HORTUS VE1TCHI1 



Nepenthes Curtisii, from which, however, it differs in several important 

 particulars. 



The pitchers, 6 to 7 in. in length by about 1| in. at their broadest part, 

 are green, thickly mottled with longitudinal dark reddish-purple blotches, 

 cylindric, narrowed in the middle, with two moderately deep laciniate 

 wings. 



NEPENTHES VEITCHII, Hook. f. 



Hook. f. in Trans. Linn. Soc. vol. xxii. p. 421 ; Burbidge in Fl. Mag. t. 265 ; 

 Masters in Gard. Chron. 1872, p. 541 ; id. 1881, vol. xvi. p. 780, fig. 152 ; The 

 Garden, 1880, vol. xxvii. p. 542, pi. 237 ; W. W. in Gard. Chron. 1896, vol. xx. 

 p. 239. 



A very handsome species sent to Exeter by Thomas Lobb in 1847, from 

 Mount Kina Balu in Sarawak, confused with one, Nepenthes villosa, 

 probably from the fact that the pitchers and leaves are densely covered 

 with hair : figured in the Botanical Magazine under that name. 



Though destitute of the rich colouring possessed by many, the broad 

 reflexed finely ribbed peristome, of a creamy olive or reddish colour, and 

 the pale green hairy body of the pitcher, render it a striking object. 



Never common in cultivation, it is now rare. 



NEPENTHES x BALFOUEIANA. 



Gard. Chron. 1899, vol. xxvi. pp. 90, 91, fig. 39. 



A very remarkable hybrid named in compliment to Professor Bailey 

 Balfour of the Edinburgh Botanic Gardens, raised at Chelsea from 

 Nepenthes X mixta and N. x Mastersiana, the descendant of four 

 distinct species. 



NEPENTHES x CHELSONI. 



Veitchs' Catlg. of PI. 1874, p. 11, fig. ; The Garden, 1877, vol. xi. p. 429, fig. 



A hybrid raised by Seden at Chelsea from a cross between Nepenthes x 

 Dominii and N. Hookeri. 



The pitchers, of a peculiar urn-shape, broad at the base, narrowing 

 towards the rim, with two broad wings ciliate along the margin, are 

 heavily blotched with crimson. 



NEPENTHES x CHELSONI, var. EXCELLENS. 



Veitchs' Catlg. of PI. 1903, p. 59, with fig. 



A hybrid raised at Chelsea by Tivey from the original Nepenthes X 

 Chelsoni and N. Eafflesiana, the latter the seed parent and a very 

 magnificent urn. 



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