summit, 1/2 hour to the N., and some littledistance down the spur leading to the Sauweri. A climbing bamboo with narrow leaves, common at camp altitude and extending below the 1800 m. camp, fills the forest above about 2150 m. and practically excludes undergrowth and substage trees. The forest there is on that account fairly open overhead. The bamboo not so thick as on the Wharton Range and easy to cut through. Whole camp turned out at 8 PM to take down the dining, preparation and drying flies which violent squalls threatened to tear to pieces. Only mist with these squalls. Wind blew in strong gusts till daylight, booming my badly rigge tent and keeping me awake much of the night. February 6th. A wild-looking though fairly clear dawn after the storm, but the Idenburg under clouds after 6.30 and the mountains soon after obscured. Almost con- tinuous mist after 9 AM with driving misty rain in afternoon. Wind changed from S-SW to NE late in afternoon. A squally evening with driving mist. To investigate a report brought from the 1800 m. camp by a lone convict, Van Arcken made the journey down and returned for lunch. The wind last night had uprooted a big tree which fell across the soldiers quarters, partly wrecked our dining fly in which some supplies and specimens were stored, and smashed the poles which had held my tent. The convict, the only one in the camp, had his bed over the roots of the tree and finding himself being lifted in the air, gave the alarm in time for the soldiers to escape. Some of their Panjies were flattened by the fall of the tree. Teerink and Toxopeus arrived at Bernhard Camp yesterday. The river, which has been rising steadily for some days, is now flooding the radio shack. There is therefore little dry ground in the camp. Collected down the water-supply creek to 2000 m. The gully flora unexpectedly poor. Few ferns, only one Begonia (a sp. common at 1800 m.) and the Pilea or