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the Gardeners' Chronicle for that year.* During the ten years 

 that followed, seven more species were introduced by my firm, 

 and more hybrids were raised at Chelsea, of which further men- 

 tion will be made presently. The species included some of the 

 finest in the genus ; they were — Bajah and bicalcarata from 

 Borneo, through Burbidge; hirsuta, from the same region through 

 another agency ; madagascariensis, through Curtis; Kenedyana, 

 from North Australia; and Vieillardi, a native of New Caledonia, 

 through the Botanic Garden at Sydney ; and Northiana, through 

 Curtis, from North Borneo, the last-named under circumstances 

 of exceptional interest which I will relate. In the summer of 

 1880, I was invited by the late Miss Marianne North to inspect 

 the collection of drawings she had made during her travels in the 

 Far East; amongst them I came across one of a Nepenthes which 

 I at once saw was a new species. On making inquiry respecting 

 its habitat, she could only inform me that while staying in north- 

 east Borneo, a native brought her a pitcher with which she was 

 so much struck that she at once made a drawing of it. It 

 happened at that time that we were about to send a collector to 

 Malaysia, and Curtis undertook the mission. Miss North very 

 kindly allowed him to see the drawing, and she also gave him 

 such information as she possessed respecting its habitat. Curtis 

 received special orders from us to try and introduce the plant into 

 Europe. He told me on his return that he had experienced 

 much difficulty in finding the plant, that he had searched for it 

 many days in vain, and had even decided on giving up the search, 

 in the belief that Miss North had been wrongly informed respect- 

 ing the locality in which it grows. Before leaving the place it 

 occurred to him to look over a steep escarpment in the hill-side, 

 which he accomplished by lying prostrate on the ground, and to 

 his great joy he discovered the plant growing at some distance 

 beneath him. He succeeded in reaching it, and happily found 

 some seed capsules, which he lost no time in transmitting to 

 Chelsea, where the seed soon germinated. Dr. Masters at our 

 request dedicated this fine species to the excellent lady who 

 helped us to introduce it ; it has proved to be one of the most 

 tractable under cultivation as it is one of the handsomest of the 

 genus (Fig. 46). 



During a second mission to Malaysia in 1882-83, Curtis sent 

 * Pp. 510-542. 



