APPENDIX.
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T he mam object of my journey eastward was the collection
and introduction of beautiful new plants to the
Veitchian Collection at Chelsea. Botanical specimens
were obtained and preserved whenever practicable, as
also were birds and other objects of natural history. I was
fortunate m adding about fifty new species of ferns to the
lists of those already collected in Borneo, and of this
number, as will be seen from the following report, about
twenty were absolutely new to science. Perhaps the
greatest good fortune which attended my exertions was
the introduction alive of the Giant Pitcher Plant of Kina
Balu {Nepenthes Rajah, Hook. f.). This wonderful plant
and its geographical allies were discovered in 1851 by
Hugh Low, Esq., C.M.G., and were figured and described
by Sir Joseph D. Hooker, K.C.S.I., in Vol. xxii. of the
Transactions of the Linnsean Society. Mr. Low made
repeated journeys to Kina Balu from Labuan, but unfortunately
failed m his endeavours to introduce these fine
plants to European gardens in a living state. Mr. Thos.
Lobb, one of the most successful of all Eastern plant
hunters, attempted to reach the habitat of these plants in
1856, but was prevented by the natives. These plants
are very remarkable, and, so far as is at present known
exist only on this one mountain in Borneo.