Appendix. 34; 



the name of my whilom travelling companion, P. C. M. 

 Veitch, Esq. 



Rhododendron stenophylliun. and Nepenthes Biirhidgei, 

 Hook, f., were two of the more remarkable of the new 

 plants fi-om Kina Balu itself, where also the gigantic 

 moss Baicsonia superba was collected at an altitude of 

 6,000 feet, these specimens being, as Mr. Mitten informs 

 me, the first obtained northwards of New Zealand. 



The three native com'ts of Jahore, Brunei, and Sulu 

 were visited, and I was enabled^ to make extended excur- 

 sions into the interior of the main island of Sulu itself. 

 In Borneo the flora was remarkable for endemic Malasian 

 species, intermixed more especially at high altitudes with 

 Indian (JRhododendra) and Australian (Dacrydiwn, Phyllo- 

 cladus, Drosera, etc.) types. In Sulu both the flora and 

 fauna showed, as was to be expected, a marked re- 

 semblance to those of the Philippine and Celebes groups. 

 My collections in Sulu comprised new ferns, rare mosses, 

 and several beautiful new orchids, including Phalcenopsis 

 Marie, Dendrohium Burbidgei (which is mainly remark- 

 able as being similar to the D. d'Albertisii discovered 

 about the same time in New Guinea). Here also the 

 lovely pink-blossomed Aerides Burbidgei, Echb. f., was 

 obtained, and several other species and varieties at pre- 

 sent unnamed. 



The Sulu voyage was in many ways enjoyable, but 

 especially as being to a virgin land botanically and orni- 

 thologically, and I must here take the opportunity of ac- 

 knowledging my obligations to Captain W. C. Cowie, of the I 

 steamship Far East, who gave me every accommodation 

 during the voyage from Labuan, and while we lay in the 

 little harboiu: at Meimbong. As will be seen, my ornitho- 

 logical discoveries in Sulu were a new species of jungle 

 cock {Gallus stramineicollis) , and a new paroquet (Tanyg- 



