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FLORA AND SYLVA. 



N. Lawrenciana. — A distinct cross between 

 Phyllamphora and Hookeriana, of very dwarf 

 growth and leaves slightly toothed. Its pitchers 

 are rather small, of pale green heavily marked 

 with deep crimson. 



N. Lowii. — The most singular of the entire 

 group, found at a height of several thousand 

 feet in the mountains of Borneo. Its long 

 stems twine round low moss-covered trees, 

 bearing bright green leathery pitchers which 

 are narrowed sharply in the centre and so 

 twisted at right angles as to make them quite 

 unlike other species. The lower half is com- 

 pletely darkened, while the upper broadens to 

 a wide rimless mouth of a glossy brown colour 

 shading to mahogany-red on the inside, and 

 covered with a large hooded lid. The inner 

 glands of the pitcher are more marked than in 

 any other kind. Up till now it has been im- 

 possible to obtain living plants, owing to their 

 strange conditions of life. 



N. madagascariensis. — The earliest known 

 of Pitcher Plants, found by Comerson, the first 

 European to explore Madagascar, but only in- 

 troduced by Veitch in 1879. Its small pitchers 

 are finely formed, flask-shaped, thinly hairy, 

 winged, and bright crimson in colour. The 

 lid is peculiar, being contracted in the middle 

 and shading a circular mouth with narrow rim 

 and cream-coloured throat. It is handsome 

 and distinct but delicate under cultivation, and 

 has twice died out. 



N. Mastersiana. — One of the best of Pitcher 

 Plants raised as a cross between Khasiana and 

 Sanguinea by Messrs. Veitch. It combines great 

 beauty with free growth, being one of the 

 easiest to grow and profuse in its pitcher upon 

 quite small plants, while as many as fifty urns 

 are sometimes developed upon one strong one, 

 lasting in beauty for many months. They are 

 large, reaching at times 10 inches, and are 

 roundly tubular in form, enlarged below the 

 middle, above which they are circled by a 

 ridged contraction ; colour a rich claret-red 

 on the outside, and rosy-cream spotted with 

 red within, upon the throat. The wings are 

 deeply toothed, and the rounded rim of glossy 

 red is narrow and thickly ribbed. This use- 

 ful plant succeeds everywhere, and is grown 

 in dark and lightly coloured forms, while 

 compacta is a variety of dwarf habit and very 

 profuse. 



N. mixta. — A seedling from Curtisi and 

 Northiana ; and a useful kind of free growth 

 and fine colour. Its pitchers reach 9 and 10 

 inches, and are creamy-yellow marked with 

 green and red, shading to deep crimson about 

 the mouth, which is beautifully ribbed. Also 

 grown in a deeper coloured form known as 

 sanguinea, with pitchers of dark reddish-brown 

 with deeper blotches; lip larger, and of shining 

 crimson. 



N. Morganice. — One of the best of Ameri- 

 1 can seedlings; a cross between Hookeriana and 

 Phyllamphora. A fine plant of neat habit and 

 free growth, bearing leaves with rosy midribs 

 and flask-shaped narrow-winged pitchers of 

 6 to 8 inches, finely marked when young in 

 bright red and pale green, but deepening with 

 age to uniform deep red, the pale green of the 

 lid alone remaining unchanged. 



N. Northiana. — A fine plant found upon 

 limestone cliffs in Borneo, where it reaches 

 great size and vigour, but rarely thrives under 

 glass. The pitchers are flask-shaped and nearly 

 a foot in length (wild pitchers reach 1 6 inches) , 

 pale green with large irregular blotches of pur- 

 plish-red, and so tough that the natives make 

 use of them for boiling rice. They bear two 

 ringed wings, but their great feature is the 

 undulating and finely-ribbed rim around the 

 neck, which is closely shaded by a shining lid, 

 finely spotted with black. One of the noblest 

 kinds in the few places where it succeeds. 



N. Obrieniana. — A scarce Bornean kind, 

 with long narrow pitchers, of which the lower 

 part is green and slightly distended, the upper 

 portion tubular and reddish with a green rim. 



N. Outramiana. — A pretty and free-grow- 

 ing cross between Hookeriana and Sedeni, bear- 

 ing flask-shaped pitchers of 5 inches, broadest 

 below and tapering upwards,with narrow hairy 

 wings. Their colour is pale yellow-green, finely 

 blotched and spotted with deep red extending 

 to the mouth and the interior; the rim is deeply 

 ribbed and lined with bands of green and crim- 

 son. Upon some plants the dark spots com- 

 pletely cover the pitcher, which becomes a 

 uniform deep red. 



N. Paradise. — A garden hybrid bearing 

 pitchers of 4 to 5 inches, much contracted 

 towards the middle, and crimson marked with 

 pale green in colour, with a green rim and 

 reddish lid. 



