280 Flora of the Malayan Peninsula. 
bicaudate testa and embryo in axis of albumen.—DistTRIB. Mada- 
gascar to Philippine Islands and N. Australia; one genus with about 
65 species. 
NEPENTHES, Linn. 
' Characters as given above. 
Inflorescence a raceme of paniculate cymes; ig 
lid small, reflexed a0 - «. 1. N. ampatlaria. 
Inflorescence a raceme, pedicels 3 —1 dower 
Longitudinal leaf-veins 2 to 4 pairs. 
Leaves sessile, more or less amplexicaul, non- 
decurrent. 
Leaf-veins 2 pairs, marginal, obscure, pitcher 
elongate with white tomentose collar 
below the corrugated, peristome -- 2. WN. albo-marginata. 
Leaf-veins 3 pairs, marginal, obscure, 
pitcher elongate with dull tomentose 
collar below the peristome .. 3. N. gracillima. 
Leaf-veins 4 pairs, disposed between nb 
and margin, lid glabrous within; pedi- 
cels usually 1-flowered 20. 4. WN. singalana. 
Leaf-veins 4, rarely 5, pairs, disposed He 
tween rib and margin, lid glabrous within; 
pedicels 3—2-flowered at least below .. 5. WN. sanguinea. 
Leaf-veins 4 pairs, lid with long rigid hairs 
within ; pedicels biflorous, bracteolate.. 6. N. Macfarlanev, 
Leaves sessile, decurrent, leaf-veins 2, rarely 
3 pairs; pedicels biflorous below, uniflorous 
above 2 
Longitudinal leaf-veins 56 pairs, 
Leaves sessile, amplexicaul, decurrent; peris- 
=I 
N. Reinwardtiana. 
tome uniform, narrow 8. WN. gracilis. 
Leaves sandr s: peristome of mibener olaneate 
posteriorly into a high neck we .. 9. N. Rafflesiana. 
Longitudinal leaf-veins 7—10 pairs. 
Leaves petiolate, herbaceous, margin delicately 
ciliate-dentate ote ge .. 10. WN. phyllamphora. 
1, NEPENTHES AMPULLARIA, Jack in Comp. Bot. Mag. I. 271 
(1835). A tall climbing shrub, sometimes with prostrate branches. 
Stem 12—20 m. high, cylindric, ferrugineo-tomentose when young, at 
length brown glabrous, internodes usually elongated. Leaves 10—35 
cm. long, 4—9 cm. broad, petiolate, half-amplexicaul; petiole winged. 
gradually expanding into a lamina; lamina lanceolate to obovate, 
ferrugineo-tomentose when young at length glabrous, sparsely hairy 
beneath; longitudinal veins 4, rarely 3 pairs, parallel, united by 
oblique parallel nerves; leaves on prostrate branches often crowded 
