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a slightly exserted tube, and by the raceme reaching lower down upon 

 the stem, and having 1 or often 3 of the flowers bracteated. M. ver- 

 sicolor, which our plant resembles closely in its corolla, has a raceme 

 decidedly separate from the leaves, shorter pedicels, narrower, sharper 

 leaves, and a longer calyx with less spreading hairs. M. stricta may 

 readily be known from both the other species by its much shorter pe- 

 dicels, the lowest of which are not more than a third of the length of 

 the cnlyx in the fruiting stage, and ascend with much uniformity, so 

 as to give the whole inflorescence that regularity and rigidity of habit 

 from which the plant takes its name. There is a plant from Portugal, 

 under the name of " Myosotis chrysantha, Welwitsch, Herb.," in the 

 Kew collection, which comes very near the Sussex one, but it has 

 shorter pedicels, a shorter calyx, with more copious spreading bristles, 

 and a bright yellow flower, as large as in the ordinary form of M. 

 coUina. 



A NEW PITCHEK-PLANT FROM CENTRAL AMERICA. 

 {MARCGRAVIA NEPENTHOIBES, Seem.) 



By Berthold Seemann, Ph.D., F.L.S. 



Marcgravia nepenthoides, Seem., n. sp. ; foliis fertiliuni ramorum 

 brevipetiolatis ovato-ellipticis attenuatis basi acutis, supra venis ob- 

 scuris, subtus venis prominulis; racemis terminalibus,umbellatis, pendu- 

 l:s, 25-floris; pedicellis 5 interioribus ("bracteis" auct.) erectis cucullatis 

 flores steriles gerentibus, cucullis obovatis ; pedicellis 20 extcrioribus 

 patentissimis, flores normales nutantes gerentibus ; sepalis lunulatis, 

 obtusissimis ; corolla conica ; starainibus circiter 25 ; ovario 10-12- 

 loculari. Mountains of Chontales, Nicaragua (Seemann ! n. 9). 



As long as the Marcgravias preserve their sarmentose habit, they 

 have a peculiar set of leaves and never flower ; but on advancing in 

 age they assume quite a dift'crent habit and look, producing non- 

 rooting branches, and often becoming erect shrubs or even trees, and 

 in that stage they flower freely. The species here described attains 

 20 feet in height, and has quite a bushy crown, bearing numerous 

 pendulous umbelliferous racemes, which have as many as 25 pedicels, 

 the inner five of which form i)itchcrs about the size of those of Ceplialotus, 

 but much more fleshy and substantial, and of a green colour, blotched 

 with dull reddish-brown, bearing on the apex abortive flowers, and 



