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FLORA AND SYLVA. 



long, of yellow-green, shaded light red and 

 streaked with dark crimson ; the hairy wings 

 are prominent, and the rim yellowish, darken- 

 ing with age. 



N. Bernaysii. — -One of the rare Queensland 

 species, not yet seen in this country. A short 

 climbing plant bearing long narrow pitchers. 



N. bicalcarata. — One of the finest and 

 most distinct kinds, bearing broad bag-shaped 

 pitchers of rich russet-red, clothed when young 

 with ruddy down, and later developing toothed 

 wings. It is a strong grower with large deep- 

 green leaves, broad and glossv ; as a wild plant 

 in the marshes of Borneo it climbs to a height 

 of 30 feet, with leaves nearly a yard long. Its 

 great features are the two fang-like spurs pro- 

 jecting downwards from the base of the lid. 



N. Burkei. — A variable species from the 

 Philippines, bearing smooth wingless pitchers 

 8 inches long, and of peculiar shape, narrowing 

 in the middle. They are dark green, blotched 

 with dusky red, growing deeper at the mouth, 

 and of hard leathery texture lasting well upon 

 the plant. Two distinct forms of this plant are 

 excel/ens, with much larger and more uniform 

 pitchers, more richly coloured with reddish- 

 brown, deepening to the chestnut - shaded 

 throat and mouth and the finely-spotted and 

 veined lid. It is a bold form brought from 

 New Guinea, handsome, and of good growth, 

 but less free than the type. B. prolijica is dis- 

 tinct and pretty, its pitchers, smaller than in 

 the parent but borne in great profusion, are of 

 pale green flaked and blotched with light red, 

 deepening towards the throat. 



N. chelsoni. — A fine cross between Domi- 

 nlana and Hooker iana, showing an intermediate 

 habit. It is of free growth, bearing broad 

 pouch-like pitchers of rounded form with pro- 

 minent wings, their colour greenish, yellow- 

 marbled, and spotted with crimson. 



N. chelsoni excellens. — A further cross be- 

 tween Rajflesiana and f ^t'/iWZA.producing a plant 

 with massive rounded pitchers, broad, and 

 much marked with crimson-purple ; rim broad 

 and richly coloured, wings prominent and 

 stoutly fringed. 



N. cincta. — A rare species, imported with 

 Northiana from North Borneo, and at first 

 considered a natural cross. It carries finely- 

 coloured pitchers 9 inches long, tubular and : 

 straight, slightly enlarged in the middle and j 



rounded at the base ; they are green, flushed 

 crimson, and with irregular blotchings of 

 claret -red. The narrow rim is oblique and 

 somewhat angular, waved, and strongly ribbed, 

 with a narrow white band just below, while 

 the lid arches closely over the mouth of the 

 tube. Leaves long, leathery, and dark green, 

 with an angular midrib beneath. 



N. coccinea. — -An American hybrid not 

 often seen in this country. Its medium-sized 

 pitchers are flask-shaped, of crimson spotted 

 sparingly with yellow and with a dark ribbed 

 rim of blackish-red ; wings deeply fringed and 

 a lid smaller than the mouth. A short-jointed 

 plant of good growth and profuse in pitchers, 

 which are enduring. 



N. compacta. — A distinct plant of dwarf 

 growth and bearing an abundance of broad 

 rounded pitchers about 5 inches deep, of dark 

 red or reddish-purple, sometimes shaded with 

 violet, and marbled with creamy-white reach- 

 ing to the mouth; lid spotted. A basket plant 

 of fine habit. 



N. Courti. — Another of Veitch's fine 

 crosses, very free in its flask-shaped pitchers of 

 dull greyish-green, blotched and clouded with 

 crimson, enlarged towards the base, and evenly 

 winged throughout. Mouth finely ribbed,with 

 a small lip of convex form bearing a single spur 

 behind. A robust and handsome variety. 



N. Curtisii. — A Bornean species with large 

 pitchers reaching 8 inches, and slightly trum- 

 pet-shaped. They are of dull green, thickly 

 mottled with purple, the throat glossy, and the 

 lid finely streaked. A good kind continually in 

 beauty. In this species there is much variation 

 in the sexes, the female plant being known 

 as C. superba, and bearing pitchers of similar 

 shape but finer and more brilliant. Their 

 ground colour of yellow-green is almost hidden 

 by blotches of rich red, shading to intense 

 crimson upon the broad rim ; lid broad and far 

 more heavily spotted with red. 



N. cylindrica. — A garden cross between 

 Veitchii and hirsuta glabrescens^nd a useful and 

 free-growing plant. Its finely-shaped pitchers 

 are borne upon large spreading leaves, and 

 are long and narrow (sometimes more than 

 8 inches), slightly enlarged below the middle, 

 and pale green in colour with a few crimson 

 spots and a narrow frill about the mouth. 



N. Dicksoniana. — A fine hybrid of robust 



