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flowering season is past, the C. Bethunianum does not lose all its 
charms: the crimson bracts and calyces persist, and the latter 
contain each a four-seeded berry of the richest blue colour. 
The Seitaminee, an Order of plants not much cultivated in Eng- 
land, produces some beautiful species in Borneo, especially A/pinia. 
A fine white-flowered Bignonia is lovely and fragrant; and 
an “chites, also found on river-banks, is handsome and endowed 
with a rich perfume. 
Melastomas grow everywhere, and supply the many-hued 
pigeons with abundant food in the soft and pulpy fruit. 
There are several charming kinds of climbers in Borneo : 
among the most conspicuous is an undescribed Banhinia, 
which, in December, invests the trees with large bunches of 
gaudy crimson blossoms. Hoya imperialis is very striking : its 
large rich purple flowers are relieved by an ivory-white centre. 
Various beautiful species of Comérefum abound. ‘The Order 
Cyrtandracee is rich in the genera Lysinotus and Aschynan- 
thus: the L. Aucklandie surpassing all the others in the size and 
gorgeous hue of its clustered blossoms, while its growth and 
woody stems raise it to the dignity of a shrub. 
The vegetable productions of the mountains in Borneo, are 
quite different from those above enumerated. There, the genus 
Dacrydium, and other, Zaxacea, recall the Fir and Cypress of 
our northern clime. “erbaceous plants, some of which are 
beautiful, grow on the exposed and damp rocks; while in mossy 
places, the charming golden-leaved Anectocheilus and a new and 
still finer species of the same genus abound. 
No fewer than eight species of the wonderful Pitcher-plants 
have been discovered in the western part of Borneo. In some 
instances, the pitcher would contain more than a pint of water. 
Those of Nepenthes Raffesiana are generally crimson. This species 
chiefly inhabits rocky islands near Singapore, and is easily known 
by its white and pulverulent stems and bushy habit, not exceeding 
four or five feet high. The largest kind found in Borneo, and which 
Mr. Low calls V. Hookeriana, inhabits deep and shaded jungles, 
where it climbs to the very tops of the trees. Its pitchers are 
nine inches long, and the lid is furnished with two broad and 
beautifully fringed wings: like WV. Raffesiana it produces two 
Kinds of pitchers, one broad and crimson, the other long, 
trumpet-shaped, and of a green colour spotted with crimson ; 
While the leaves are dark green above and of a fine peach- 
coloured red beneath. : 
V. ampullacea also climbs and is an inhabitant of the jungles, 
matting the ground with its shoots and only producing pitchers 
