262 OENAMENTAL FOLIAGE PLANTS. 



N. Dominiana. — This is said to be a garden hybrid, and 

 is very handsome and ornamental. It is of robust habit^ 

 producing stout, broad, oblong, dark green leaves ; the 

 pitchers are several inches long, slightly spotted, and deep 

 green in colour. 



N. gracilis. — ^A species which has been considered iden^ 

 tical with N. Icevis, but however great the resemblance in. 

 a dried state, the plants appear distinct when living. Tin- 

 fortunately we have not been able to compare the- living 

 flowers. The stem of the plant now under consideratioE. 

 is slender ; the leaves are sessile, and broadly decurrent, 

 forming almost an uninterrupted wing between each leaf;, 

 it tapers to a point, and the pitchers are from three to four 

 inches in length, having two rows of ciliate hairs in front,, 

 and, together with the leaves, are of a deep shining green- 

 Native of Borneo. 



N. gracilis major. — ^This is said to be a variety of the 

 preceding, but we cannot think it bears any relation to- 

 that plant ; it is very handsome, and well deserves 

 general cultivation. The stem is somewhat slender j. 

 leaves broad (not decurrent), and dark green ; the pitoherS' 

 are much larger than in N, gracilis, contracted upwards 

 somewhat a little above the centre, winged -and furnished 

 with ciliate hairs in front ; ground colour dark green,, 

 streaked and blotched with reddish brown. Native of 

 Borneo. 



N. hyhrida. — Leaves oblong, broad, and deep green. It 

 produces pitchers about eight inches in length, winged and 

 ciliated in front, dark green in colour. It is said to be of" 

 garden origin. 



N. liyhrida maculata. — This is also said to be a garden, 

 variety. It resembles the preceding in general appearance, 

 but the pitchers, which are some ten inches long, are 



