A TRIP TO GUNONG BENOM. . 9 
before we started down one of the coolies was very badly stung 
on the body—so badly indeed that he got high fever and could 
carry nothing and almost had to be carried himself. I saw him 
about a week later and the eruption was still visible on his chest. 
Hither therefore renyas proper existed on the hill or else “rengas 
manak” is not harmless. — 
The palawan trees were a great nuisance. The wood was 
so hard that the bliong’s in the hands of the less expert 
coolies were badly gapped and I was obliged to order that one 
exceptionally good man should tackle them all. The tree 
seemed to me exactly like the palawan so common on river 
banks. 
On the very top of the hill there was a good deal of 
* chandan” which Mr. Ridley has identified in a paper recently 
published in the Journal. 
Threughout the whole trip I saw no getah, taban, chinga, 
merbau, petaling, or other valuable timber. On the lowest slopes 
of the hill there were however many fine “seraia” trees. The 
whole of the specimens identified by Mr. Ridley: were collected 
on the top of the hill at a height of almost exactly 5000 feet. 
The Benom ‘ massif” consists of granite and I noticed 
that the sedimentary rocks were left behind very soon after 
leaving the low ground along the foot of the main range; they 
are found much higher up and in some places places higher than 
1000 feet above sealevel. Benom isan isolated granite intrusion 
without visible igneous connection with the main-range. In the 
long plain running southward from Raub the ridges which 
divide the Klan Bilut and Bentong are from their appearance of 
sedimentary rock. One of them Gunong Raca which overlooks 
Bentong township is of course conglomerate. ‘This conglomer- 
ate is seen also at Jeram Kapur below Bentong. The pebbles 
in it are as far as I could see, not of igneous rocks but of 
quartzite and silicified slate. Its strike is a few points West 
of North and East of South and its dip (apparently) very steep. 
Similar conglomerates occur in the Ulu Jelai. The metamorphic 
limestone cliffs off Serdam at the foot of Benom seem identical 
in composition with those at Bukit Chintamani on the Bentong 
river and indeed with all the other limestones scattered, mostly 
in isolated cliffs throughout the Peninsula. In the Jelai river 
R. A. Soe., No. 39, 1903. 
