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anther-head globose with about 20 anthers. The fruiting panicle is 20 em. long and 
about 11 em. through. The peduncle is stout, over 20 cm. long and 4 mm. thick. The 
capsule is 3:5 cm. long, the segments lanceolate, acuminate at both ends, 4 mm. across, 
inside smooth and strongly keeled, outside at first covered with red pubescence; when 
that is fallen they are seen to be pitted. The perianth remains deflexed. 
NEPENTHES OBLANCEOLATA, Ridl., sp. nov. 
Caulis gracilis, teres, hirsutus, 2 mm. crassus. Folia petiolata, oblanceolata vel 
elliptica, acuta, 7-8 cm. longa, 3 cm. lata ubi latissima, coriacea, glabra, costa in 
dorso nigro-punctato hirta excepta, nervis in utraque facie obscuris, petiolo alato 
4 mm. lato haud decurrente aut amplexicauli, cirrho gracili hirto 10 cm. longo. 
Ascidia cylindrica, 7-15 em. longa, 1°5 em. lata, dimidio inferiore dilatata, carinis 
nullis, extus parce pubescentia, intus in dimidio superiore levia, glabra, eglan- 
dulosa, retieulationibus quadratis, in dimidio inferiore polita, dense glandulis. 
transversim ellipticis tecta; peristomium angustum, 1:5-3 mm. latum; calcar 
cornutum, acuminatum, 2 mm. longum, hirtum; operculum ovatum, cordatum, 
obtusum, rotundatum, 2 cm. longum, 2-3 cm. latum, carina ad basin humili, ad 
apicem processu parvo conico complanato instruetum, glandulis parvis dissitis 
pluribus cum paucis magnis marginibus elevatis prope apicem sitis, dorso minute 
puberulum. Pedunculus erectus, gracilis, hirtus, 8 cm. longus. Racemus sub- 
compositus, laxus, 12 cm. longus, inferne parce ramosus, ramis hirtis bifloris 2 mm. 
longis, pedicellis 5 mm. vel (superioribus) 2 mm. longis. Perianthii lobi 2 
exteriores ovati, oblongi, obtusi, extus hirti, intus glandulosi, 2 mm. longi, 1 mm. 
lati; 2 interiores angustiores. Andreciwm 5 mm. longum, hirtum; anthere 14, 
globosze. 
Camp VI a, 3100 ft., and Camp VI b, 3900 ft. 
This is allied to N. neo-guineensis, but has a distinct keel and a short process in the 
upper part of the operculum resembling that of N. maxima, but much smaller. The 
glands of the operculum, too, are much smaller than those of NW. neo-guineensis, and 
there are no ciliate ridges on the pitchers as in that species; the form of the leaves, too, 
is peculiar, the blade dilating rather abruptly from a winged petiole into an oblanceolate 
form, widest towards the top, then suddenly narrowing into the tendril. The pitchers 
appear to have been green, stained above and on the lid with purple. 
NEPENTHES MAXIMA, Reinwardt apud Nees, in Ann. Sc. Nat. Sér. 1. iii. (1824) 369, t. 20. 
fig. 2. i 
Camps VIa, 3100 ft.; VIoc, 5500 ft. ; and IX to XI, 5500 to 8300 ft. 
Distrib. Endemic in New Guinea. : 
 NePENTHES Krossi, Ridl., sp. nov. 
Folium oblongum vel lanceolatum, ad petiolum abrupte angustatum, 25 cm. ad 31 cm. 
longum, 9 em. latum, superne dense rufo-hirtum (presertim in costa), subtus 
flavescens, costa immersa hirta excepta, glabra, costa in facie superiore valida 
