140 COLLECTING EXPEDITION TO BATANG PADANG. 
doing, have died within the last nine months. ‘That is, Messrs. 
SCORTECHINI, KUNSTLER, CAMERON, and now Mr. EVANS. 
I found when I came to put the collection of plants into 
paper, that they numbered 34 species, so that although owing 
to the state of the weather we were not able to make any 
topographical notes, the number of plants compensated, in a 
measure, for the discomforts of the trip. 
In the evening HARISON was taken ill with diarrhoea, and 
was writhing and groaning with violent pains in the stomach, 
which we thought might be the beginning of an attack of chole- 
ra, but it fortunately passed off after one dose of chlorodyne and 
brandy, which quieted him and sent him off to sleep. 
Six Sakais had come up in the afternoon with the remainder 
of the things, which they left at the lower camp, and on the 
11th they carried down the baggage from the upper camp, and 
we all moved down in the afternoon. Unfortunately JELLAH 
had an attack of fever, and MAHRASIT was laid up with swollen 
feet and legs, thus reducing the workers by two. Quite close 
to the house was a tall tree which had been partly cut through, 
but had not fallen, so I got the Sakais to go on cutting it, as 
the cut had been begun so high up the stem that my remaining 
Malay would not attempt it, for it required the agility of a 
monkey to climb down from the stage to get clear of the tree 
when falling. The wood was very tough and hard and it was 
not till about 8 o’clock that it came crashing down. For about 
an hour or so the Sakais had to work by the hight of dammars. 
Next morning (12th) I found it was a species of oak, and 
obtained fruiting specimens of it and of three other trees 
knocked down by it. I also collected 21 other species of 
plants, and caught a butterfly, a new species of the genus 
Loxura, besides several other insects. That rare and beau- 
tiful butterfly Clerome fannula seemed to be quite common, 
and also a Delias nearly allied to D. parthenope. The latter 
extends up to the summit and was the only butterfly I noticed 
there. C/lerome fannula \ find to be a very variable species, 
the variation being present in both sexes. The extremes 
of variation I took at first to be distinct species, but a larger 
series of specimens showed that there were intermediate, 
connecting links, joining the two. 
