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country and the impossibility of getting any view, only the 

 roughest observations could be made. 



Although two out of three plant collectors were ill — one with 

 fever, the other from an injury to his foot — for the greater part 

 of the time in the Tahan River valley, and were, therefore, 

 useless, the collection of herbarium specimens w^as very suc- 

 cessful, over two thousand being obtained. 



H. J. K. 

 Vegetation of Pahang. 



During the expedition no opportunity was lost of collecting 

 plants, and these with the collections made in earlier visits to 

 Pahang (in 1889 and 1890) give a very fair idea of the flora 

 of the low country here, which was hitherto unknown. 



The notes and discriptions of these plants being somewhat 

 voluminous are published elsewhere, but a short account of 

 the flora of Pahang, as far as we have seen it, will not, I think, 

 be out of place. 



The sea-shore at the mouth of the Pahang River and the 

 adjoining heaths country was explored in 1890. This district, 

 so different from any other part of the Malay Peninsula as far as 

 we have seen, produced a number of interesting and new plants. 

 Along the sea-shore is a single row" of Casiiarijias on whose 

 branches grew besides lichens and fungi a curious mistletoe 

 {LorantJms) with leaves and flowers of a bright orange colour. 

 Beneath the trees the ground is covered with pink and white 

 Iponieas, the Porcupine Grass {Spinifex), a very small 

 species of Preinna, and a very pretty violet flowered Vitex 

 apparently a prostrate maritime form of V> Lagiindi which in 

 land forms a small tree. Here and there along the coasts are 

 patches of mangrove, but ovving to the sandy nature of this 

 district they are by no means extensive. From the shore inland 

 and along the river on the left bank to some distance above 

 Pekan extends the sandy heath district interspersed with woods, 

 a very interesting region. Here are bushes of Vacciniinns of 

 two species, with rosy or white sweet-scented flowers and small 

 eatable berries. Eiigenias, Rhodoniyrtus, the Sea Olive, {Olea 

 maritima) Ilex, and many other shrubs, upon whose branches 



