and collected everything found flowering about the camp site and track. /55 Huls down with malaria -- his first attack. Tuesday, January 17, 1939. Clear morning after a wet stormy night: mist rose and covered the ridge at 6.30 AM - unusually early - and stayed with us most of the time until late afternoon: some light rain about 1-2 PM - clear starry night. Spent the morning preparing plants gathered yesterday and in afternoon collected a few spp. in the gully below the watering place. This gully - barely touched as yet - holds a great many strange ferns. Have 5 spp. of Cyathea to date. Another transport up from the Idenburg. Wednesday, January 18, 1939. Mist rose and covered camp ridge at 7 AM, after a dull dawn: intermittent light rain with the mist after 10 AM: very little sun (perhaps one-half hour in the day): thunder to W., SW and S. between 3 and 7 PM: still misty 8 PM: Here the mists (some times, though rarely, a warm fog) rise from the plains of the Idenburg. In the high mountains they first cover the summits, and gradually creep down the slopes. Van Arcken left at 6.40 AM to establish camp at the 2100 m. site, taking with him the carriers who came up from the Idenburg yesterday. Carriers returned about 5 PM. Gathered about 25 spp. of ferns and a few other plants down the gully beyond the watering place South of camp. Collected today a Balanophora, the first sp. I have taken in New Guinea. It is fairly common on the lower slopes near the creek, in open places well shaded from direct light, such as the inclos- ures between prop-roots of Pandanus.