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This has the largest pitchers of any described species of the genus. The specimens 
we have seen are very much shrivelled ; but Seemann states (/. c.) that they are about the 
size of those of Cephalotus, though much more fleshy and substantial, and of a green 
colour blotched with a dull reddish brown. 
Since our Plate was printed, Wittmack (FI. Bras. fasc. lxxxi. p. 231) has referred 
this species to I. picta, Willd., but, as we think, on insufficient grounds. Willdenow’s 
species was founded upon a barren or climbing branch ; and Wittmack has seen flowerless 
specimens, collected by Martius in Brazil, having both climbing branches with leaves 
resembling those of Willdenow’s plant, and flowering branches with leaves resembling 
those of Seemann’s species, the leaves of the climbing branches of which are unknown. 
These three he identifies as one and the same species. 
8. Marcgravia parviflora, Rich., ex Wittmack in Fl. Bras. fasc. Ixxxi. p. 227. 
Marcgravia pedunculosa, Tr. et Pl. 
Panama (fide Wittmack) to—PrErv and Brazi.. 
4. Marcgravia polyantha, Delp. in Atti Soc. Ital. Sci. di Milano, xii. pp. 182 
et 210. 
Var. B. occidentalis, Wittm. in Fl. Bras. fase. Ixxxi. p. 224. 
Sourn Mexico, Vera Cruz (Galeotti, 292).—And in Peru (fide Wittmach). 
2. NORANTEA. 
Norantea, Aubl. Pl. Guian. p. 554, t. 220; Benth. et Hook. Gen. Plant. i. p. 181. 
Epiphytal or climbing shrubs. About ten or twelve species, distributed from South 
Brazil to Nicaragua. I have seen no specimens collected between Colombia and 
Nicaragua. One species occurs in the West Indies. 
1. Norantea anomala, H. B. K. Nov. Gen. et Sp. vii. p. 218, t. 647. 
Norantea sessiliflora, Planch. et Tr. Prodr. Fl. N. Gran. i. p. 2465. 
Nicaragua, Chontales (Seemann, 7; Tate, 255).—Southward to EcuaDor and Bratt. 
Hb. Kew. 
3. RUYSCHIA. 
Ruyschia, Jacq. Stirp. Amer. p. 75, t. 51. fig. 2 (Souroubea, Aubl.) ; Benth. et Hook. Gen. Plant. i. 
p. 181. 
Climbing or epiphytal shrubs, rarely arborescent. About eight species. Delpino J. c.) 
retains the names above to designate distinct genera—uyschia being characterized by 
having solid transformed bracts which secrete nectar on the outside, whilst in Souroubea 
they are hollow, the secretion being formed inside. The Central-American and Mexican 
species hitherto collected belong to the latter genus or section. Considering it as one 
genus, the species are dispersed over Eastern Tropical South America, northward to 
Mexico and the West Indies. 
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