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A TEXTBOOK OF THEORETICAL BOTANY 



gascar, eastwards to the northern territory of AustraHa, and north- 

 wards into north-eastern Bengal and southern China. It would appear 

 therefore that Nepenthes (Fig. 1586) must be regarded as the Old World 

 representative corresponding to the Sarraceniaceae of the New World. 

 They are slender plants which generally chmb with the aid of their alter- 



FiG 1586. — Nepenthes khasiana. Plant with 

 pitchers. 



nate leaves. The flowers (Fig. 1587) are small and dioecious, produced 

 in racemes. The perianth consists of two dimerous whorls. In the male 

 flowers there is a varying number of stamens; in the female there is a 

 superior, four-chambered ovary with axile placentation. The family is 

 placed in the Aristolochiales by some authors and separated thereby from 

 the rest of the Sarraceniales. This is based chiefly upon the axile placenta- 



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Fig. 1587. — Nepenthes. Male (A) and female (B) flowers. 



