70 FLOWERS OF BORNEO. 



The others cannot be enumerated, but one which ap- 

 proaches the Nepenthes boschianus of the Dutch must 

 be mentioned on account of the elegance of its foliage 

 and the beauty of its purple flowers : it produces small 

 tubical pitchers, but in the greatest profusion ; it is a 

 climbing plant on low shrubs, generally covering them to 

 the height of about eight feet : it grows near the sea, 

 on rocky places, and, as I have said before, is strikingly 

 handsome ; if it be different from the boschianus, as I 

 have no doubt it is, I should wish it to bear the name 

 of the celebrated botanist, Dr. Lindley, whose kindness 

 and advice have been always most beneficial to me. 



It would be out of place, were I to occupy more 

 space in a work of this nature in enumerating all the 

 beauties of the kingdom of Flora displayed by the 

 forests of this beautiful land ; and as they would be un- 

 interesting to many, I will let those already noticed 

 suffice, as they are quite numerous enough to show any 

 one interested in flowers that those of Borneo are in- 

 ferior to very few of the neighbouring islands or other 

 tropical countries. 



