'Nepenthes.] cxxi. NEPENTHACE^. (J. D. Hooker.) 71 



by f-1 in., lower long acuminate, upper shorter often obtuse, nerves 3-4 on each side. 

 Pitchers 4-8 in., violet ; mouth 2-2% in. wide ; peristome very obscurely if at all striate. 

 Racemes 5-7 in. long; female shorter, tomentose ; pedicels ^-1 in. ; flowers small, 

 |-| in. diam. Capsule J-| in. Differs from N. gracilis in the glandular lid and 

 smooth peristome. 



9. N. gracilis, Korthals in Verh. Nat. Gesck. xxii. t. 1 and 4, f. 1-38 ; 

 stem glabrous 3-4-angled, leaves sessile linear-lanceolate decurrent, pitchers 

 cylindric inflated below, contracted in the middle, mouth orbicular, peri- 

 stome very narrow ribbed, lid orbicular with few glands within, racemes 

 narrow downy, pedicels short. Hook. f. in DC. Prodr. xvii. 104; Blume 

 Mus. Bot. ii. 10; Miquel Fl. Ind. Bat. i. pt. 1, 1071; Spach Suites a 

 Buffon Veg. Phan. t. 144. N. Korthalsiana, Miquel I. c. 1071, and Fl. Ins. 

 Archip. 7, t. 1. N. laevis, Korth., in part. 



MALACCA and SINGAPORE ; JacJc, Wallich. DISTEIB. Borneo.. 



Stem slender, angles obtuse. Z/eaues 4-7 by 1 in., glabrous, coriaceous; nerves 3-5 

 pairs, conspicuous. Pitchers 2-4 in. long, glabrous, membranous, lower winged ; 

 mouth rather dilated ; peristome very narrow or almost filiform ; glands of lid very 

 few and large. Racemes tomentose or glabrate, pedicels J-| in. Flowers ^- in. 

 broad. Capsule slender, f-lj in. long, glabrous. 



ORDER CXXII. CVTXNACEJE. 



Leafless brown reddish or yellowish parasites, or with leaves reduced to 

 scales. Flowers solitary or 'in a spadix-like spike, or clustered on the root 

 or branch of the host. Perianth superior, 3-10-cleft, segments or lobes 

 imbricate or valvate. Stamens 8 or more, forming a fleshy ring round the 

 style, or inserted on the perianth, 2-celled, bursting by pores or slits. Ovary 

 ] -celled, or with many spurious cells formed of branching fleshy pendulous 

 or parietal placentas; stigmas various. Ovules excessively numerous, 

 orthotropous or anatropous. Fruit fleshy, 1 -celled. Seeds innumerable, 

 very minute, sometimes sunk in the placentas, nucleus homogeneous, 

 or albumen cellular with a most minute embryo. Genera 7, species 22, 

 mostly tropical. 



1. SAPRIA, Grif. 



Plant dioecious, consisting of a solitary large flower sessile in a cup 

 formed of the bark of a vine-stem,- surrounded at the base by large broad 

 opposite imbricating bracts. MALE I?L. Perianth-tube hemispheric and 

 solid below, cupular above and marked with 20 radiating ridges ; limb 10- 

 partite, segments rounded or oblong imbricate in two rows, spreading ; from 

 the base of the tube rises a stout columnar style crowned with a broad cup- 

 shaped very hairy disk. Anthers about 20, sessile in a ring under the disk, 

 subglobose, 2-3-celled, opening outwards by one pore. FEM. FL. Perianth 

 of the male. Ovary traversed by longitudinal sinuous cells the walls of 

 which are covered with anatropous ovules ; stigma, a papillose cone in the 

 centre of the disk. Fruit the swollen globose ovary crowned with the 

 perianth. 



S. himalayana, Griff, in Proc. Linn. Soc. i. 216, and in Trans. Linn. 

 Soc. xix. 314, t. 34, 35; Hook. f. in DC. Prodr. xvii. 112. S. Griffithii, 

 Brown in Trans. Linn. Soc. xix. 244. 



EASTERN ASSAM ; in the Mishuii Hills, on the roots of a vine, alt. 3-5000 ft., 

 Griffith. 



