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DESCRIPTION OF MALAYAN PLANTS. 
Sumatra, when he established a British 
Colony on that island, in February, 1819. 
To him, therefore, it is justly dedicated. 
W. J. 
Caule basi repente surculos urniferos pro- 
mente demum erecto foliifero, cirrhis 
foliorum muticis, ascidiis petiolatis con- 
fertis inflatis antice membranaceo-alatis, 
ore coarctato subrotundo striato, oper- 
culo lanceolato reflexo postice tricuspide. 
Found along with the preceding in the 
forests of Singapore, also at Rhio, on the 
island of Bintang. 
Root fibrous. Stem repent at the base, 
becoming erect, and supporting itself on 
the neighbouring trees, round, covered 
with a deciduous ferruginous down, urn- 
bearing at the base, and leaf-bearing above. 
The urn-bearing shoots or suckers are short 
and spring from the repent part of the 
stem; they are entirely sheathed by the 
crowded petioles of the urns, which are 
dilated and amplexicaul at the base. The 
urns or ascidia are supported on short 
Straight petioles; they are erect, ovate, 
inflated, green and spotted with purple, 
furnished anteriorly with two longitudinal, 
membranaceous, fimbriated wings ; mouth 
somewhat contracted, striated, of a uniform 
yellowish green colour, and nearly round, 
the inverted margin being prolonged fur- 
ther into the interior of the cup than in 
the other species, The Operculum is lan- 
ceolate-oblong, generally refiexed, tricus- 
pid behind the hinge. It opens at an early 
Stage, and as the urn enlarges, it becomes 
much too small to reclose it. The leaves 
come on the erect part of the stem, and 
are alternate, subpetiolate, lanceolate, from 
eight to twelve inches in length, very en- 
tire, somewhat reflex at the margin, smooth 
above, covered with a ferruginous tomen- 
fum beneath, particularly on the nerves, 
terminating at the apex in a tendril, which 
15 generally thickened and revolute at the 
extremity; the lower ones have sometimes 
urns similar to those at the base of the 
NEPENTHES AMPULLARIA. 
: - The Racemes are at first terminal, 
Rn» iren nii 
, pyramidal, 
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many-flowered; the lower pedicels three 
to four-flowered, the upper one-flowered. 
The Bracts are linear, acute, and villous 
like the raceme. 
MALE. Calyx four-parted, flat, ferru- 
ginously tomentose without, green and 
smooth within, segments ovate, rather 
acute, two opposite ones larger. Corolla 
none. Stamineous column central, erect, 
nearly as long as the calyx. Anthers about 
eight, yellow, two-celled, compacted into 
a globular head. 
FEMALE. Calyx the same as in the 
male. Ovarium superior, oblong, erect, 
eign: Style none. 
four-lobed. Capsule o 
both ends, four-angled, four-callod, four- 
valved, many-seeded, valves septiferous. 
Seeds linear, paleaceous. 
Oss. This species differs strikingly in 
habit from the others, in having the urns 
crowded near the surface of the ground. 
They are also very different in shape, be- 
ing somewhat of the form and size of an 
egg, inflated like a bladder, and the mem- 
brane thinner and more delicate than in 
the other species. The inverted rim is 
broad, and projects far into the cavity of 
the cup, forming a trap in which numbers 
of flies and insects are taken. 
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NEPENTHES PHYLLAMPHORA. 
Foliis petiolatis oblongis, Dai: nudis 
sculls superne 
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sates marcescentibus, ore striato de- 
presso, racemis longissimus, pedicellis 
unifloris. 
Cantharifera, Rumph. Amb. V. t. 59. 
Phyllamphora mirabilis. Lour. Fil. Coch. 
606. 
ant in moist places and ravines in 
the mr of Bencoolen and other 
parts of the West coast of Sumatra. 
It isa a and stronger plant than the 
N. distillatoria, and has the striated mar- 
gins of the urns flattened, depressed, and 
more everted. 
NEPENTHES DISTILLATORIA. 
Foliis sessilibus amplexicaulibus, ascidiis 
infundibuliformibus nudis, ore striato. 
