No. 1017.: 
NEPENTHES DISTILLATORIA famina. 
Class. Order, 
DIOECIA MONADELPHIA. 
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This extraordinary plant is а native of 
Ceylon and other parts of India: our speci- 
men, which is six or seven years old, was 
five feet in height : it flowered in July in the 
stove, which it requires at all times. We 
potted it in sandy peat, kept very moist, in 
Our plant appears not to differ in any im- 
portant particular from that figured by 
Burmann, except that his panicle seems to 
be a little more branched. The pitchers are 
said to contain pure and sweet water in 
their native country. We have not in 
generalfound any in them after the lids 
open, which they do as soon as they are 
full grown: before this, we found them 
about a quarter full of sourish water. 
The lower half of the pitcher is lined 
with minute glandular scales, from which 
this liquid is probably secreted. We have 
