286 Flora of the Malayan Peninsula. 
with fine purple spots or coloring without and within; peristome 
narrow, cylindric, uniform, striate; lid 1—2°5 cm., orbicular-cordate, 
glabrous, glandular within; pitcher over upper half within glaucous 
green to purple, below shining glandular, upper row of glands large. 
Inflorescence 10—40 cm. long, slender; pedicels 1- rarely 2-flowered. 
Sepals elliptic, tomentose without. Siaminal column shorter than 
sepals, glabrous; anthers 12—8, convolute. Ovary ovate, ferrugineo- 
tomentose. Capsule 2—3 cm. long, often curved, brown, shining. 
Seeds 15 mm. long. Spach Hist Nat. des Veg. XIII 325, t. 144; 
Miq. HI. Ind. Bat. Li. 1071; Hook. f. in DC. Prod. XVII 104 and in FI. 
Br. Ind. V. 71; Beccari Malesia III. 14; G. Beck in Wien. III. 
Gart. Zeit. (1895) 190; Macfar. in Engl. Pfl.-reich IV. iii. 58. WN. 
levis, Lindl. in Gard. Chron. (1848) 655. WN. Korthalsiana Miq. }.c. 
1071, Suppl. 151, 366, and Ill. Fl. Arch. Ind. (1871) 2 t. 1. 
PEeNaNG: at Batu Ferengy, Curtis!. Perak: at Larut, King’s 
Collector 1941!, 4019!, 4025!, 4084! at 100 ft. alt. Dinpines: at 
Pulau Sembilan, Curtis!. Manacca: Jack!; Wallich 2248!; Cuming 
2310!; at Ayer Panas, Derry!; at Bukit Bruang, Curtis!. JOHOR: ? 
Ridley 11026!. Sineapore: 7’. Anderson 1671; at Changi, Ridley!. 
at Bukit Timah, Ridley (Engl. 3911)!. 
N. gracilis var. arenaria, Ridley in Hbb. Kew and Calcutta N. 
1473 is a dwarf pale form, that grew in wet sandy spots at Pramau 
in Pahang. 
9. NEPENTHES RAFFLESIANA, Jack in Comp. Bot. Mag. I. 270 
(1835). A tall rarely dwarf climbing shrub. Stem 15 m. or less, 
cylindric, branched, white tomentose when young, at length glabrous. 
Leaves 20—50 cm. long, 5—10 cm. broad, subcoriaceous, petiolate, 
petiole 5—15 cm. long, winged, semiamplexicaul; blade oblong to 
elliptic, densely white tomentose when young, later glabrous; longi- 
tudinal veins usually 5 pairs, inconspicuous; lateral nerves obscure 
obliquely ascending, parallel; tendril 20—40 cm. long, thickened 
toward pitcher; pitchers 10—20 cm. long, 7 -12 em. broad, dimor- 
phic, lower ventricose. pale green or whitish green, richly purple 
spotted wings widely expanded below narrowed upward, ciliate; 
peristome ovate, oblique, elevated posteriorly into a high neck with 
dentate inner edge that carries lid, purple and green striped; upper 
pitchers 12—30 cm. long, 4—10 cm. broad, infundi buliform, pale 
green, purple striate or spotted; wings narrow, shortly or not ciliate, 
or reduced to strong ridges; lid 4—10 cm. long, 3—8 cm. broad, 
ovate-oblong, without glabrous, within with 2 parallel patches of 
