free from each other; occasionally two are connate, so this 
character is not absolute. 
Whatever view we take of the limits of the species, that 
figured appears to be the one described by Loureiro, and 
must therefore bear the name Phyllamphora. It is the 
only one known from South China and the country imme- 
diately to the south; and it is the species that was first 
cultivated at Kew, having been introduced, according to 
Aiton, by Sir Joseph Banks in 1789. There is an undated 
specimen at Kew from the Herbarium of Bishop Good- 
enough, labelled: ‘* Nepenthes distillatoria, Kew ;” and it 
is recorded by Aiton under this name, and as a native of 
China and Ceylon. There was further confusion in the 
names of the species cultivated during the first half of the 
last century, and it may be worth while repeating the 
corrected synonymy here :—N, distillatoria, Ait.=N. Phyl- 
lamphora, Willd.; N. distillatoria, Loddiges Bot. Cab. 
vol. xi. 1825, t. 1017 = N. khasyana, Hook. f.; N. Phyl- 
lamphora, Bot. Mag. t. 2629 = N. khasyana ; N. distillatoria, 
Bot. Mag. t. 2798 = N. khasyana. Loddiges’ figure was 
the first of a cultivated Nepenthes in this country, and 
the accompanying plate is the first of the true N. Phyllam- 
phora. 
As limited by Sir Joseph Hooker, it has the widest 
range of any species of the genus, ranging from Mount 
Ophir, in Malacca, South China, the Philippines, and 
Pelew Island, through the Malay Archipelago to New 
Guinea, the Louisiade Archipelago and North-eastern 
Australia It differs apparently from most other species 
in not having two kinds of pitchers. In all the numerous 
Specimens examined, both wild and cultivated, the pitchers 
have a wide conductive or glandless zone; there are no 
pitchers in which the whole interior is covered with 
secreting glands. There are, however, considerable differ- 
ences in the size and colouring; the female plant having 
them more highly coloured than the male. N. Phyllam- 
phora is also remarkable for the smallness and number of 
its digestive glands. My colleague, Mr. Cotton, and I, 
have carefully counted the number ina square line, several 
times over, and we make it from ninety to a hundred, 
which gives the enormous total of 13,000 to 14,400 glands 
to the square inch ! 
