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CCVIl. NEPENTHES. 



Nepenthes. 

 Seed, entire aud cut vertically (mag.). 



Nepenth£S. 

 Seed. Commencement of germination. 



Nepenthes. 

 Leaf with a "winged petiole, and terminating in an operculate pitcher. 



Nepenthes. 

 Seed. 



Seed. 



Nepenthes. 

 Germination completed. 



Flowers dioecious. Peeiakth single. Stamens united above into an antheri- 

 ferous column. Ovaet several-celled, many-ovuled. Capsule with loculicidal semi- 

 septiferous valves. Seeds scoMform, many^seriate on the 2 faces of the septa ; albumen' 

 fleshy. Embeto straight, axile. — Leaves terminated hy an operculate pitcher. 



Suffiruteseent plants with prostrate or sarmentose stem ; wood without concen- 

 tric zones, but with numerous bundles of tracheae dispersed across the pith and liber, 

 and surrounding the woody axis. Leaves alternate ; petiole winged at the base, the 

 midrib prolonged at the top and curved or spirally twisted, and terminating in a 

 second foliaceous expansion, which is hollowed like an urn (the pitcher), to the 

 opening of which is fitted a sort of lid attached as by a hinge, and capable of being 

 lowered or raised, so that the pitcher is sometimes closed, sometimes open ; it is 

 often found to contain a watery liquid before the raising of the lid. Elowbes 

 dioecious, numerous, in a raceme or sub-terminal panicle, which becomes lateral by 



