small trees 3-4 m from ground. Soil greyish peaty loam 1 ft. over stiff yellow clay; rock sandstone. 3300 m Elaeocarpus and Alyxia more abundant in regrowths; sandstone. Photos over forest of valley and close up of forest of Podocarpus papuanus including pale green trees (Quintinia) 9.05 3300 m. Homalanthus - spreading young trees 4 ft. high- appear in shrubby regrowths. Rhododendrons common. Travelling slowly. 3280 m. Photo forest edge below. 3260 m. Photo Myrmecodia and Pteridium. 3240 m. Enter forest Podocarpus papuanus and Phyllocladus. Araliaceae, Timonius (??) sp. and Rapanea sp. abundant large trees. Red-hairy Dicksonia plentiful in undergrowth. Heavily mossed ground rooty; slopes steep. 3100 m. Forest 60 ft. high of Phyllocladus but no Podocarpus papuanus. Rather open and very mossy. Araliaceae common in substage. 5060 m. Crossed small brook on swampy flat. Giulianettia sp. very abundant scrambling in deep mounded moss of open forest. Here Podocarpus papuanus predominates on the wet ground. Photo small patch open Gahnia marsh and low Pod. papuanus. 5080 m. Track swings north on a rise topped by a shrubby rather wet clearing or natural opening on which are old native camps. 3040 m. First Pandanus appear in forest. 10.40 2860 m. Well built round native house of double stakes with square hip roof of bark in a Pandanus grove. The first Pandanus grove seen. Stopped to rest. Toxopeus camped here on his trip of a month ago. Left a note instructing the sergeant to wait and continued down the valley at 11.10