40 | CVI. ELEAGNACER, [_Bleagnas, 
much broader, ope no amet about 2 lines long, slightly con- | 
tracted at the top, the lim riis to 3 or 34 lines diameter. Fila- ! 
ment very short. Ovary glabrous. Fruiting base of the men oa 
im. long, cr: furrowed when dry. Seed about 4 in. l 
ight, =e 1856 
. Qu Rockingham Bay, Dallachy; Pioneer river, Vernet.—' The e species | 
is common in Ce a n and i im various parts of India and the Archi elago. It should in: 
flowers also in a less degree. The Australian specimens agree perfectly with many of | 4 
the Cingalese ones; I have observed no spines on any “of them. The fruit is said to be - : 
edible. | 
Orver CVII. NEPENTHACE E. 
Flowers dicecious. Male oue of 4 rarely 3 sepal-like segments, 
imbricate in the bud. Stamens4 to = oe filaments united in a central 
column ; anthers united in a head, in 1 or 2 rows, 2-ce lled. the cells. 
openin " outwards in longitudinal iia: Female e perianth as in the males, 
or rarely the segments united at the base. Ovary 4- rarely 3-angled, 
1 B 
ments; stigma sessile, with as many lobes as ovary-cells, the lobes. 
entire or bifid. Ovules very numerous in men cell, attached to a pla- 
centa vui on the dissepiment, ascendin 
anatropous. Capsules 
coriac openin locnlicidally í in 4 rarely 3 valves. Seeds 
air reds si d upwards; testa membranous, produced at each end 
into a capillary point or t mbryo straight, in - axis of a flesh w 
ing 
ating ves. Leaves alternate, slong ated j 
without stipules, the base or the winged ole mes the stem, 
marked with a few nearly parallel ese eei s Aid numerous. 
transverse vainlets, the mide usuall produced iiber into a tendril or | 
into a pendulous pitcher provided cy o 
of the orifice thickened into a peristome in ; 
tern ae at the back. Flowers small, green, in terminal racemes a | 
panicle * 
The odii limited to the single genus Y neg is Vidi over Southern Asia ‘and 
the pled of the Indian and South Pacific Oceans, but m t abundant in the Indian 
elago. The only Australian qe deadtibed as á sadi is as yet too i: 
fectly.l known for accurate determinat 
1. NEPENTHES, Linn. 
E and pact of the Order. 
. N. Kennedyi, F. Muell.. Fragm. 
tems or branches 
nios stout, glabrous 
154. Ste : 
or ini young pibas with stellate hairs. 
