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writings on the flora is surprising. His collections are mainly at 

 Kew. 



Thomas Lobb was a plant collector for Veitch about 1847. He 

 visited the Himalayas, Borneo, and Java, and came to Singapore 

 and Penang in 1848. He collected a good number of herbarium 

 specimens besides living plants, and these were distributed later 

 labelled Singapore, Lobb, and Java, Lobb, regardless of their 

 original localities. Some labelled Singapore were undoubtedly 

 obtained in the Himalayas, but most are Penang plants. 



Sir William Norris, Recorder of Penang, was a friend and 

 fellow-traveller of Grifftth. He collected plants in Penang and 

 Malacca and sent a collection to Gardner of Ceylon, who named the 

 genus Norrisia after him, and he also sent specimens to Sir William 

 Hooker in 1849. 



Dr. Thomas Oxley resided in Singapore in 1843 and left in 

 1857, dyi^g ii^ England in 1886. He wrote papers on Botany 

 published in Logan's Journal, and his name is associated with several 

 plants — Durio oxleyanus, etc. 



Surgeon-General Alexander Carroll Maingay. Born 1836. 

 Arrived in Malacca in 1862, and was magistrate in charge of the jail 

 till i86g, when he left for Rangoon, where he was also in charge of 

 the jail, when he was killed in a mutiny the same year. He was in 

 Singapore and also in Penang some part of his time, and made most 

 important collections in all these places. His Herbarium with 

 four volumes of botanical notes and drawings is preserved at Kew. 

 It comprises the largest series of plants collected in the Malay 

 Peninsula (only approached by Griffith's collections) up to that 

 date. Many plants he obtained in Malacca have not been re-dis- 

 covered and are perhaps extinct, owing to the extension of cultiva- 

 tion. His name is commemorated by the genus Maingaya, and also 

 associated with many other species. 



Hermann Kunstler, a German, was employed by Dr. King in 

 collecting plants, first in Singapore and then in Perak, from 1881 

 to 1886. His collections, with excellent descriptive tickets, were 

 invaluable, and were distributed to several herbaria. He collected 

 chiefly in the Thaiping Hills, near Goping, on Gunong Bubu and 

 other localities in south Perak. He left the Malay Peninsula about 

 1886 and died in Australia. 



Father Berthold Scortechini was a Roman Catholic 

 missionary priest who came from Australia (where he had formerly 

 collected plants) to Perak before 1884. He resided at the Perak 

 Residency and collected extensively. His collections went to 

 Calcutta and, like Kunstler's, were distributed thence. The dis- 

 tribution-tickets seldom bear any notes or localities, and I have 

 had some difficulty in identifying his localities when he does give 

 them. He obtained many plants which have never been re-collected. 

 He died in 1886. 



