1 66 A CATALOGUE OF THE FLOWERING PLANTS AND FERNS, &C. 



lowing notes. Mr. Phillips was appointed Secretary to Gov- 

 ernment in 1800, and became Collector of Customs and Land 

 Revenues in 1805, and eventually Governor it 1820. He re- 

 tired in 1824, being presented then by the inhabitants of Pe- 

 nang with a gold cup. He was an able man and gave special 

 attention to the land question which he seems thoroughly to 

 have understood. He resided at Suffolk House where Craw- 

 furd visited him in 1819, and describes the place as an English 

 gentleman's mansion and park where cloves and nutmegs 

 in full bearing were substituted for oaks, elms, and ashes. 

 The grounds contained two to three hundred spotted deer. 

 It was he who started the Aver Hitam gardens. 



The next botanist who appears at Penang was a Colonel 

 Walker who in or about 1837 collected a number of plants 

 which were distributed to various European Museums. 



In 1842 or thereabouts George Griffith came as Govern- 

 ment Botanist to Malacca, He was well known for his explor- 

 ations in Assam, where he had made extensive collections. He 

 seems never to have visited Penang but received a few plants 

 thence from T. Lewis, Assistant Resident Councillor, after 

 whom he named Appendicida Lewisii and Calamus Lewi- 

 sianns. 



Amongst other collectors who sent plants to England about 

 thio time may be mentioned Sir WiLLIAM NORRIS (after 

 whom Norrisia was named) who sent specimens to Sir Wil- 

 liam Hooker, and Lady Dalhousie, who is better known 

 for her Botanical work in the Himalayas but who sent home 

 also a collection of plants from Penang. 



William Lobb, an Orchid collector lor Messrs. Veitch 

 visited this region in 1845 '^^ search of ornamental plants 

 for cultivation and besides sending home many plants alive, 

 made a collection of dried specimens, which have been 

 distributed to various Herbaria. Unfortunately many of these 

 were either not at all or wrongly localised and as he 

 collected not only in Penang and Singapore but also in 

 Borneo and the Philippine islands, some of the plants quoted 

 in books as, "Penang LOBB," were really collected in the 

 further islands of the Malay Archipelago. Among the well- 



