DR. J. D. HOOKER ON THE BORNEAN SPECIES OF NEPENTHES. 423 



pitchers arc usually covered with a short white tomentum, and the broad Avhitc velvety 

 ))and surrounding the narrow polished Ijrown annulus affords a very marked character. 

 The pitchers of the Sincapore specimen are (when dry) of a beautiful rose-colour blotched 

 with purple. 



13. Nepenthes melamphora, Reinwardt ; Miquel, Flor. i. 1072, cum syn. &c- 



|3. lucida, Blume, Mus. Lugd. Bat. ii. p. 8. 



Hab. Southern Borneo {Kort/ials, Motiley). Also found in Eastern Bengal and Java. 



I have received Bornean specimens of this plant, collected by Mottley at Banjarmassing, 

 on the south coast of Borneo, where it was first detected by Korthals. The originally 

 described form grows at an elevation of 3000-5000 feet in Java. 



I take the East Bengal Nepenthes to be the same species ; it was sent from that country* 

 by Carey to Europe, and published by Graham in the ' Botanical Magazine ' (t. 2798) as 

 the Ceylon N. distillatoria, L. (from which it is very different). It has also been gathered 

 by Griffith in the same place, and by Dr. Thomson and myself near Amwee, on the 

 Jyntea Hills — the eastern continuation of the Khasia Mountains and north of Silhet, 

 whence probably all the specimens were sent, as the plant and that particular habitat are 

 well known to the natives of those districts. The figure in the ' Bot. Mag.' well repre- 

 sents the Bengal plant in every respect ; but the dried raceme in Herb. Hook., from whicli 

 the drawing was made, is much more tomentose than any specimens gathered by Thomson, 

 Griffith, or myself, or by Korthals, Blume, or E-einwardt in Java. One of Griffith's 

 Bengal specimens is in tliis respect intermediate between ours and those of the Edinburgh 

 Gardens. Korthals' figure is not characteristic, except of a small half-starved-looking 

 form. 



I have a pitcher of what I take to be tliis species upwards of a foot long ; it was grown 

 in Mr. RoUisson's Nursery. 



§ V. Ascidia brevia, ore contracto, annulo lata creberrime sulcata, operculo parvo. 



14. Nepenthes amptjllaeia. Jack ; Hook. Comp. Bot. Mag. i. 271 ; Miq. Flora, i. 1076, 

 cum syn. &c. 



Hab. Borneo {Lobb, Low, Mottley). Also found in Malacca and Sumatra {Jack, Cuming, Korthals). 



EXPLANATION OF THE PLATES. 

 Tab. LXIX. 



y!epenlhcs villosa, II. f. 

 Fig. I. 6 raceme; nat. size. Fig. 2. d flower. Fig. 3. 2 flower. Fig. 4. Fruit, Fig. 5. Portion of 

 under surface of lid : — all magnified. 



* From tlie Circar Mountains in N.E. Bengnl, Bot. Mag. /. c. The Khasia Mouiituius are those meant here — the 

 (ircars being iu the Peninsula. 



