Jenkins, Assistant Director, Sabah National Parks was prompted to publish a guide book on the species found within the park and I was delighted to be asked to write the text.The book's coverage was mostly restricted to the southern slopes of Mount Kinabalu, as the rest of the mountain remained largely unexplored at the time.

[1] Kurata recognised 16 species from Mount Kinabalu: N. alata (now known to be endemic to the Philippines),[5] N. ampullaria, N. bicalcarata, N. burbidgeae, N. edwardsiana, N. fusca, N. gracilis, N. lowii, N. mirabilis, N. rafflesiana, N. rajah, N. reinwardtiana, N. stenophylla, N. tentaculata, N. villosa, and an undescribed species ("Nepenthes sp.

[1] Several of these species had not been reported from Kinabalu National Park at the time, but were expected to be found there due to their presence in surrounding areas.

[1] Nepenthes of Mount Kinabalu also made one of the earliest mentions of N. hamata (under the name N. dentata),[7] a species that would be formally described 8 years after the book's publication.

[8] Nepenthes of Mount Kinabalu was reviewed by Donna Scott in a 1984 issue of the Victorian Carnivorous Plant Society Journal.