Nepenthes.] cxxi. NEPENTHACE^:. (J. D. Hooker.) 69 



4-6 in. long; peristome very narrow; lid orbicular. Panicle 8-12 in., puberulouf. 

 Flowers % in. diam. 



* Flowers in a raceme with at its base short branches with scorpioid 

 inflorescence. 



2. N. ampullaria, Jack in Mai. Misc. ex Hook. Comp. Sot. Mag. i. 

 271 ; stem stout rusty-pubescent, leaves elliptic- or obovate-lanceolate or 

 obcuneate pubescent beneath narrowed into a short winged s-amplexicaul 

 petiole, lower pitchers fascicled globose leafless, upper saccate, wings fimbriate, 

 peristome broad and deep, lid linear reflexed, peduncle short and inflo- 

 rescence rusty-tomentose. Hook. f. in DC. Prodr. xvii. 93; Lambert, 

 Pinus II. App. t. 8 ; Korth. Verh. Nat. Gesch. 39, t. 13 ; Hook. Sot. Mag. 

 t. 5109. N. ampullacea, Blume Mus. Sot. ii. 9 ; Wall. Cat. 2243 A, in 

 part. 



SINGAPORE, Jack. MALACCA, Cuming, Griffith. DISTBIB. Sumatra, Borneo. 



Stem prostrate below, with a whorl of many short pitchers, above erect. 

 Leaves 3-12 by 1-4 in., nerves 2-4 on each side. Pitchers green, purple-spotted, 

 lower 1-2 in. diam., upper cylindric cup-shaped or hemispheric, often gibbous or in- 

 flated in front ; mouth orbicular ; throat glandular to the top ; peristome forming a 

 deep curtain in the pitcher; lid very much smaller than the mouth, eglandular, 

 Racemes 4-10 in., dense-fld. Flowers |-f in. diam. Capsule 1-1| in. 



*** Flowers simply racemose; pedicels rarely 2-fld. 



3. N. Rafflesiana, Jack in Mai. Misc. ex Hook. Comp. Hot. Mag. 

 i. 270 ; stem stout cylindric, lower leaves lanceolate upper oblong to linear- 

 lanceolate, petiole long ^-amplexicaul, lower pitchers ventricose below, wings 

 fimbriate upper funnel-shaped not winged, neck elongate, ^peristome convex 

 dilated and pectinate posteriorly, lid smooth within. Wall. Cat. 2242, 

 2243 A, in part ; Hook.f. in DC. Prodr. xvii. 96 ; Hook. Sot. Mag. t. 4285 ; 

 Fl.des Serres, t. 213, 214 ; Korth. in Ann. de G-and. iii. 7, 1. 105 ; De Vriese 

 Tuinbow Flor. i. 208, t. 5. 1ST. Hookeri, 'Alphand Prom, de Paris, cumlc. 



SINGAPORE, Jack, &c. DISTRIB. Sumatra, Borneo. 



Stem long, stout, and young leaves thinly woolly. Leaves 4-18 in., lower mem- 

 branous ; petiole 3-8 in. Pitchers puberulous, peduncle stout, lower 3-4 in. diam., 

 greenish yellow blotched with purple, mouth oblique contracted ; peristome } in. 

 broad ; upper pitchers 6-12 in. long ; wings narrow, ciliate or not ; lid with large 

 glands.' Racemes 6-10 in., white and woolly, dense-fld.; flowers in. diam. Cap- 

 sule 1-1J in. Varies from glabrous to white^woolly. 



4. N. phyllamphora, Willd. Sp. PL iv. 2. 874 ; stem cylindric, 

 leaves elliptic-oblong or lanceolate young denticulate and ciliate, petiole long 

 i-amplexicaul, pitchers subcylindric, peristome narrow, .lid oblong or 

 orbicular, racemes pubescent, pedicels slender. Wall. Cat. 2244; Brongn. 

 in Ann. Sc. Nat. \. 458 ; Jack in Mai. Misc. ex Hook. Comp. Sot. Mag. i. 

 271 ; Korthalsin Verh. Nat. Gesch. 28, t. 15 ; Hook.f. in DC. Prodr. xvii. 

 97. 1ST. fimbriata & macrostachya, Blume 1. c. ; Miquel 111. Fl. Ins. Archip. 

 3. t. 2, and o. t. 6. Phyllamphora mirabilis, Lour. FL Coch. 6Q6.Rumph. 

 Herb. Amboin. v. t. 121. 



SINGAPORE, Wallich; MALACCA, 'on Mt. Ophir, Lobb. DISTRIB. Malay Archi- 

 pelago, China, New Guinea. 



Stem short, creeping and climbing. Leaves 4-18 in., young pubernlous, nerves 

 many ; petiole 1J-5 in. Pitchers 4-6 in. long, narrowed at the base, not winged : 

 peristome -i ^ in. diam., lid densely glandular within. Racemes slender, mealy and 

 hairy ; flowers 3 in. diam. Capsule |-| in. long. 



