68 CXX. PODOSTEMONACEGX. (J. D. Hooker.) [Podostemon. 
14. P. selaginoides, Benth. in Gen. Pl. iii. 113; stems densely 
tufted simple erect the flowerless naked below, flowering densely clothed from 
the base with 4-ranked imbricating scales, flowers terminal subsessile, ' 
capsule ellipsoid smooth. Mniopsis selaginoides, Beddome in Trans. Linn. Soc. 
xxv. 223, t. 28. Dicræa selaginoides, Wedd. in DC. Prodr. xvii. 68. 
SovTH DEcCAN ; in streams of the Anamallay Hills, Wight, Beddome. 
Rootstock small, depressed, stems 2-3 in.rather fleshy. Leaves of the flowerless 
stems 3-4 in. long, semiterete below then strap-shaped, those of the flowering stems 
subclavate, the upper 4 in., lower shorter, keeled at the back, channelled in front; 
filiform tips jointed at the base and deciduous. Spathe amongst the upper leaves, 
saccate, mouth 2-lobed. Ovary ellipsoid, obtuse, stigmas unequal. Filament equal- 
ling the ovary, anthers oblong; staminodes narrowly linear. Capsule $ in. long. 
DOUBTFUL SPECIES. 
Dicrma APICATA, Zul. Monogr. Podost. 204; Wedd. in DC. Prodr. xvii. 71; 
stems 2-3 in. compressed simple naked crowned with a brush of filiform branchlets, 
flowers as in P. dichotomus.—N ilghiri Mts., Wight; in streams at Pycarrah, Gardner. 
? Ceylon, Thwaites (C. P. 2989). Probably (according to Tulasne) an abnormal form 
of P. dichotomus var. rigida. 
OrvErR CXXI. NEPENTHACEIE. 
Climbing. or prostrate evergreen undershrubs. Leaves alternate, exstipu- 
late ; midrib stout, produced into a peduncle which bears a pitcher of various 
forms, nerves parallel; pitcher.with 2 longitudinal ribs or wings in front, at 
first closed by a lid which opens and becomes erect or reflected, inner surface 
covered below the middle with. glands that secrete water; mouth with 8 
revolute and closely ribbed margin (peristome). Inflorescence terminal or 
lateral; flowers racemose rarely panicled, dicecious, small, green or brownish. 
Perianth 4-, rarely 3-partite ; segments oblong, glandular within. MALE FL. 
Stamens 4-16, united in a column crowned by the usually connate anthers 
with extrorse dehiscence. FEMALE FL. Ovary supérior, 4- rarely 3-gonous, 
4—3-celled ; stigma sessile, discoid, 4—3-lobed. Ovules numerous, in many 
series, attached to the septa, anatropous, ascending. Capsule coriaceous, 
loculicidally 4—3-valved. Seeds very numerous, minute, imbricate, testa 
membranous, produced into a thread at each end; albumen fleshy ; embryo 
axile, straight, cotyledons linear, radicle short inferior.—Genus 1, species 
about 30, Tropical Asia, Malay Islands, N. Australia, New Caledonia, 
Madagascar and the Seychelles. 
NEPENTHES, Linn. 
. Character of the Order. 
* Flowers panicled. 
1. N. distillatoria, Linn.; Hook. f. in DC. Prodr. xvii. 93; gla- 
brous, leaves elliptic-lanceolate, petiole broadly winged k-amplexicaul, 
pitcher cylindric hardly inflated below, mouth subcordate, ribs not winged, 
peristome narrow not dilated behind, lid smooth within. Burm. Fl. Ind. 
190; Gertn. Fruct. ii. 18, t. 33; Thwaites Enum. 290. N. indica, Poir. 
Encycl. lv. 458 ;" Brongn. in Ann. Sc. Wat. i. 43, t. 5, f. 1. Bandura zey- 
lanica, Burm. Thes. Zeyl. 49, t. 17. MESS. 
CEYLON ; south ofthe island, common.. 
A tall climber. Leaves 5-12 by 1-2} in., coriaceous, acute or acuminate.. Pitchers . 
