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NEPEXTHES 



below the water-liiio, seeming to know by instinct— or is 

 it expcrinin-r-' — tliMt the water of the pitchers sooperateil 

 upon will will ii|, thr hi.lc as it does in a syphon pipe." 

 The two ~|H ,11^ (.1" j.iti-her plants just mentioned are 

 const:tiilly r,.l,li,il hy iu>L-ct-cating birds. The Borneans 

 call thi- pii.hir pl:iuts " monkeys' cooking pots." Bur- 

 bidge was presented by the natives with delicious rice 

 daintily cooked in clean pitchers of N. Rookeriana. 



The pitchers of Nepenthes are borne at the ends of 

 the leaves. They are usually flask-shaped, sometimes 

 mug-shaped, rarely cylindrical. (For examples of these 

 3 shapes, see Figs. 1470-72.) A pitcher always has a lid. 



young pil 



;epenthes 



the cotyledons is a little pitcher. 



trs," according to Harry James 



continuous with the blade and form part of it ; then 



sessile, and later separated from it by a prolongation of 



the midrib; they are produced siniultaneouslv with the 



blade, not after it. as in the adult phnit. *' ♦ * As 



leaves eontinn.- to I.,- |.i-..,lu.'.ci. s,, :, -,■:.. in:.] .Iiiiij, in 



the size aii'l .h:L|H- .,r t]„- |,ii,-li, i- l. . ■,,, ,,|,;. ,, m. 

 Instead of ihr jtiirli.'i- iM-m^ i^cmIu' > ■' " .I;, i-lv 



■utral wings constantly diminish in breadth and 

 liate fringe disappears until the place of the wings 

 rioted only by two narrow keels, and instances 



jV. iimiiiillaria, which he saw in Sarawak, that the lirst 

 f'liiiird leaves have no blades but only pitchers, with 

 wliicli the ground is frequently covered as with a 



Oilier hnhits of growth, are no less interesting. Sonic 

 of the Nepenthes keep to the ground, but most of them 

 climb tall trees. The species are, with very few excep- 

 tions, all more or less epiphytal, and N. Veitchii is saiil 

 to be wholly so. As they climb, the tips of the leaves 

 take a tumor two around a nearby twig. Like all pitcher 

 plants, Nepenthes are poorly supplied with roots, and 

 as the plants grow above tliev are said to die away below. 



Thus their lowest i.-im m.i I- ?•' f- i M-^- :■ n.l. 



However, they can - I ' '! • i ' ' ! ' i' hi 



and penetrate tlie :l. - i I n. n 



often found on tli- " • ■ - '^-i. 



a mouth surrounded by a rim, a little spur at the back 

 (which is usually iiist where the midrib of the back of 

 the pitclier joins the liil i :uiil two winL's running up and 



down tlic> from, of ihe |iiirii. r, I'hi- i.ro.nii-r these wings 

 and the lo)i^, J- I heir It Ml ■ ' '! ! ' I M.-r the pitcher, 



as a rul.-. Tin- rnnruoiii' ' ' ■, I onietimes bears 

 numerou- doH iii\:iril-|"'i!, ii.i i. ■' liic-h have been 



types 



practically all the hybri'i ■ n - :i i lu-li ,■ i 'i.c- ,i . -r, nmn 

 peas, at least so far as i i ; i \ i. 



exceptional kinds can 1 1' : , i . , , , 



bases of their leaves, oi I. V \.ii,iih . I, . ii,, 

 furnish little help in di^iiuKui^liMi^ -i-, , i, - :ii,,i. ;, .. 

 rule, the cultivator wants pitchei-. noi ibiw. i,. TIm 

 pitchers will "hold water," but it i- .loul.tiul if iln- pn - 

 ent classification of them will. Th.- iliilirulii,., of ili.> 

 case will be apparent from the foUowin;,' .leiount .)f how 

 the pitchers change in form and color as a plant de- 

 velops. 



How the Pilchers Chanr/e.— 'When a Nepenthes is 

 grown from seed, the very first thing that develops after 



''I ..irs, or thpreal)outs, known to science,' 



II are confined to Borneo, .") more are 



, I I., iliii and ad.iacent islands, 13 more are extra- 



Boniean lint strictly Malaysian, the remaining 6 are 

 much scattered — there is one in North Australia, one 

 in New Caledonia, one in Ceylon, one in the Seychelles, 

 one in Madagascar and one in northeast India." The 



