INSECTIVOROUS PLANTS 



NEPENTHES NOETHIANA, Hook. f. 



Masters in Gard. Chron. 1881, vol. xvi. p. 717, fig. 144 and suppl. 



The existence of this noble species was first made known to science 

 through Miss North, the well-known botanical artist. 



Nepenthes Northiana formed the subject of a sketch by this lady, 

 made in Sarawak, North- West Borneo, from specimens brought to her 

 by Mr. Herbert Everett of the Borneo Company, who "traversed pathless 

 forests amid snakes and leeches, to find and bring them down to her." 



The sketch having been shown to Mr. Harry Veitch, was at once 

 recognized as a new and desirable species, and Curtis, about to start at 

 the time on a collecting expedition to the East, was instructed to especially 

 search for the plant. After some difficulty he succeeded, sent seed to 

 Chelsea in 1881, from which plants were raised. 



NEPENTHES EAJAH, Hook. f. 



Gard. Chron. 1881, vol. xvi. p. 492, fig. 91; Veitchs' Catlg. of PI. 1883, p. 53, fig.; 



Bot. Mag. t. 8017. 



This remarkable species first made known in 1851 by Sir Hugh Low, 

 who discovered it on Mount Kina Balu, in Borneo, though he failed to 

 introduce to cultivation, and it was Burbidge, collecting in 1878, who 

 first succeeded in procuring seed from which plants were raised at 

 Chelsea. 



The huge bag-shaped pitchers are thus described by Sir J. D. Hooker : 

 " The broad ampullaceous pitcher is 6 in. in diameter and 12 in. long; it 

 has two fimbriated wings in front, is covered with long rusty hairs above, 

 and studded with glands within. The margin is scolloped into bold 

 undulations, and the lid is sub-orbicular 10 in. long and 8 in. broad." 



Unfortunately this noble species is unusually difficile, and now exceed- 

 ingly rare. 



NEPENTHES SANGUINEA, Lindl. 



Gard. Chron. 1849, p. 580, fig. ; Veitchs' Catlg. of PI. 1873, p. 43. 



A magnificent species, with pitchers of a dark crimson, blood-red 

 colour, with a peculiar milk-white interior. Introduced to Exeter 

 through Thomas Lobb, who met with it on Mount Ophir ; the pitchers 

 often 12 in. in length by 2* to 3 in. in width, are of cylindrical shape with 

 a dilatation at the middle and a broad margin round the aperture, and 

 have been known to hold a pint of water. 



NEPENTHES STENOPHYLLA, Mast. 



Masters in Gard. Chron. 1890, vol. viii. p. 243 ; id. 1892, vol. xi. p. 401, fig. 

 A species from Borneo, at first thought to be but a mere form of 



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