A BOTANICAL EXCURSION TO PULAU ADANG. 47 
above the sea. Curculigo latifolia, a few Pandans and a Lorn- 
stedtia without flowers were the chief plants. A hermit who eats 
only once a year or on occasions once in three months is believed 
to reside here. A furious storm of rain with thunder and lightning 
came on when we were half way down, and we took refuge Deneath 
a rock. On reaching the stream again, we found Gnetum macros- 
lachyum in fruit and on pulling it down brought down a spray of 
a laurineous three new to me. Diplerocarpaceue and Anonaceae, 
some of the former of large size are abundant in the woods. 
In the evening we w ent to Pulau Nipis the point of which is 
a sandy beach with a wood of Casuarinas. Here we found a 
curious creeping form of Wedelia biflora with unusually small 
heads. Tournefortia argentea (new to our flora though a common 
plant on the shores of many of the Malay islands), //ernandia 
pellata and Ochrosia im fruit. None of these at all common in 
our region. Besides these were /ponea-pes-caprae, Scoevola 
Koenig. Cassytha filiformis, Ischoemum muticum, Hibiscus tili- 
aceus, Calophyllum itnophyllum and Verminalia Catappa.  Be- 
hind this seashore-sand was a wood in which were a number of 
Tvoras and Weberas, and hete we found Pogonia flabelliformis in 
leaf and flower, Hulophea greminea, a clump of what appeared to 
be Calanthe vestita in a decayed bough on the ground and Dendro- 
bium secundum. 
Next morning I went to the pomt of Pulau Adang where the 
Casuarina groye was to look for a sedge which Mr. Robinson had 
told me of and found it to be Remirea maritima. The ground 
beneath the Casuarinas was quite bare and the trees bore no epi- 
phytes. The pretty lizard Liolepis Bellii was abundant here. 
Near this point Colubrina asiatica was common and Capparis 
micracantha, in the form of a bush, in fruit. 
Returning to the “ Seabelle” we steamed for Pulau Tengah, 
and on the way was two laller-whales Orca gladiator, a new main- 
mal to peninsular waters. We reached Pulau Tengah by midday. 
Lt ests of two islands separated by a strong running shallow 
sea current, too deep however to wade. On Janding the plant 
collector and I attempted to scale the main hill of the island, the 
top of which was clad by a forest of bananas. The forest was 
dense and consisted mainly of the prickly Phyllochlamys Wallichti 
and strong woody climbers with big trees interspersed. We obtain- 
ed specimens of the banana which proved to be Musa Malaccensis. 
We returned to the base of the Ill and walked along the coast. to 
the north to some very high vertical cliffs. The shore was covered 
with boulders of laterite, slate and indurated clay. he cliffs 
seemed to consist entirely of this brown clay hardened into rock; at 
their base were screes of disentegrated clay, steep and slippery. 
At the base of the hill we found Peristrophe tinctoria, a plant I 
have never seen elsewhere except as a garden escape, but there were 
no signs of this place ever having been under cultivation. On the 
screes we found a new species of Amorphophallus, with a creamy 
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