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plant had then been in his houses six or seven years. In the 

 same year Sims figured and described gracilis in the Botanical 

 Magazine* under the name of Phyllamjjhora, in the belief that 

 it was the same species as that described by Loureiro. This was 

 followed in 1828 by a figure and description by Professor 

 Graham, of Edinburgh, of Khasiana as distillatoria,^ so that 

 three species had been introduced before the close of the third 

 decade, but soon lost, a circumstance not to be wondered at 

 seeing that the cultural requirements of these plants were then 

 but imperfectly understood, and the stoves of that age, heated by 

 brick flues and tan beds, were totally unsuited for them. In the 

 meantime the Dutch botanists, Blume and Korthals, stationed at 

 Buitenzorg, in Java, had brought to light several species previously 

 unknown, the latter of whom published in 1842 a list or mono- 

 graph of the species known to him. And two more had been 

 discovered in the Philippines by Blanco, who gives a curious 

 account of them in his " Flora Philippinensis," which appeared in 

 1837. 



By far the most remarkable discovery of new species was 

 made in 1851 by Sir Hugh Low, who, in the face of the most 

 discouraging difficulties, succeeded in making the ascent of 

 Mount Kina Balu, in Borneo, where he was rewarded for his 

 toil by finding four of the finest species known — namely, Bajah, 

 Edwardsiana, Lowii, and villosa. He failed, however, to intro- 

 duce any of these species, but he brought home excellent dried 

 materials which enabled Sir Joseph Hooker to give a lucid 

 account of them in a paper read before the Linnean Society in 

 June 1859, and subsequently published in the Transactions of 

 the Society. With a view, if possible, of securing these remark- 

 able plants, Thomas Lobb, acting under instructions from the 

 late Mr. James Veitch, reached the foot of Kina Balu in 1856, 

 but was prevented from ascending the mountain by the hostility 

 and extortion of the natives. In 1858 Sir Hugh Low again 

 made the ascent in company with Mr. Spenser St. John, but 

 again failed to get plants home alive. Mr. St. John gives some 

 interesting particulars of these Nepenthes, dried pitchers of all 

 of which are before you, as seen in their native home, and also a 

 fresh pitcher of Bajah kindly sent to me by Mr. F. W. Moore, of 

 Glasnevin, to whom 1 gladly avail myself of this opportunity of 

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