130 COLLECTING EXPEDITION TO BATANG PADANG. 
being extremely elegant, both in form and colouring. Sucha 
luxuriant and beautiful growth of moss I had never seen before. 
In the scrub near the summit, Ahododendrons of many species 
are common, one of them growing into quite a large tree, but 
unfortunately no flowers of this plant could be found. Another 
species has the petals of the flower yellow and the tube orange- 
red, another white, and a pretty little round-leaved one has 
crimson flowers. 
An orchid of considerable beauty grows not far from the top, 
and seems to be a very free flowerer. It isa purplish flowered 
Dendrobium. lalso collected some plants of a very pretty 
Anezctochilus ; it resembles A. setaceus very closely, but the 
leaves instead of being dark red-brown veined with yellow, are 
rather pale velvety green, with pure white veining. Un- 
fortunately it was not in flower, so I had to take the plants, 
which when planted in baskets may, if they live, yield flowers, 
and the species may ultimately be determined. In all we 
collected over 50 botanical specimens, and had there been time 
and some more men to carry them we might have got many 
more. 
It was a beautifully fine day, but the distance, as is so often 
the case in dry, hot weather, was rather hazy. The view, 
however, from the summit was splendid, but it is quite im- 
possible to describe it, and owing to want of time, I could not 
make any sketches. To the East, looking down into Pahang, 
there 1s nothing to be seen in the way of mountains, as far as 
the eye could reach. The country seems to consist of large 
broad valleys, with a few ranges of small hills. On these hills 
we could see many Sakai clearings as well as clearings in the 
valleys, which are probably Malay. The thickness of the range 
at this point is very little. I should not think it can be more 
than eight miles. JTothe South no large hills are visible for 
many miles, but to the North the hill country expands and 
broadens out, and peak upon peak can be made out stretching 
away into the far distance. 
Gunong Batu Puteh is, therefore, the end of the range of 
higher hills going southwards, though the range again rises 
into some lofty peaks in Slim. ; 
