Nepenthes.] CXXI. NEPENTHACEX. (J. D. Hooker.) 71 
by 3-1 in., lower long acuminate, upper shorter often obtuse, nerves 3-4 on each side. 
Pitchers 4-8 in., violet ; mouth 2-2} in.wide; peristome very obscurely if at all striate. 
Racemes 5-7 in. long; female shorter, tomentose ; pedicels }—1 in.; flowers small, 
i-$in. diam. Capsule i-i in.—Differs from WN. gracilis in the glandular lid.and 
smooth peristome. 
9. N. gracilis, Korthals in Verh. Nat. Gesch. xxii. t. 1 and 4, f. 1-38; 
stem glabrous 3-4-angled, leaves sessile linear-lanceolate decurrent, pitchers 
cylindric inflated below, contracted in the middle, mouth orbicular, peri- 
stome very narrow ribbed, lid orbicular with few glands within, racemes 
narrow downy, pedicels short. Hook. f. in DC. Prodr. xvii. 104; Blume 
Mus. Bot. ii. 10; Miquel Fl. Ind. Bat. i. pt. 1, 1071; Spach Suites a 
Buffon Veg. Phan. t. 144. N. Korthalsiana, Miquel l.c. 1071, and Fl. Ins. 
Archip, 7,t.1. N. levis, Korth., in part. 
Mataoca and SINGAPORE; Jack, Wallich.—DrisTRIB. Borneo, 
_Stem slender, angles obtuse. Leaves 4-7 by 1 in., glabrous, coriaceous; nerves 3-5 
pairs, Conspicuous. Pitchers 24-4 in. long, glabrous, membranous, lower winged ; 
mouth rather dilated; peristome very narrow or almost filiform ; glands of lid very 
few and large. Racemes tomentose or glabrate, pedicels 1-3 in. Flowers j-] in. 
broad. Capsule slender, 3-11 in. long, glabrous. 
Orprr CXXII. CYTINACEZ. 
Leafless brown reddish or yellowish parasites, or with leaves reduced to 
scales. Flowers solitary or in a spadix-like spike, or clustered on the root 
or branch of the host. Perianth superior, 3-10-cleft, segments or lobes 
imbricate or valvate. Stamens 8 or more, forming a fleshy ring round the 
style, or inserted on the perianth, 2-celled, bursting by pores or slits. Ovary 
l-celled, or with many spurious cells formed of branching fleshy pendulous 
or parietal placentas; stigmas various. Ovules excessively numerous, 
ort otropous or anatropous. Fruit fleshy, L-celled. Seeds innumerabie, 
Very minute, sometimes sunk in the placentas, nucleus homogeneous, 
or albumen cellular with a most minute embryo.—Genera 7, species 22, 
mostly tropical. 
1. SAPRIA, Griff. 
Plant dicecious, consisting of a solitary large flower sessile in a cup 
formed of the bark of a Vine stone surrounded at the base by large broad 
Opposite imbricating bracts. Mare rr. Perianth-tube hemisphene En 
solid below, cupular above and marked with 20 radiating ridges; lime 
partite, segments rounded or oblong imbricate in two rows, spreading Ain 
the base of the tube rises a stout columnar style crowned wit à broad en r 
shaped very hairy disk. Anthers about 20, sessile in a ring under poe 1 nth 
Subglobose, 2-3-celled, opening outwards by one pore. FEM. FL. "alls of 
0 the male. Ovary traversed by longitudinal sinuous cells the wa nn 
Which are covered with anatropous ovules; stigma, a pap ulpes with the 
ree the disk. Fruit the swollen globose ovary crowned wt 
nth. 
S. himalaya Griff in Proc. Linn. Soc. i. 216, and in Trans. Linn. 
Soe. xix. 314, & 34, 95, Hock f. in DC Prodr. xvii. 112. S. Grifüthii 
Brown in Trans. Linn. Soc. xix. 244. 
a 
Origen EN Assam; in the Mishmi Hills, on the roots of a vine, alt. 3-5000 ft., 
