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CCVI1. NEPENTHES. 



Nepenthes. 

 Ovule (mag.). 



Nepenthes. 

 Seed, entire and cut vertically (mag.). 



Nepenthes. 

 Seed. Commencement of germination. 



Nepenthes. 

 Leaf with a winged petiole, and terminating in an operculate pitcher. 



Nepenthes. 

 Beed. 



Nepenthes. 

 Seed. Germination completed. 



FLOWERS dioecious. PERIANTH single. STAMENS united above into an antheri- 

 ferous column. OVARY several-celled, many-ovuled. CAPSULE with loculicidal semi- 

 septiferous valves. SEEDS scobiform, many-seriate on the 2 faces of the septa ; ALBUMEN 

 fleshy. EMBRYO straight, axile. LEAVES terminated by an operculate pitcher. 



Suffrutescent PLANTS with prostrate or sarmentose stem ; wood without concen- 

 tric zones, but with numerous bundles of tracheae dispersed across the pith and liber, 

 and surrounding the woody axis. LEAVES alternate ; petiole winged at the base, the 

 midrib prolonged at the top and curved or spirally twisted, and terminating in a 

 second foliaceous expansion, which is hollowed like an urn (the pitcher), to the 

 opening of which is fitted a sort of lid attached as by a hinge, and capable of being 

 lowered or raised, so that the pitcher is sometimes closed, sometimes open ; it is 

 often found to contain a watery liquid before the raising of the lid. FLOWERS 

 dioecious, numerous, in a raceme or sub-terminal panicle, which becomes lateral by 



