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flourish. But of all those above mentioned, though 

 they excel in beauty, none so much attract our 

 curiosity as the various and beautiful pitcher-plants, 

 eight different species of which I discovered in the 

 western part of the island. 



The pitchers, which in some instances would con- 

 tain upwards of a pint of water, hang from the mid- 

 rib of the leaf of which they are a formation ; they 

 precisely resemble pitchers, being furnished also with 

 a lid. The Nepenthes Rafflesiania produces its 

 pitchers singly ; they are large and generally crimson : 

 it grows on rocky islands in the neighbourhood of 

 Singapore, and it is easily distinguished from its near 

 ally the native of Borneo and Mount Ophir by its 

 inferior size, shortness of the column which supports 

 the lid, the white and powdered appearance of its 

 stems, and its bushy habit, never exceeding four or 

 five feet in height, while the largest Bornean one, 

 which I propose to call Nepenthes Hookeriana, in 

 honour of Sir W. J. Hooker, the able director of the 

 Botanic Gardens at Kew, is found growing in deep and 

 shaded jungles, climbing to the tops of the trees. The 

 pitcher is nine inches in length, having a large lid 

 standing on a column, which is a continuation of the 

 beautiful edge of the pitcher : that part which is 

 broadest and turned towards the mid-rib of the leaf 

 from which it depends, is furnished with two broad 

 wings, which are beautifully ciliated with large ciliae; the 

 broad pitcher for this, like the Rafflesiana, produces 

 two kinds is generally crimson; the long pitcher differs 

 from the other in its trumpet shape and green colour, 



