NEPHRODIUM. 



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tlian 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. ampiiUacea pida. 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. 



iV. bicalcarata. A singular species from 

 Borneo. It has stout foliage bearing large 



tellers, crimson in colour, winched, and 



furnished with two horn-like spurs. 



N. Courtii. A very distinct and hand- 

 some dwarf hybrid variety, having large, 

 deeply crimson spotted, flask - shaped 

 pitchers. 



iV. distillatoria. A well-known stout- 

 growing kind, that produces its long green 

 pitchers freely. 



iV. Dominiana. A fine free-growing 

 hybrid, with good-sized, handsome, highly- 

 marked pitchers. 



N. Hookeri. Nearly allied to N. Raf- 

 flesiana. A compact-gro\^^ng, smaller- 

 jiitchered species, similarly marked. 



N. hyhrida macidata. 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. 



iV. 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. Mastcrsiana. This is a splendid 

 hylirid 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. 



iV. Morganice. A grand highly-coloured 

 large-pitchered %ariety 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. Rnfflesiana. Large handsome pitchers, 

 flask-shaped and deeply spotted with dark 

 broAvn, 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 ftiirly 

 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. rohuMa. A distinct hybrid variety, 

 with pitchers unusually \nde at the base, 

 heavily spotted with reddish bro^\^l. 



iV. sanguinea. A very stout-growing, 

 long and large-pitchered species, with 

 intense sanguine 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. Sedenii. A very pretty small-growing 

 hybrid, with long pitchers, dilated at the 

 base and thickly sjjotted with red. 



N. Steivartii. A free-growing variety, 

 Avith pretty highly-coloured pitchers, 

 thickly spotted and clouded with crinison. 

 A hybrid. 



N. Williamsii. 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 sj^onging 

 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. 



iV. denticulatum. 



N. liicidum. Madagascar. 



N. puhescens. 



N. villosum. 



GREEMHOUSE SPECIES. 



N. molle. South America 



