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Neottia—continued. 
plants, with sheathing scales, natives of Europe and the 
Northern and mountainous regions of Asia. They are 
of little horticultural value. The undermentioned species 
is found generally in dark woods in many parts of Eng- 
land, Ireland, and Southern and Central Scotland. 
N. Nidus-avis (bird’s-nest). fl., sepals broadly ovate, almost 
acute; petals more rounded; lip twice as long, deeply bilobed at 
the extremity ; spike dense, Sin. to Ain. long. Spring and early 
summer. Stem lft. or more high, and, as well as the sheathing 
scales which replace the leaves, light brown. Roots a mass of 
succulent, stout, interlaced fibres. (Sy. En. B. 1478.) 
NEOTTIDIUM. A synonym of Neottia (which see). 
NEOTTOPTERIS. Included under Asplenium 
(which see). i 
NEPENTHACEÆ. A monotypic order of curious 
shrubs or sub-shrubs, inhabiting tropical Asia, Mada- 
gascar, the Seychelles, tropical Australia, New Caledonia, 
and especially the Malayan Archipelago. Flowers 
greenish (when dry, dark brown or purple), small, 
dicecious. Seeds at first floating, and imbibing the water ; 
afterwards sinking to the bottom, where they germinate. 
Leaves alternate; petiole winged at the base, the midrib 
prolonged at the top, and curved or spirally twisted, 
and terminating in a second foliaceous expansion, which 
is hollowed like an urn (the pitcher), to the opening of 
which is fitted a sort of lid, attached as by a hinge, and 
capable of being lowered or raised, so that the pitcher 
is sometimes closed, sometimes open. It is often found 
to contain a watery liquid before the raising of the lid” 
(Le Maoit and Decaisne). Nepenthes—the only genus 
comprises upwards of thirty species. ) 
NEPENTHES (an old Greek name of a, plant used 
by Homer; the word means grief-assuaging, and is 
used in reference to supposed medicinal qualities). 
Pitcher-plant. Syn. Phyllamphora. The only genus 
of ORD. Nepenthacew (which see for characters). The 
species of this genus are not of difficult culture, pro- 
vided they are kept in a moist atmosphere, where a tem- 
perature of from 70deg. to 80deg. is maintained during 
summer, and 65deg. in winter. They succeed best in a 
compost of two parts brown peat fibre and one of sphag- 
num. Nepenthes are most suitable for basket culture, 
and require an abundant supply of water in summer. 
Propagation may be effected by cuttings of well-ripened 
one-year-old shoots, plunged into a strong bottom heat; 
or by seeds, when procurable. The latter should be 
thinly sown in a seed-pan, filled to within lin. of its rim 
with a compost similar to that already described, a little 
water being carefully sprinkled over the surface pre- 
vious to sowing. The pan should then be placed in a 
moist, close frame, having a bottom heat of 80deg. to 
85deg. Germination will ensue in about one month from 
the time of sowing. When several leaves appear, the 
seedlings should be transplanted into small pots. . 
margina margined), l. narrow, Yin. to 12in. 
3 Rant pag below, M ish above, having a dis- 
inct ing towards the mouth. Singapore, 1848. A very 
„ cies, admirably suited for basket culture. 
(G. C. 1849. 580; T. L. S. xxii. 73.) = a 
fs ttle-like). I. broad, oblong, with somewha 
per pitchers ; eral lid very small; colour a meee Bent 
green. Borneo, &., 1789. A robust-growing species. (B. M. 
e ty having light green pitchers 
N. cta tted). A variety having d 
> PSE. with reddish-brown. NECS TAN 
N. a, vittata or (larger-striped). A form having relativ 
N. a. wittata majorchers, with two fringed wings and a small 
lid, the pitcher itself elegantly mottled with reddish blotches on 
a green ground. (I. H. 272. : rien 
N. (narrow-leaved). l. sub-coriaceot * 4 ae: 
midrib prolonged into a long tendril. Pitchers green, 8 
with red, IZin. i isten ge ro 
grad pass into an elongated, cylindrical neck ; wings 
—. Y irin rpg mouth obliquely ovate, reer agar mee lid 
- glabrous, cordate, sub-orbicular, with a short, entire, pinnatisect 
spur at the base. Sarawak, 1881. 
N. a : 
Nepenthes—continued. 
atro-sanguinea (dark-blood-red).* Z. stalked. Pitchers red- 
dish-crimson, slight] spotted with yellow, about 6in. by 2hin., 
pointed at the base, distended at the lower half, cylindric abovée: 
wings broad, fringed; mouth ovate, acute, slightly prolon, 
towards the lid, and surrounded by a flattish rim, marked with 
close ridges, some red, others blackish; lid about the size of the 
mouth, oblong, emarginate, with a simple spur at the base. 1882. 
A handsome garden hybrid, probably a cross between V. rubra 
and N. Sedeni. (G. C. n. s., xvii. 827.) 
carata (two-spurred).“ l. of a peculiar dark gicen, 
N. bical 
obovate-lanceolate. Pitchers bag-shaped; covered when young 
with a fluffy rust-coloured down, and provided with two sharply- 
toothed wings when fully developed; neck thrown into —— 
with intervening furrows, and prolonged at the back into an 
erect or slightly incurved process, terminating in the two 
recurved spurs, like the fangs of a snake with its head uplifted to 
strike. Borneo, 1878. (G. C. n. s., xiii, 201.) 
FIG. 671. STEM OF NEPENTHES DISTILLATORIA. 
N. chelsonii (Chelsea). A garden hybrid between N. Dominiana 
and N. Hookeriana, and having a habit intermediate between 
the two. It is well worth growing. 8 
. cincta (girded), . approximate, n. by šin., 8. 
W tapering to a broad dilated — He 
een; midrib somewhat angular on the lower surface. Pi : 
green, flushed with red, and with numerous irregular purple 
lotches, tubular, slightly ventricose, rounded at base, Tin. to Bin. 
by 2zin.; rim very oblique, jin. broad, undulate, lobed, finely 
ribbed ‘with a narrow whitish band around the top of the tube ; 
lower half thicker in texture than the upper ; lid orbicular and 
two-ribbed, arching over the mouth of the pitcher. Stems cylin- 
drical, stout. Borneo, 1884. (G. C. n. s., xxi. 5 : 
coccinea (scarlet).* J. acute at apex. Pitchers crimson, 
N. 1 htly — aer citi yellow, 6in. by 3in., flask-shaped, pointed 
pry base, distended below the middle, broadly cylindric above ; 
wings deeply fringed ; mouth ovate, acute, slightly protracted at 
the back; rim broad, finely ribbed, the ribs parti-coloured red 
and black; throat greenish, speckled with red; lid ovate-oblong, 
