Plate I •()!>. 

 NEPENTHES EYBRIDi MACTJ LATA. 



Among the many remarkable genera of plants which attracl 

 the observer of nature, there is nol one which perhaps so uni- 

 versally does so as the family of Pitcher-plants, as they are 

 called; from the lovely Cepkalotus, the odd-looking Darling- 

 tonia, through the Sarracenias, and up to the magnificent species 

 of Nepenthes, some of whose pitchers will contain three pints of 

 water ; all are alike interesting and all are well worth) of notice. 



We have already figured in our Magazine, Cepkalotus follicularis, 

 the curious little Australian Pitcher-plant, and Sarracenia Drum.' 



iiidikIH. one of the North American species, and we now figure 

 one of those more immediately connected with the tropical 

 species, — for it is not a species hut a garden hybrid. 



No establishment in the kingdom is so rich in Nepenthes as 

 that of the Messrs. Veitch, of Chelsea, where they are to be 

 seen both as magnificent plants of large size and as the tiuiesl 

 little things in the seedling-pan, for the genus has been one 

 of those which the indefatigable skill and perseverance of 

 Mr. Dominy, their intelligent foreman, has brought under his 

 treatment. That which we now figure i.s a seedling raised by 

 him from A. distillatoricL and an unnamed Bornean species. 

 The habit partakes of the free growth of Xppcnf/ies disfillatoria; 

 the pitchers, which are thickly spotted with reddish-brown, 

 quite equal in size those of that species, and the} are very 

 freely produced. 



Unlike those which we have formerly figured, this variety 

 requires a stove, and. as mighl be supposed from the habitat of 

 this plant, one where considerable moisture can be given as 

 well as heat. When such can be obtained, there is certain!) 



