. Tas. 5109. 
NEPENTHES ampwu.Luaria. 
Ampullaceous Nepenthes, or Pitcher-plant. 
Nat. Ord. NepentHacn®.—Diccra MonapDELPHIA. 
Gen. Char. (Vide supra, Tas. 4285.) 
NEPENTHES ampullaria ; caule basi repente superne ascendente scandente, asci- 
diis radicalibus late ovato-ventricosis reliquis ovali-cylindraceis antice alis 
duabus membranaceis longe pectinato-ciliatis, ore subcontracto, margime 
angusto inflexo striato, operculo parvo lanceolato demum reflexo, racemis 
pubescentibus. 
NEPENTHES ampullaria. W. Jack, in Hook. Comp. to Bot. Mag. v. 1. p. 271. 
Lambert, Pinus, v. 2. App. t. 8. Korthals, Bot. p. 39. é. 18. 
Dp go 
As compared with the noble pitchers of Nepenthgs Raflesvana, 
Jack (see our Tab. 4285 of this work), and our still more striking 
Nepenthes villosa,* given at Tab. 5080, NV. ampullaria claims few 
attractions ; and it has unfortunately happened that our artist took 
his drawing too late in the season for the more perfect pitchers, 
which are collected in numbers about the base of the plant at 
an earlier season, on small and abortive leaves, and then disap- 
pear. These are sometimes almost globose, singularly inflated 
or ampullaceous, whilst the pitchers springing from the end of a 
fully-formed cauline leaf, where they are always less perfect, are 
narrower and oval-oblong; and no others were present on the 
plant at the flowering-season (August). The species 1s a native 
of the forests of Singapore ; also at Rhio, on the island of Bin- 
tang, Malay Archipelago. We owe our plants to the liberality 
of Lady Dorothy Nevill; Dangstein, and of Messrs. Veitch and 
Sons, of the Nurseries, Exeter and Chelsea. : 
Descr. The lower part of the plant is more or less creeping, 
me magnificent pitchers from two 
he collected on Kina 
and of a form as re- 
* And even these are very inferior to so 
new species lately sent to us by Hugh Low, Esq., which 
Balloo, in Borneo; one of them more than 14 inches long, 
markable as the size. 
APRIL Ist, 1859. 
