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gularly striated, and generally more highly 
coloured than the rest of the urn; it turns 
inwards, and forms a peculiar inverted rim, 
which is denticulate at the edge, in a man- 
ner corresponding to the striæ. By this 
peculiar inversion, it becomes impossible 
entirely to empty the cup of its water by 
holding it downwards, and it also forms a 
kind of trap for whatever enters from with- 
out, as ingress proves easier than regress, 
owing to the row of teeth just mentioned, 
which oppose themselves to it. The cups, 
in consequence, are almost always found 
full of insects that have been lured into the 
toil, and paid the forfeit of their curiosity. 
While young, the mouth of the cup is 
closed by an operculum or lid, attached by 
a kind of hinge to the posterior angle, 
which opens at a certain stage, and never 
closes again. The young cups are about 
half-full of a pure, limpid, and almost 
tasteless fluid, but after the opening of the 
operculum it soon becomes polluted with 
foreign matter. It has been stated that 
the lid shuts every night to supply the 
waste of fluid during the preceding day, 
but a very little observation shows this to 
be a mistake. The Malay name of the 
genus is Priokra, or Kachongbruh, which 
signifies the esa ae st 
DESCRIPTION OF 
NEPENTHES RAPELESIAMA. W. J. 
Foliis petiolatis, ascidiis inferiorum ventri- 
coso-campanulatis antice membranaceo- 
alatis, superiorum infundibuliformibus 
nudis, omnium ore pulcherrime striato 
obliquo postice assurgente. 
MALAYAN PLANTS. 
apex; they terminate in larger, ventricose, ; 
and highly scidia or urns, fringed 
along the anterior Hh with two mem- 
branaceous fimbriate wings, somewhat con- 
tracted at the mouth, which opens ser 
rising much higher, and slightly recu 
behind, where the operculum is inserted. 
The tendrils of the upper leaves are twist- 
ed into one or two spires at the middle, 
and terminate in long ascending funnel- 
shaped urns, flattened anteriorly but not 
winged, and gracefully turned at the mouth 
like an antique vase or urn. Both have 
the inverted margin beautifully and deli- 
cately striated, and variegated with parallel 
stripes of purple, crimson, and yellow. 
The opercula are incumbent, membranace- 
ous, ovate, marked with two principal lon- 
gitudinal nerves, and cuspidate behind the 
hinge. The racemes are at first terminal, 
but the stem begins, after a time, to shoot 
beyond them, and they become lateral, and 
are always opposed to a leaf which differs 
from the others in being sessile, and its 
cirrhus never having an urn at its extre- 
mity. The pedicels are one-flowered. 
Mate. Calyz deeply four-parted, to- 
mentose on the outer surface, smooth, red, 
and punctate on the inner, segments ob- 
Corolla none. The 
ous, yellow, contorted into a round terminal 
head. 
FEMALE. Calyz as in the male. Ova- 
rium superior, oblong, four-sided, erect 
Style none. Stigma sessile, peltate, four- 
tiges: of the forests of the island of lobed. Capsule oblong, somewhat curv 
The. R 
we is fibrous. Stem ascending 
at the base, becoming erect, —. 
itself on the neighbouring trees ; the young 
parts covered with a deden tomentum both 
or down. The leaves ess s olternate, petio- 
late, the 1 1 la nceolate, 
the upper ones more remote and oblong; 
the adult leaves are smooth ; all are entire, 
four-angled, deeply furrowed at the sides, 
four-celled, four-valved, the valves septi- 
ferous in the middle, many-seeded. Seeds 
long, linear, membranaceous, and acute at 
ends, arranged wien and 
affixed by the base to the partitio 
Oss. This is the largest and asi mag- 
nificent species of the genus, being adorned 
with two kinds of urns, both elegant in 
their forms, and brilliant in their colouring. 
It was first discovered with the following. 
Enim NE 
