'"but from from 15 ft* the whole surface of the trunk 
j s 
* 
i as thickly bes/et with hr and e s in a remarkahly 
* * 
dense way, 
hear the top of Bukit Treh the vegetation changes 
* 
slightly. Quercus cyrtorrhyncl a appeared and with it a, 
very little Gleiohenia* There were no openings in the 
forest; hut tl e vegetation was more mixed, and probably 
i 1 .. 
owing to exposure it more frequently happens that a 
tree is overturned on the summit and in that way sun- 
• * . , 
light enough let in for the Gleiohenia, Alangium begem- 
aefoliam was present; and Dipterccarpus grandifolius 
seemed to* he common. The hig leaved Garcinia nervosa 
* 
was there also. 
A P 
ink C an a va 1i a. 
was seen upon 
i 
the 
sea-shore, 
4 
The shore 
carries two 
species of mangrove 
as well as 
Lurnnitzera 
coccinea. One 
of the two has 
a 
trunk arising 
t>‘ V 
from the 
sand without 
stilt roots, a.nd 
the 
other \ hick. 
at the same time goes furthest out to sea, lias stilt 
t 
roots. 
t >, < 
K 
he descended the Mil upon a very steep face, 
* 
* 
As soon as the tor> was left the Orania palms X3QQOC 
reappeared ; and rattans became less abundant. The 
♦ 
herbs upon the slo e were those seen before,- Homalonem 
and the other aroid with silvery leaves (surely Schisma- 
♦ * 
toglottis). A fern- was collected I alf way down \ just at 
the foot of the steepest part Pandanus HHullettii 
4 
was obtained. 
* 
It' happened 
that we reached tl Sungei Treh at 
a v 
slid- tl^ higher place than n the previous occasion; 
4 ” " *'' " 4 
but the vegetation ■ .as just as ' poor. 
t 
At the village is a very little Andropogon 
acicularis, & Sida with ovate leaves, P ssiflcr a foetida, 
1 6ya nummulatia, Ac! y ran the s aspera, Capsicum, Aleurites 
raoluccana, Tamarindus indica, 
an cl K i 1) i s cu s Ros; s i n e n s i s . 
