APPENDIX. 



The main object of my journey eastward was the col- 

 lection and introduction of beautiful new plants to the 

 Veitchian Collection at Chelsea. Botanical specimens 

 were obtained and preserved whenever practicable, as 

 also were bii'ds and other objects of natural history. I was 

 fortunate in adding about fifty new species of ferns to the 

 lists of those already collected in Borneo, and of this 

 number, as will be seen from the following report, about 

 twenty were absolutely new to science. Perhaps the 

 greatest good fortune which attended my exertions was 

 the introduction alive of the Giant Pitcher Plant of Kina 

 Balu {Nepenthes Rajah, Hook. f.). This wonderful plant 

 and its geographical allies were discovered in 1851 by 

 Hugh Low, Esq., C.M.G., and were figured and described 

 by Sir Joseph D. Hooker, K.C.S.I., in Vol. xxii. of the 

 Transactions of the Linntean Society. Mr. Low made 

 repeated journeys to Kina Balu from Labuan, but unfor- 

 tunately failed in his endeavours to introduce these fine 

 plants to European gardens in a living state. Mr^Thps. 

 Lobb, one of the most successful of all Eastern plant 

 hunters, attempted to reach the habitat of these plants in 

 1856, but was prevented by the natives. These plants 

 are very remarkable, and, so far as is at present known, 

 exist only on this one mountain in Borneo. 



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