Tab. 4285. 
NEPENTHES Rafflesiana. 
Sir Stamford Rajles Pitcher-Riant. 
Nat. Ord. Nepenthace^.—Dicecia Monadelphia. 
Gen. Char. Flores dioici. Masc. Perigonitim calycinum, profuude quadri- 
fidum. Stamina in columnam centralem connata; antherae 16, in capitulum 
subsplisericum congestse, biloculares, longitudinaliter dehiscentes. Fcem. Peri- 
gonium maris. Ovarixm liberum, subtetragonum, quadriloculare. Omla plurima, 
septorum parietibus adscendentim affixa, anatropa. Stigma sessile, discoideiim, 
obsolete quadrilobum. Capsula quadrilocularis, locubcido-quadrivalvis, vahds 
medio septiferis. Semina plurima, setaceo-fusiformia, adscendentia, imbricata: 
testa membranacea, utrinque relaxata; niicleo centrali inverso, subgloboso. Em¬ 
bryo in axi albuminis camosi cylindricus, ortbotropus; radicula bre\i, infera.— 
Suffrutices in Asia tropica et in Madagascaria indigeni; petiolis alternisy basi 
brevissime vaginantibus, foliaceo-dilatatis, apice cirrhosis, cirrho ascidiophoro, lamina 
articulata ascidium claudmte ; jlorihus racetnosis vel paniculatis. Endl, 
Nepenthes Rafflesiana', foliis petiolatis inferiorum ascidiis ventricoso-campanu- 
latis antice late membranaceo-alatis alis longe cUiatis superiorum infundi- 
buliformibus nudis, omnium ore pidcherrime pectinato-striato oblique postice 
assurgente. 
Nepenthes Kafflesiana. Jack, in Hooker, Comp, to Bot. Mag. p. 270. Korthals, 
Bot. Ind. Batav. p. 35. 
To Dr. Jack is due the discover}^ of this remarkable species of 
Nepenthes, in the island of Singapore. It was our privilege, in 
the first volume of the ‘ Companion to the Botanical Magazine 
to publish the letters of that distinguished botanist so early lost 
to science. He relates the circumstance of finding this pitcher- 
plant in one of his many valued communications, addressed to his 
family at Aberdeen. Writing from Singapore, June 20th, 1819, 
Dr. Jack says, “My last letter from hence was sent by way of 
Penang; this goes home via Bengal. It is impossible to con¬ 
ceive anything more beautiful than the approach to Singapore, 
through the Archipelago of islands that lie at the extremity of 
the Straits of Malacca. Seas of glass wind among innumerable 
islets, clothed in all the luxuriance of tropical vegetation, and 
basking in the full brilliancy of a tropical sky. The island of 
St. John’s, which forms the western point of the bay of Singapore, 
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