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INTRODUCTION. 
writings on the flora is surprising. His collections are mainly at 
Kew. 
Thomas Lobb was a plant collector for Veitch about 1847. He 
visited the Himalayas, Borneo, and Java, and came to Singapore 
and Penang in 1848. He collected a good number of herbarium 
specimens besides living plants, and these were distributed later 
labelled Singapore, Lobb, and Java, Lobb, regardless of their 
original localities. Some labelled Singapore were undoubtedly 
obtained in the Himalayas, but most are Penang plants. 
Sir William Norris, Recorder of Penang, was a friend and 
fellow-traveller of Griffith. He collected plants in Penang and 
Malacca and sent a collection to Gardner of Ceylon, who named the 
genus Norrisia after him, and he also sent specimens to Sir William 
Hooker in 1849. 
Dr. Thomas Oxley resided in Singapore in 1843 and left in 
1857, dying i n England in 1886. He wrote papers on Botany 
published in Logan’s Journal, and his name is associated with several 
plants —Durio oxleyanus, etc. 
Surgeon-General Alexander Carroll Maingay. Born 1836. 
Arrived in Malacca in 1862, and was magistrate in charge of the jail 
till 1869, when he left for Rangoon, where he was also in charge of 
the jail, when he was killed in a mutiny the same year. He was in 
Singapore and also in Penang some part of his time, and made most 
important collections in all these places. His Herbarium with 
four volumes of botanical notes and drawings is preserved at Kew. 
It comprises the largest series of plants collected in the Malay 
Peninsula (only approached by Griffith’s collections) up to that 
date. Many plants he obtained in Malacca have not been re-dis¬ 
covered and are perhaps extinct, owing to the extension of cultiva¬ 
tion. His name is commemorated by the genus Maingaya, and also 
associated with many other species. 
Hermann Kunstler, a German, was employed by Dr. King in 
collecting plants, first in Singapore and then in Perak, from 1881 
to 1886. His collections, with excellent descriptive tickets, were 
invaluable, and were distributed to several herbaria. He collected 
chiefly in the Thaiping Hills, near Goping, on Gunong Bubu and 
other localities in south Perak. He left the Malay Peninsula about 
1886 and died in Australia. 
Father Berthold Scortechini was a Roman Catholic 
missionary priest who came from Australia (where he had formerly 
collected plants) to Perak before 1884. He resided at the Perak 
Residency and collected extensively. His collections went to 
Calcutta and, like Kunstler’s, were distributed thence. The dis¬ 
tribution-tickets seldom bear any notes or localities, and I have 
had some difficulty in identifying his localities when he does give 
them. He obtained many plants which have never been re-collected. 
He died in 1886. 
