NEPENTHES 



resulted from N. sanguinea and N. Khasiana, and N. x mixta from N. Curtisii 

 with N. Northiana. The pitchers are of a sub-cylindric shape, from 7 to 9 in. 

 long, stained with carmine, marked with crimson spots and streaks on a yellowish- 

 green ground. 



Another beautiful Pitcher oifered in 1903 is probably one of the finest hybrid 

 Nepenthes in cultivation, a result effected by Tivey between N. x mixta and 

 N. x Dicksoniana, both hybrids. It is named *Sir William T. Thiselton- 

 Dyer in honour of the late Director of the Royal Gardens, Kew. The pitchers 

 attain a length of 14 in. or more, are sub-cylindric in shape, with a handsome 

 peristome or ribbed mouth, the colour bright crimson, and the form undulate 

 as in N. x mixta. The ground colour of the body is green, the surface 

 irregularly blotched with large spots of purplish or crimson brown. In addition 

 to the ordinary slender spur at the back of the lid, the hump-like process 

 characteristic of N. Curtisii is prominent. 



Another offspring of the same parents, but from a separate cross, was exhibited 

 in 1903 as t Nepenthes x picturata, so called from a highly-coloured, spotted 

 pitcher and lid. It attains large dimensions, and is 10 to 12 in. in length, 

 and the rim round the mouth is exceptionally fine and of a rich brownish-red. 

 A further cross to the two preceding varieties has produced quite a distinct 

 form, to which the name F. W. Moore has been applied, in compliment to the 

 Curator of the Botanic Gardens, Glasnevin. The pitchers, somewhat globular 

 in form and green in colour, have a moderately broad rim of deep reddish- 

 brown. 



The majority or all of the hybrids mentioned, raised under artificial conditions 

 in this country, have proved more amenable to cultivation than many species 

 from the equatorial regions, and, from a horticultural point of view, are very 

 much superior. 



* Card. Chron. 1900, vol. xxviii. p. 256, fig. 76. 

 t Flora and Sylva, 1904, vol. ii. p. 68, fig. 



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