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Perhaps they are even Monocotyles and Endo- 

 genous, as the t(!rnary numbers of organs ap- 

 pear to indicate — The G. Salucia and Strnmfia 

 Ibrni another akin family lSAL\tii)i:s having pe- 

 tals besides a divided cahx and epigyne sta- 

 mens — Necker puts this G. Meborea near to 

 Passi flora, and perhaps the stamens are mona- 

 delphous as in Passiflora and Sisyrinchijm once 

 deemed gynandrous by Linneus. 



1118. Nepenthes L. auct. Bandura Burm. 

 Ad. a wonderful G. of doubtful affinities, which 

 Lindley reduces to Aristolochia ! an egregious 

 absurdity since it is dioical. with a free pistil . . . 

 It is the type of my family Nepenthides, near 

 to SA.RAZINIDES dift'cring by dioical monadel- 

 phous stamens, akin also to the order Epidiesia 

 or Euphorbides, and the families of it wi/h uni- 

 ted stamens like Ricinides Slc chief ditierence 

 a single large stigma. The G. Aspidistra and 

 Macrogyne are so near to Nepenthes that all 

 must be monocotylc (nay perhaps ail the Asari- 

 des?) if so they form a peculiar series an! link 

 with Sarazinia on one side and Paris on the 

 other by the quaternary niunber of parts. Many 

 sp. have been blended in N. distilatoria, Jussieu 

 noticed 3, Wildenow had 3 others, there are 7 

 at least 1 N. distilatoria L. oft. fig. bot. mag. 

 26*29. 2798, Lod. 1017 &c caule ramoso, fol. 

 sparsis avenis, ft. racemosis geminatis. India — 

 2 N. maf/agascarif'nsis, W. P. — 3 N.pliyUim- 

 phora W. P. Genus in Lour simplex fol. app. 

 fl. spicatis — 4 N. zcylanica Raf. Bandura 

 Burm. zeyl, t. 17 — 5 A^. indica Lam. fol. reticu- 

 latis — 6 N. cantliarifera Jus. Rumph. Aubl. 5. 

 t. 59 — 7 TV, scifplius Jus. Malaca — Perhaps 

 several subg. or Gen. are blended here. 



