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profusely streaked with reddish purple upon a dark green 

 ground. A very handsome plant. 



N. Hoolcerimia. — This is a magnificent species, with large 

 broad oblong leaves, which are thick and leathery in 

 texture, dark green on the upper side, paler below. The 

 pitchers in the young plants are broadest at the base, 

 measuring some four inches in length, and two inches in 

 diameter ; the edge of the mouth is rolled inwards, and 

 ornamented with an annular disc ; lid much smaller than 

 the mouth. The front is ornamented with broad wings, 

 which are ciliate at the edges. As the plants increase in 

 height and age, the pitchers assume a totally different 

 ' shape, they become narrow at the base, and lose the broad 

 wings which ornament them in a young state ; the portion 

 of the mid-rib which supports them is attached to the base 

 of the pitcher, in front when young, but in the second 

 state it is completely reversed, and its attachment is 

 behind. What is the cause of this we cannot say, the 

 change is, however, not sudden. We have had plants with 

 pitchers of both forms upon them at the same time, and 

 also pitchers exactly intermediate, and these intermediate 

 ones always between the extreme forms. The pitchers 

 in both stages are dark green, profusely streaked and 

 blotched with dark red, rendering it very attractive and 

 interesting. Native of Sarawak'. 



N. intermedia. — A hybrid from JV. Bafflesiana; the 

 pitchers are sofnewhat similar in shape with those of that 

 species, they are, however, much longer and less spotted. 

 Garden hybrid. 



N. Icevis. — ^A very elegant small-growing plant, very 

 much resembling the previously named JV. gracilis. . It 

 is, however, more robust in habit ; its leaves are not 

 deourrent as in that species, but merely sessile, they are 



