I have seldom witnessed any of those beautiful phenomena of which I have read--as double sunsets--but that evening we witnessed one. A dark cloud hung over the horizon, and beneath it we saw a sun, clear and well-defined, set in vapour: we hurried on our preparations for the night, for fear darkness should overtake us, when the true sun, suddenly bursting from behind the concealing cloud, restored the day. I never saw men so astonished as were our followers, and we were as completely deceived as they were, though we did not give the same explanation, that we had fallen among jinn and other supernatural creatures. We sent our men on next morning to wait for us at the cave, while we stayed behind to collect specimens of the _Nepenthes Lowii_ and the _Nepenthes Villosa_. The former is, in my opinion, the most lovely of them all, and its shape is most elegant. I will give Dr. Hooker’s botanical description of both. “_Ascidia magna, curva, basi inflata, medio constricta, dein ampliata, infundibuliformia; ore maximo, latissimo, annulo O._ “Nepenthes Lowii, H. f.--Caule robusto tereti, foliis crasse coriaceis, longe crasse petiolatis lineari-oblongis, ascidiis magnis curvis basi ventricosis medio valde constrictis, ore maximo ampliato, annulo O, operculo oblongo intus dense longe setoso. (_Tab._ LXXI.) “_Hab._--Kina Balu; alt. 6,000–8,000 feet (_Low_). “A noble species, with very remarkable pitchers, quite unlike those of any other species. They are curved, 4–10 inches long, swollen at the base, then much constricted, and suddenly dilating to a broad, wide, open mouth with glossy shelving inner walls, and a minute row of low tubercles round the circumference; they are of a bright pea green, mottled inside with purple. The leaves closely resemble those of _Edwardsiana_ and _Boschiana_ in size, form, and texture, but are more linear-oblong. [Illustration: Day & Son, Lith. to the Queen. NEPENTHES LOWII. _H. f._ Published by Smith, Elder & C^o. 65, Cornhill, London.] [Illustration: Day & Son, Lith. to the Queen. NEPENTHES VILLOSA. _H. f._ Published by Smith, Elder & C^o. 65, Cornhill, London.] “I have specimens of what are sent as the male flower and fruit, but not being attached, I have not ventured to describe them as such. The male raceme is eight inches long, dense flowered. Peduncles simple. Perianth with depressed glands on the inner surface, externally rufous and pubescent. Column long and slender. _Female_ inflorescence: a very dense oblong panicle; rachis, peduncles, perianth, and fruit covered with rusty tomentum. Capsules, two-thirds of an inch long, one-sixth of an inch broad.”[20] The outside colour of the pitchers is a bright pea-green, the inside dark mahogany; the lid is green, while the glandular are mahogany-coloured. A very elegant claret jug might be made of this shape. “_Ascidia magna, ore lamellis latis disciformibus annularibus remotis instructo._