra- 

 ordinary that nothing but an engraving could give any 

 adequate idea of its characteristics. A ci-eamy flowered 

 dendrobium (D. cerinum, Rchb. f.), grew on trees here 

 and there, bearing its flowers in clusters, and a dwarf 

 cymbidium (C. Spinksianuia, Rchb. f.), was also met with 



