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FLORA AND SYLVA. 



different in growth and detail. Nepen- 

 thes Sir W. T. T his elton- Dyer is a plant 

 of free and rapid growth, first shown 

 before the Royal Horticultural Society 

 in August 1900, when it gained a first- 

 class certificate. Its pitchers are very 

 large, measuring fully 14 inches from 

 the base to the tip of the lid, broad in 

 proportion, and richly blotched with 

 purplish-brown on a green ground. The 

 broad rim is waved and finely ribbed, 

 showing within it paler rings circling 

 the mouth ; the wings are of uniform 

 width, running the length of the pitcher 

 and fringed with brownish hairs; the lid 

 is held nearly erect upon a long hump- 

 like process, bears a long spur behind, 

 and is finely spotted upon both faces. As 

 a plant of good growth and constitution 

 and for size and beauty of pitcher it is 

 one of the finest seedlings yet raised. 



The second seedling is N .picturata^ 

 a plant of slower growth, which is not 

 yet upon the market, but of which, 

 through the courtesy of Messrs. Veitch, 

 we are able to give a fine engraving. Its 

 leaves and pitchers are tough and lea- 

 thery, lasting in beauty for many months 

 upon the plant. Though the urns are 

 less in size, being 10 inches long and 

 4 inches wide at the mouth, they are of 

 fine rounded shape, gently tapering to- 

 wards the base, and striped with crimson 

 upon green. The wings are bold and 

 of uniform width, fringed with long 

 hairs, while, as seen in our engraving, 

 the pitcher closely hugs its leaf-stalk. 

 The broad rim is rounded andreflexed, 

 waved at the edges and deeply ribbed, 

 conspicuous also from its colouring of 

 rich mahogany red. The lid, finely 



veined and streaked, is poised, like that 

 of its companion plant, upon a long 

 rising process, but instead of standing 

 nearly erect it overhangs the mouth of 

 the pitcher. 



The following wild kinds and their 

 crosses are admitted by botanists, but 

 are not all of them in cultivation : — 



Nepenthes albo-marginata. — A dwarf kind 

 growing on rocks upon the sea-shore near 

 river-mouths in Borneo and Malacca : a deli- 

 cate grower bearing rounded pitchers swollen 

 at the base, coloured light green below and 

 reddish above, with a white ring just below 

 the mouth ; leaves 9 to 1 2 inches long, narrow, 

 and slightly hairy. 



N. amabilh. — A hybrid between Hookeri- 

 ana and Rajjlesiana, and rather like the first- 

 named. A plant of good habit,freely producing 

 urns mottled with dark crimson. 



N.Amesiana. — -A fine hybrid between Raf- 

 jiesiana and Hoofcen'ana, bearing green pitchers 

 prettily marked with red. 



N. ampullaria. — A distinct species from 

 Borneo, in which the lower leaves give place 

 to a dense cluster of small ovate pitchers of pale 

 green, 2 to 3 inches long, with a very small lid. 

 An old plant in gardens, free-growing, and of 

 easy culture. Two varieties of this plant are 

 j picta,which bears pitchers streaked and spotted 

 with reddish-brown ; and vittata major , a form 

 with flask -shaped winged pitchers, mottled 

 with dull reddish blotches. 



N. angustifolta. — A species with narrow, 

 stalkless, stem-clasping leaves, the upper ones 

 bearing long tendrils. Small urns of 2 inches, 

 flask-shaped with a long neck, narrow fringed 

 wings, and green spotted with red. Sarawak. 



N. atro-sanguinea. — A fine hybrid of uncer- 

 tain origin, remarkable for its highly-coloured 

 pitchers borne freely upon even small plants. 

 They are of reddish-crimson, slightly spotted 

 with yellowish-green, round,widening towards 

 a pointed base, with broad fringed wings ; the 

 flat, closely-ridged rim is coloured with bright 

 red and deep purple. 



N. Balfouriana. — A fine seedling raised by 

 Messrs. Veitch from Mastersiana and mixta, 

 themselves hybrid plants. Pitchers 7 to 9 inches 



