70 cxxi. NEPEXTHACE^E. (J. D. Hooker.) [Nepenthes. 



r>. N. sang'uinea, Lindl. in Gard. Chron. 1849, 580, with wood-cut; 

 stem stout 3-gonous, leaves sessile obovate-oblong or cuneate cordately 

 umplexicaul, pitchers large young short ventricose below narrowly 2- winged, 

 old cylindric narrowed below, peristome broad dilated posteriorly, lid 

 densely glandular within, racemes lax-fld., pedicels long capillary. HooJc.f. 

 in DC. Prodr. xvii. 100. N". sanguinea, Griff. Posth. Papers, iv. 348. 



MALACCA ; at Goonong Ledang, Griffith ; Mt. Ophir, Lobb. 



Often epiphytic ; branches short, stout. Leaves with imbricating bases ; nerves 

 2-3 hairs, obscure. Pitchers 12 by 2^-3^- in., blood-red,, scurfy ; mouth broad, ovate, 

 produced behind ; peristome -f in. broad, inner margin inflcxed ; lid membranous. 

 Racemes pubescent, male a foot long, female shorter ; pedicels 1-1 i in. ; .flowers small, 

 - in. diam. 



6. N. khasiana, Hook. f. in DC. 'Prodr. xvii. 102; stem cylindric, 

 leaves sessile amplexicaul lanceolate base shortly decurrent penninerved, 

 pitchers large subcylindric inflated below, mouth contracted, peristome 

 broad, racemes robust puberulous, pedicels short. N. distillatoria, Wall. 

 Cat. 2244, in part ; Grah. in Bot. Mag. t. 2798. K phyllamphora, Herb. 

 Lid. Or. H.f. # T. 



KHASIA and J YNTEA MTS., Wallich, &c. 



Stem short, stout, elongate under cultivation, prostrate, leafy. Leaves 1-2 ft. by 

 in., acute or acuminate, base narrowed, nerves numerous. Pitchers 4-7 by 

 in., membranous, glabrous, green, reddish above, young shortly winged; 

 mouth orbicular; peristome cylindric ; lid membi-anous. Racemes lateral and terminal, 

 puberulous ; pedicels ^ in. ; flowers ^ in. diam., green. Capsule -1 in. long. A 

 specimen of this in Herb. Wallich is marked as from " Courtallam, Serb. Heyne," 

 but has never been found there by any subsequent collector, and it is inconceivable 

 that the natives should not know so remarkable a plant. 



7. N. albo-marg-inata, Loll ex Lindl. in Gard. Chron. 1849, 580, 

 with wood -cut ; stem subcylindric and racemes and pitchers hoary-pubescent, 

 leaves subsessile with a shortly decurrent i-amplexicaul base elliptic- 

 lanceolate acuminate, pitchers cylindric or funnel-shaped, or younger 

 ventricose below, with a white velvety band on the neck, peristome narrow, 

 lid orbicular glandular within, racemes long, pedicels very slender. HooJc.f. 

 in Trans. Linn. Soc. xxii. 422, t. 73, and in D'C. Prodr. xvii. 102. N. 

 tomentella, Miguel Fl. Ind. Sat. i. pt. 1, 1075, and III. Fl. Ins. Archip. v., 

 t. 5. N. distillatoria, Wall. Cat. 2244, in part. 



SINGAPORE, Wallich. DISTRIB. Borneo. 



Hoary-pubescent. Stem elongate, subtomeutose or subsilky. Leaves 8-14 by 

 ^ -1 in. ; nerves 1-2 on each side, slender. Pitchers 3-5 by 1 in., green purple 

 or mottled with purple and red, stellately downy, lower ventricose below with fimbriate 

 wings, upper narrower. Racemes elongate, lax-fld. ; pedicels f-1 in. ; flowers -i- in. 

 diam. Capsule 1^-2 in. 



8. N. Reinwardtiana, Miguel in Plant. Jungh. i. 168, and Fl. Ind. 

 Sat. i. pt. 1, 1075, and Illust. PL Ins. Archip. 4, t. 4; stem glabrous 

 obtusely 3-gonous, 2-3-winged above, leaves sessile ^-amplexicaul liuear- 

 lanceolate acuminate shortly decurrent glabrous, pitchers subcylindric 

 inflated below glabrous, mouth dilated produced posteriorly, peristome 

 narrow smooth, lid densely glandular within, racemes downy lax-fld., 

 pedicels slender. Hook.f. in DC. Prodr. xvii. 103. N. distillatoria-, Wall. 

 Cat. 2244, in part. 



SINGAPORE, Wallich. DISTRIB. Sumatra, Borneo. 



Stem subcylindric below, winged above by the decurrent leaf bases. Leaves 5 -10 



