ten feet high seemed remarkable. 
I found a moss close to tie ground upon the knee- 
roots of trees, Aurostichum aureum is very common. 
Soon after noon v any of the flowers of Mimosa 
pudica- faded* 
I left Port Swettenham in the S.S. "Lama”* towards 
evening. 
A BOTAHISIHCr upon 
PUL ATT TlhUGI and 
PUL ATT TIUMAJ'T. June 
15th* , 1915 I left Singapore with 
K. 0.Robinson and V # Knight in the Fisheries launch 11 Shark 11 • 
* 
There is described a, visit to Pulau Tinggi in the Journal 
of the Indian Archipelago vol.5, p. 140', by Thomson. 
June 16th, We arrived off Pula u Tinggi at a 
little after noon. There mas rain about; but the* period 
A 
befor,o our visit had on P. Tinggi been dry.-, " r e got the 
use of a house in the village close to the sea. 
The 
village 
li s 
along a sandy 
beach i 
//Ith coral 
rock 
under 
i t at 
no 
depth, so that 
graves 
have to be 
built 
up. 
Jus t 
behing 
th village* 
a little 
stream has 
removed the 'top soil and exposed the coral. 
This littl<e stream I crossed and reached the base 
of the hill through a coconut plantation. 
In part of the' village Thou re a. is <the ruling gras 
and in .art Centotheea ’lappacea. The village is shaded by 
coconuts and with 1 them ere one or two Sasuarinas. 
ITephrole'pIs is coramon everywl ere, especially- behind 
-the 
village 
where 
it rules* 
and 
makes £ 
i bed about four 
feet 
deep. 
The re 
is j us t a 
, 1 i t 
tie Pteridi \m agui 1 inun 
w i f h 
it. 
among 
the tather 
newly 
planted 
coconuts. 
In the short grass of the village here and there are 
Amaryllis plants without flowers,a Solanum with*bright red 
berries, Bryophyllam ©alyciriura, and Kalanchoe la.ciniata* 
The whole population of the island, the villagers 
say is 150. They make copra, and get what they require 
