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so the chimeroid Masdevallias, which perish by the thousand 

 when they are brought down to the hot plains near the coast. 



Another point is that the Kina Balu plants do not grow well 

 with us, and of this fact 1 think the great and at home most 

 robust and luxuriant Nepenthes Bajali is an example. Messrs. 

 Veitch raised it by the hundred, but could not grow it satisfac- 

 torily, try all they would, and the only healthy plant I know of 

 to-day is that in the Odontoglossum house in the Eoyal Botanical 

 Gardens at Glasnevin, in charge of my friend Mr. Fred. Moore. 



My voyage to the then independent Sulu Archipelago was 

 made in the Far East, a well-known little trading steamer from 

 the port of Labuan. We stayed a month at Meimborg, and 

 the Sultan gave me every assistance, and also a share of 

 his princely hospitality. A passport was handed to me, and I 

 had a white pony from the royal stables, which was in itself 

 better than any firman, since no one is allowed to ride on a 

 white pony in the island except the Sultan and his own friends, 

 so that wherever I and the pony went we were well received and 

 treated with every hospitality. Here I discovered the exquisite 

 little Phalanopsis Marie, and the rosy-purple Aerides Burbidgci, 

 also Dendrobium Burbidgei — all, alas ! extremely rare to-day. 

 Here also I found four new species of Ferns, viz. Cyathea 

 suluensis, Poly podium Oxyodon, Pteris T readier iana, and 

 Polypodium Teysii, all determined by Mr. Baker. 



I was lucky in obtaining here also a new species of parroquet 

 and a new jungle fowl, both named by Mr. Bowdler Sharpe, 

 the specimens being in the Natural History Department of the 

 British Museum. 



Perhaps it may be allowable here to give a selection from the 

 plants I was enabled to introduce alive to our gardens from the 

 Far East :— 



1. Nepenthes Bajah, by seed. 



2. Nepentlics bicalcarata, stems in soil. 



3. N. Bafflcsiana v, nivea, by seed, both dry and moist. 



4. Pinanga Veitchii, Wendland, in Ward's cases. 



5. Cypripedium Laiurenceanum, fibre, in Ward's cases. 



,, Dayanum, vars. Petri and Burbidgei. 



C). Jasminum gracillimum, in soil, Ward's cases. 



7. Pothos celatocaulis. 



8. Phalcenopsis grandiflora, Bornean var., cases. 



