A SCIENTIFIC EXPEDITION TO TEMENGOH. 11 
of the Dyaks in the hope that we might procure elephants at 
Grit and bring them overland. No elephants however were 
procurable and eventually the collections came down safely by 
raft. We stopped once or twice on the way down to.collect 
plants and to lunch, but these rocks were surprisingly barren 
of anything but common-weeds. --The only rare plant we got 
was the curious creamy yellow flowered Crotalaria chinensis ; 
This seems to be the only recorded locality for this plant in the 
Peninsula: at one spot the rocks were bright with some pink 
flower, and we stopped to see what it was, when it proved to 
be the common pink Celosva argentea, an ordinary waste ground 
plant. Here and there on the rocks were to be seen scarlet 
patches, occasionally partly bright yellow, which so resembled 
Chinese lettering that at first I thought they had been painted 
there by Chinese as a charm but they proved to be patches of 
a searlet alga. Deer were said to be frequently seen on these 
rocks but we saw none, the only animals seen on the way were 
some common monkeys, and an otter swimming across the 
stream. All went well till we got beyond the rocks and to the 
broad part of the river when a deluge of rain came on and we 
had to stop for a time. Eventually it ceased and we arrived 
at Kuala Kenering in the evening. Here we left the baggage 
in a house with the men till next day, and ourselves proceeded 
to walk to Grit, 25 miles. We returned to Kuala Kangsar by 
gharry, the baggage travelling by oxcart. We spent one night. 
at Lenggong, where the plant collector who had arrived pre- 
viously made an excellent haul of plants from the limestone 
hills, and the bird collectors secured the lovely ant-thrush Pitta 
boschw. The full moon was most brilliant that night, and the 
wa-was (Hylobates) seemed to appreciate it, for they kept up 
a continual chorus from both sides of the valley throughout 
the night. We drove from Lenggong to Kuala Kangsar 35 
miles in 4 hours and 40 minutes with the same ponies which 
had brought us from Grit, and then returned to Thaiping. 
The management ofthe expedition was effected by Mr. Robin- 
son and Mr. Kloss to whom I am much indebted for their invit- 
ation to join the expedition and much assistance during the trip. 
R.A. Soc., No. 57, [910. 
