ACCOUNT OF A TRIP UP THE PAHANG, AND ^THER RIVERS. 5 I 



carmine was abundant. The limestone region of Kota Glanggi, 

 was also a field of great intereU. The rocks and adjoining 

 woods abounded in remarkable and curious plants. Trichopits 

 zeylaJiicus, a small herbaceous plant allied to the yams was 

 abundant. This plant has not hitherto been collected in the 

 Malay Peninsula, being only known from Ceylon and Southern 

 India; Begonias, Elatostemmas and ferns, clothed the rocks, 

 and on the higher parts were many orchids, including several 

 new species of Sarcochilus and Saccolabiuni. The curious Ari- 

 scenia fijnbriatinn, and several species of Amorphophalhis, 

 Peperoinia portnlacoides (a dwarf succulent plant not hitherto 

 known except in Southern India), a very fine violet flowered 

 Calanthe and many other plants of interest were collected 

 here. At Kuala Tembeling a good lot of rare and curious plant'^ 

 were met with, both on the river banks and in the woods a 

 little way inland, of which the most interesting were the yel- 

 low dead nettle, GonipJwsteinina, and the parasitic Bruginansia, 

 one of the Rafflesiaceoe, (the first of this order recorded from 

 the Malay Peninsula, although Mr. Wray tells me he has 

 long known of the occurrence of the Rafflesia itself in Perak). 

 The Bniginansia, which is a native also of Borneo, was found 

 growing on the prostrate stem of a vine, in a dense thicket of 

 tall Scitaminece on the borders of a wood, about two miles 

 from the river. 



In the more open woods here and elsewhere in this part of 

 Pahang grows a very beautiful yellow flowered Dillenia well 

 worthy of cultivation. Another interesting tree which occur- 

 red here was the "Kapayung" or '' Payung, " {Pangiiimedule). 

 The fruit of this tree produces a rather coarse oil used by the 

 natives in medicine and also for attracting fish. An old Malay 

 fisherman, whom we met here, had a bamboo full of the pound- 

 ed seeds, in the form of a dark brown oily mess. He put a 

 little into the water of the river near a deep hole, where, after 

 waiting a few minutes, we fired a charge of dynamite and took 

 a fairly large number of fish. 



Along the Tembeling River, the forests came down in many 

 places closer to the water's edge, but the collections made 

 here were more scanty as the expedition was hurrying on . 



