NEPHRODIUM. 
Greenhouse and Stove Plants. 
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than in pots, but, we prefer the latter, as in 
them the roots cannot protrude, and in this 
way get their extension stopped as they do 
when in baskets, with the result that the 
pitchers do not get so large. Where the 
appearance of pots hung up is objected to, 
they can be plunged in baskets filled with 
sphagnum. 
The following is a selection of the 
best :— 
N. ampullacea picta. A stout, small- 
growing species, with prettily spotted 
pitchers, produced not only singly from the 
extremities of the leaves, but in clusters 
from the stem. 
N. bicalearata. A singular species from 
Borneo. It has stout foliage bearing large 
pitchers, crimson in colour, winged, and 
furnished with two horn-like spurs. 
N. Courtii. Avery distinct and hand- 
some dwarf hybrid variety, having large, 
deeply crimson spotted, flask - shaped 
pitchers. 
N. distillatoria. A well-known stout- 
growing kind, that produces its long green 
pitchers freely. 
N. Dominiana. A fine free-growing 
hybrid, with good-sized, handsome, highly- 
marked pitchers. 
N. Hookert. Nearly allied to N. Raf- 
flesiana. A compact-growing, smaller- 
pitchered species, similarly marked. 
N. hybrida maculata. A smallish grower, 
with rather long, cylindrical, deeply 
streaked or spotted pitchers with ciliated 
wings. ‘There is one peculiarity in this 
kind—that is in the pitchers coming almost 
wholly green and devoid of colour when 
the shoots attain above a certain height. 
N. lanata. A very stout-growing species 
possessing a remarkably pale yellowish- 
green shade ; the pitchers, tinged with red, 
are large, long, and prominently furnished 
with hair-like appendages. This kind we 
have found does better hung a little further 
from the glass and shaded a little more 
than some of the others. In rarity it is 
similar to N. sanguinea. 
N. Lawrenceana. A distinct small- 
pitchered hybrid variety, very pretty. 
The pitchers are profusely spotted with 
crimson. 
N: Mastersiana. This is a splendid 
hybrid variety raised by crossing the 
Indian N. sanguinea with the Chinese N. 
distillatoria. It produces very large 
pitchers, the greater part of which are of a 
bright claret-red colour. 
N. Morganie. A grand highly-coloured 
large-pitchered variety of American origin. 
It is a stout grower; the pitchers are 
flask-shaped, wings moderate in size, pale 
green mottled with red in their early 
‘stages, assuming as they get older almost a 
wholly red colour; the lid is entirely 
green. 
N. Raflesiana. Large handsome pitchers, 
flask-shaped and deeply spotted with dark 
brown, wings prominent and crested, the 
lid broad and ample. This, for its fine 
effect and general good qualities, has not 
yet been surpassed. We have had it with 
pitchers that held over a pint fairly 
measured. 
N. Rajah. A wonderful kind. Leaves 
from 1 to 2 feet long; the pitchers on a 
fully-developed plant are nearly a foot long, 
by half as much in diameter. It is a 
Bornean species, said to grow naturally at 
a considerable elevation. 
N. robusta. <A distinct hybrid variety, 
with pitchers unusually wide at the base, 
heavily spotted with reddish brown. 
N. sanguinea. A very stout-growing, 
long and large-pitchered species, with 
intense sanguime colour in the upper 
portion of the pitchers; the wings are 
narrow ; the lid erect and small. Very 
scarce and high-priced, and likely to 
remain so. 
N. Sedenit. A very pretty small-growing 
hybrid, with long pitchers, dilated at the 
base and thickly spotted with red. 
N. Stewart. A free-growing variety, 
with pretty highly-coloured — pitchers, 
thickly spotted and clouded with crimson. 
A hybrid. 
N. Williams. Compact in habit. 
Pitchers of medium size, and very highly 
coloured ; the bright red spotting is most 
profuse, often covering the greater portion 
of their surface. Also a hybrid. 
InsEcts.—So far as insects go, the con- 
tinuous use of the syringe keeps down all 
but brown scale, which, if it happens to get 
upon them, must be got rid of by sponging 
with clean water. They are too soft in 
texture for the use of any insecticide to 
be safe. 
NEPHRODIUM. 
This is a genus of moderate-sized stove 
and greenhouse Ferns, of which N. molle, 
and its crested forms are perhaps the best 
known. 
For propagation and cultivation, see 
Ferns, general details of culture. 
STOVE SPECIES. 
N. denticulatum. 
N. lucidum. Madagascar. 
N. pubescens. 
N. villosum. 
GREENHOUSE SPECIES. 
N. molle. South America. 
