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been fully opened. The site of the two large nerves is 
occupied by prominent ciliated wings, and the base is bent 
exactly in the opposite direction from that which it takes 
in the outline figure, and in ‘the specimen which I have 
described. We have two plants which scarcely yet exceed 
the size of seedlings, in which these wings, strongly cili- 
ated, are present ; and, as in the detached pitcher, t. 2629, 
their pitchers are so bent at the base that the cirrhus ° 
between the wings. It is probable, therefore, that these 
appearances are peculiar to plants which have not yet 
advanced to maturity. The youngest pitcher on the large 
plant has the same relative situation to its cirrhus that the 
oldest has, and the same absence of wings. In Rumpntus’s 
figure, the position of the pitchers is always, as in the de- 
tached pitcher of the Magazine, t. 2629. The imperfect 
figure given by Ammannus of his Banpura Singalensium in 
Miscell. Curios. Ann. Prim. Decur. 2. t. 13. seems to ap- 
proach nearly to the present species. ~ 
| The N. distillatoria of Linnazus is quoted by Lamarck 
under N. indica, and, notwithstanding some difference in 
the description, I believe this (N. indica) to be our species, 
though reference is made from it to Pruxenerius, AMMAN- 
nus, Burmann, and Rumputus, to the last indeed with 
doubt. Where a change of name has become necessary, it 
is an evil which must be endured, but as no necessity 
appears to exist here, I retain that by which our plant was 
universally known, at least in this country. | 
Our specimen has been constantly kept in the stove, and 
now produces a very striking effect, by supporting itself 
on the adjoining plants, and hanging from them its pitchers. 
It gives off suckers, but not freely, a circumstance remark- 
ed in the female plant by Mr. Loppices. Mr. Macnas has 
succeeded in propagating two plants in this way. Granam. 
For the above synonyms and description I am entirely 
indebted to Dr. Granam, who obligingly sent me a noble 
specimen of the male plant of this most rare and singular 
vegetable production, from the Edinburgh Botanic Garden 
in the month of August. This species of NepenrHes ap- 
pears to have been introduced into this country, according 
to Hortus Kewensis, in the year 1789: but it was vie? 
shortly after wholly lost to the country, till the neo 
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