6 A SCIENTIFIC EXPEDITION TO TEMENGOH. 
some abundance. On the following day we continued to tra- 
vel in the gharries and arrived at Grit in the afternoon 434 
miles. Part of the road traversed some fine forest in which 
the tall bamboo Dendrocalamus pendulus was conspicuous : 
it is indeed very abundant all over this part of Upper Perak. 
The climbing bamboo Dinochloa tjankorrek was also seen in 
full flower. On our arrival we took up our abode in the 
resthouse. 
Grit is a rather picturesque village which was formerly 
more prosperous but as the tin-mining industry in the neigh- 
bourhood died away the village got poorer and many of the 
houses were empty at the time our visit. A number of fine 
trees of the Tualang, Abauria parvifolia formed a very con- 
spicuous feature of the village. Mr. Berkeley, the District 
Officer, showed us a fine lot of cattle and sheep belonging to 
Government, and took us for a stroll round the village. In one 
garden was a hedge of Acalypha fruticosa cultivated by the 
‘Malays for a kind of tea made from the leaves. Solanum 
envolucratum remarkable for its large calyx was common here. 
I had never previously met with it. It appears to be confined 
to the north of the Peninsula. The curious aquatic aroid 
Cryptocoryne affinis was plentiful in the gravelly bed of a 
stream ; a number of plants in flower were collected here but 
unfortunately the presses containing them were left behind on 
the following day and remained so long before we obtained 
them again that the plants were all spoilt. With Mr. Berke- 
ley’s assistance we engaged eleven elephants to convey our 
baggage to Temengoh. The elephants were a source of much 
interest to the Dyaks who had not seen these animals before. 
On July 5 we started off the elephants with all the baggage 
except one load and a half which was to have come on by 
other elephants next day, but which did not start till we were 
on the return journey. We started walking ourselves on the 
following day at 7.80 a.m. to Kuala Temengoh, 18 miles dis- 
tant, of which most of the way was through forest, and over- 
took the elephants: about four miles from our destination. 
The plant collector and I collected plants all the way and 
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