HORTUS VEITCHII 



It is distinguished by handsome sub-cylindrical crimson pitchers, from 

 3 to 4 in. long, inflated below the middle, contracted above, narrow wings 

 in front and a prominent rib on the sides. 



NEPENTHES LJEVIS, Lvndl. 



Gard. Chron. 1848, p. 655, with fig. 



A species imported from Java and Singapore, described as follows in the 

 Gardeners' Chronicle : 



" It is readily distinguished from Nepenthes phyllamphora by its narrow, 

 shining, leathery leaves, wholly destitute of fringed teeth, and by its 

 smaller pitchers inflated near the base. The crests of the pitchers are 

 sometimes fringed and sometimes naked." 



NEPENTHES LANATA, Hort. 



Gard. Chron. 1854, p. 375 (Note on Exhibit of New Plants) ; 1'Illus. Hort. 1876, t. 261 ; 

 Hooker's Monograph in the Trans. Linn. Soc. ; Masters in Gard. Chron. 1882, 

 vol. xvii. p. 178. 



Introduced from Sarawak, Borneo, where it was discovered by Thomas 

 Lobb. 



There has been confusion regarding this species, which had been 

 mistaken for Nepenthes Veitchii and vice versa. By an oversight the 

 plate in I'lllustration Horticole, Gand, quoted above, bears the name N. 

 lanata, but the accompanying text is headed N. Veitchii, and the 

 description applies to that species. 



The pitchers are 6 in. long, greenish, not in the least ventricose, winged, 

 and like its supporting tendril thickly covered with coarse hairs. 



NEPENTHES MADAGASCAEIENSIS, Poiret. 



Masters in Gard. Chron. 1881, vol. xvi. p. 685, fig. 139. 



This handsome Pitcher plant, native of the exposed swamps of Mada- 

 gascar, and probably the earliest Nepenthes to be made known in gardens, 

 was discovered by Comerson, the first European traveller in Madagascar, 

 in 1661. 



Nothing further was heard for 136 years, when Poiret, in 1797, 

 published a description in Lamarck's Encyclopaedia, and it is remarkable 

 that this species was almost the last to be introduced, nor was it sent 

 home till Curtis made a collecting mission in Madagascar in 1878-1879. 



The pitchers, only of medium size, are unusually elegant, and richly 

 coloured. 



First exhibited on October llth, 1881, before the Koyal Horticultural 

 Society, a First Class Certificate was awarded. 



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