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the cross " lias taken " is often evident by a visible change in 

 the seed-pod from its normal shape and size, so that it is some- 

 times possible at the time of gathering to separate the 

 cross-fertilised from the self-fertilised seed. Of late years I have 

 been careful to obtain either pollen or the bulbs of my seed- 

 parents from a distance, to ensure that differentiation which has 

 been proved so beneficial in other plants, and can already see a 

 resulting improvement in the character of my seedlings. 



I must not discourse of the value of my own flowers from 

 the florist's point of view, but may perhaps be allowed to point 

 to my hybrids of N. triandrus, to such flowers as my " Albatross" 

 and " Sea-gull," which constitute a somewhat distinct class, to 

 my improved forms of N. poeticus, a beautiful race, which is as 

 susceptible of improvement as the trumpet Daffodils, and to my 

 hybrids of double Narcissi, as an argument that the potentialities 

 of this fine spring flower are, for the painstaking hybridiser, by 

 no means exhausted. 



BOTANICAL EXPLORATION IN BORNEO. 



By Mr. F. W. Burbidge, M.A., F.L.S., Curator of Trinity College 

 Botanical Gardens, Dublin. 



[Read April 24, 1894.] 



It seems a little presumptuous, perhaps, on my part to lecture 

 on Bornean exploration, seeing that so much has been done by 

 Sir Hugh Low, the friend and secretary of the late Sir James 

 Brooke, or, as he was more familiarly called, " The Rajah of 

 Sarawak." Rajah Brooke, Sir Hugh Low, and the present Sir 

 Spencer St. John, after the Dutch, were really amongst the 

 original explorers of Borneo, and to them is mainly due England's 

 interest in the country, and the commercial importance of the 

 Borneo of to-day. 



To Sir Hugh Low we are especially indebted for one of the 

 earliest and best of books * on the Sarawak territory, and it was 

 he who orginally discovered the noble flora of Kina Balu, and sent 

 to Kew years ago specimens of the finest Nepenthes and Orchids 

 * Low's " Sarawak." 



