Tas. 8017. 
NEPE NTHES Ragan. 
Borneo. 
NEPENTHACE. 
Nepentues, Linn. ; Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. Plant. vol. iii. p. 115. 
Nepenthes Rajah, Hook. f. in Trans. Linn. Soc. vol. xxii. (1859), p. 421, 
t. 72; DC. Prodr. vol. xvii. p. 95; Burbidge, The Gardens of the Sun, 
pp- 100 et 108; A. J. Veitch in Journ. Roy. Hort. Soe. vol. xxi. (1897) 
p- 282; Gard. Chron. 1881, vol. ii. p. 493, f. 91; species ascidiorum magni- 
tudine ac colore insignis. 
Frutew terrestris, paucipedalis, novellis plus minusve ferrugineo-hirsutis, 
caule subsimplice dense foliato. Folia crassissima, coriacea, maxima in 
plantis agrestibus cum ascidio usque ad operculi apicem 5-6-pedalia: 
nempe petiolus 4 poll., lamina 20 poll., cirrhus 20 poll., ascidium 12 poll., 
operculum 10 poll. longum; maxima in plantis cultis saltem dimidio 
minora, cito glabrescentia, lanceolato-spathulata, deorsum attenuata, 
apice rotundata utrinque glandalis (rudimentariis ?) minutis crebre con- 
spersa. Cirrhus circiter 1 poll. infra laminz apicem peltatim exiens, 
4-2 poll. diametro, per totam longitudinem, sed praecipue apicem versus, 
glandulis perithecioideis melliferis 13-3 lin. longis praditus. Ascidia 
oblique lateque ampullacea, primum ferrugineo-pubescentia, extus 
plerumque brunneo-purpurea, oblique costata, alis duabus anticis viridibus 
ciliatis ornata, costa postica infra operculi insertionem in calear recurvam 
producta; extus glandulis melliferis paucis peritheciodeis oblongis in- 
structa ; intus super totam superficiem glandulosa; glandulz in parte 
superiore minores, semiobtecte, segregate, in parte inferiore majores, 
omnino detects, infimse contiguse, 5—7-gonx, marginate. Operculum 
crassum, amplum, ellipticum, basi cordatum, apice emarginatum, erecto- 
incurvum, extus rubro-viride, intus viride, rubro-striatum, costa basin 
versus geniculatim producta. Os obliquum, in collum brevem pectinatum 
intus sanguineum productum. Peristomiwm atro-sanguineum, latum, 
eversum, lobatum, crebre transverse plicatum, plicis angustis rigidis 
nitidis, margine interiore pectinatum, dentibus acutis, inter dentes uni- 
porosum, uniglandulosum, glandulis omnino immersis. lores ferrugineo- 
pubescentes, 4-5 lin. diametro, anguste racemoso-paniculati; panicala 
erectee, ferrngineo-pubescentes, cum rhachi valida nuda usque ad 2} 
ped. longs, masculinze quam feminex longiores; pedunculi graciles, 
szepissime biflori, inferiores 4-1 poll. longi, sursum gradatim breviores; 
pedicelli graciles, longiores vix semipollicares. Perianthium utriusque 
sexus 4-partitum ; segmenta crassa, coriacea, oblongo-spathulata, rotun- 
data, recurva, infra ferrugineo-pubescentia, supra glandulosa, persis- 
tentia. Antherx uniseriate. Capsule ferrugineo-tomentosm, circiter 9 
lin. longee, 
Nepenthes Rajah was discovered by Sir Hugh Low, whose 
death we have to lament while these pages were in the 
printers’ hands, together with N. edwardsiana, N. Lowit 
and N. villosa, in 1851, and was described by Sir Joseph 
Hooker in 1859. Mr. F. W. Burbidge introduced it for 
Messrs. James Veitch & Sons in 1881. ‘This firm had it in 
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