70 NOTES ON A TRIP TO BUKIT ETAM, SELANGOR. 



animals brushing past. There were merely pools of rain wa- 

 ter all along the path, and in the mud the fresh track of a 

 rhinoceros. The jungle on and near the summit is entirely 

 different from that lower down. The trees are stunted and 

 gnarled, and they as well as the ground are thickly clothed 

 with luxuriant moss nearly a foot thick and saturated with 

 moisture. From the top of one of the trees I was able to get 

 a view of the twin peaks of Gunong Hantu and Gunong 

 Besar to the North-East, and setting the coolies to work we 

 made a small clearing which enabled us to get a good view T of 

 the country in the direction of Kwala Lumpur and Klang to 

 the West, and Ulu Selangor to the North- West, with all the 

 intervening country. The ridge of limestone rocks near Batu 

 stands out distinctly like a great wall or dyke running nearly 

 East and West. While the men were at work clearing, I 

 spent the time collecting plants. Amongst those I obtained, 

 were a Rhododendron, a fine Medinilla with a pink flower 

 and red undersides to the leaves, Burmanicea iongifolia with 

 beautiful pale bluish-white flowers hanging in clusters from 

 the top of a stem a foot or eighteen inches high, the glorious 

 Nepenthes sanguined with pouches eight or nine inches in 

 length, a Sotterila, and a large number of orchids — 23 or 

 more species, including a fine Coslogyne ( probably new ), one 

 or two specimens of Spathoglottis aurea, and several species 

 of Anectochilus, one a fine red one with a broad yellow band 

 down the centre, and a green variety of the same, another of 

 a beautiful velvety bronze colour with crimped edges, and an- 

 other of a deep red-brown w 7 ith pink edges and undersides. 

 Few biids were seen on the top of the hill. A species of 

 thrush of a uniform dark brcrrcn colour, and a few small flower- 

 peckers were almost the only ones. Not having a gun I could 

 not obtain specimens. Insects were not numerous. There 

 were some flies and bees, and I got a single specimen of 

 Vanessa perakana and one of Atella sinha. 



Having brought a good supply of kajangs, we made a 

 smart hut about 500 feet higher up than that where we spent 

 the first night, and about half a mile from the crest of the 

 ridge. 



