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MALACCA. 



[chap. 111. 



which the 

 pitcher plants 

 were the most 

 remarkable. 

 These won- 

 derful plants 

 never seem to 



succeed well in our hothouses, 

 and are there seen to little 

 advantage. Here they grew 

 up into half climbing shrubs, 

 their curious pitchers of 

 various sizes and forms hang- 

 ing abundantly from their 

 leaves, and continually excit- 

 ing our admiration by their 

 size and beauty. A few 

 coniferse of the genus Dacry- 

 dium here first appeared, and 

 in the thickets just above 

 the rocky surface we walked 

 through groves of those splen- 

 did ferns Dipteris Horsfieldii 

 and Matonia pectinata, which 

 bear large spreading palmate 

 fronds on slender stems six or eight feet hig;b. 



RAKE FERNS ON MOUNT OPHIR. 



The Matonia 



