HORTUS VEITCHII 



Colombia for Cattleya Mendelii, C. Schroderae, C. Trianse 

 and Odontoglossum crispum (Alexandra), and finally in 1896, 

 having spent a short time in England, Burke left for the 

 Celebes Islands and the Moluccas, and in the island of 

 Amboina, belonging to the last-named group, he died on 

 April llth 1897. 



Burke was one of those curious natures who live more or 

 less with natives as a native, and apparently prefer this mode 

 of existence ; his early death is partly due to this cause, and 

 there is little doubt that this sad event occurred in a lonely 

 hut far from any European settlement, and, had it not been 

 for information sent by a German commercial traveller, 

 apparently the only white man in that part of the island 

 at the time, Messrs. Veitch would not have -heard of Burke's 

 ultimate fate. 



