232 President's Address. 



Northiana, while a white band runs round the base of the 

 rim as in N. alho-marginata. 



6. N. CuRTisii, Mast.,"*^ a new species introduced by Messrs 

 Veitch, is very distinct, and one of the best yet sent home. 

 The leaves are broad, light green in colour, and have wavy 

 margins. The tendril-like mid-rib is prolonged from the 

 under surface of the leaf, leaving a peltation at the apex 

 as in N. Rajah. The pitchers, which are freely produced, 

 are large and trumpet-shaped, dark green in colour, thickly 

 mottled with purplish brown. 



N. Curtisii superba is a variety considered to be an 

 improvement on the original species. Our plant in the 

 Botanic Garden is as yet too small to allow of my expressing 

 an opinion regarding it. 



7. N. DISTILLATORIA, L., from Ceylon, is a very elegant 

 species, with light-green pitchers about 5 inches long, and 

 with a conducting surface equalling two-thirds of its length. 

 It bulges out at the part where the digestive glands make 

 their appearance. This species requires a little more heat 

 to grow it well than does the form often grown in gardens 

 under the name of N. distillatoria, which is really N. 

 Tchasiana. 



N. distillatoria, var. ruhra, is a very pretty form with 

 reddish coloured pitchers. 



8. N. GRACILIS, Korthals, from Sumatra, and elsewhere in 

 the East, is a comparatively hardy and easily grown species. 

 The pitchers are somewhat variable in size and colour. 

 Those produced low down on the stem are purple coloured, 

 those higher up almost green, with a few purple spots dotted 

 over the inside of the pitcher. 



N. gracilis major is a form of this. 



9. K HooKERiANA, Low, introduced from Sarawak in 1847, 

 is one of the best species for general culture. It has two 

 forms of pitcher. Those at the base of the stem are round 

 and spotted with red, while the upper ones are more elongated. 

 The conducting surface is absent ; the rim is inverted and 

 set close round the mouth of the pitcher, and the lid stands 

 erect, free from the mouth characters in which the species 

 agrees with N. amtpidlaria more than with any other. 

 N. Hookeriana is generally supposed to be a variety of iV". 



* Gard. Chron., vol. ii. (3rd seiie.s), p. 681. 



