ACATALOGUEOFTHEFLOWERINGPLANTS AND FERNS, &G 16; 



known plants which bear his name are AescJiynanthus Lobbii 

 and Dipteris Lobbiafia. 



Surgeon- General Maingay resided in Malacca from 1863 

 to 1868 and thence visited Penang and made extensive col- 

 lections of plants, in both these places as well as in Singa- 

 pore. After his death in the Andaman islands in 1870, his 

 collections were bequeathed to Kew and the plants described 

 in the Flora of British India and other publications. Most of 

 the species said to have been collected by him in Penang 

 have been since rediscovered, but perhaps some of those 

 which have not been met with again have been wrongly 

 localised as his plant-tickets often had no localities mark- 

 ed on them. 



The flora of Penang has probably altered but little since 

 Wallich's time. There has not been here the extensive 

 denudation of forests which has occurred in Singapore, but 

 without doubt the flora of the lowl) ing country especially near 

 the town has undergone much change. Large as the number 

 of known species in so limited an area is, without doubt many 

 more remain undiscovered and with them perhaps we shall 

 get again most of those formerly found only by the earlier 

 collectors. In this catalogue the earlier authorities are only 

 quoted for species which have not been seen of late years, 



H. N. R. 



