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FLORA AND SYLVA, 



N. sanguinea. — A fine species, but rare in 

 its own country, and very scarce in gardens. 

 Its pitchers are variable, but at their best reach 

 nearly a foot in length, of intense blood- red 

 colour and soft downy texture. They are car- 

 ried upon sessile, leathery leaves, which at their 

 base clasp smooth triangular stems. Found at 

 a height of 2,000 to 3,000 feet upon Mount 

 Ophir, Malacca. A beautiful kind, but of slow 

 growth and difficult increase. 



N. Sedeni. — A cross of uncertain origin, 

 but akin to distillatoria — a probable parent. A 

 robust plant, profuse in small pitchers of light 

 green, which are thickly blotched and spotted 

 with brownish-red. A more highly-coloured 

 form is grown as S. rubra. 



N. stenophy/Ia. — A Bornean species allied to 

 Curtisi,wiih narrow leaves bearing long narrow 

 vessels of 6 or 7 inches, green, with long streaks 

 of ruddy purple ; rim narrow, and lid small. 



N. superba. — A garden hybrid resembling 

 Hookeriana, but with some of the characters of 

 Sedeni. 



N. Tiveyi. — A handsome cross of good 

 growth, with shapely enduring pitchers of dull 

 green, streaked with reddish-brown markings, 

 and a convex rim of brighter tone. Parents, 

 Veitchii and Curtisi-superba. 



N. Veitchii. — A fine species with a marked 

 habit, its leaves appearing right and left of the 

 stem in even ranks. It is a weak-rooted plant, 

 living mainly upon dead trees or branches, and 

 its pitchers entrapping beetles such as frequent 

 rotting timber ; its prevailing colours of dull 

 reddish-brown harmonise strangely with such 

 surroundings. Its pitchers are large, reaching 

 (when wild) a foot in length, roundly narrow- 

 ing to the base, with deep-toothed wings and 

 a broadly rimmed crimson mouth, the ribs of 

 which endin sharpteeth pointing downwards; 

 lid very small. Common in Borneo. A fine 

 plant, but slow in growth and delicate. Several 

 forms of this plant are known, one with a pink 

 rim, and a second in which the vessels are large, 

 and blotched with dark red. 



N. ventricosa. — A newly -imported plant 

 from the Philippines, allied to N. Burkei, but 

 distinct in the strange shape of its pitchers. 

 These are 5 inches long, inflated at the base 

 with a much narrower middle part, widening 

 again to a broad funnel-shaped mouth. Like 

 Burkei, they are smooth and wingless, hard and 



tough in texture, and of a clear pale green with 

 a bright crimson rim, deepening with age to 

 reddish-purple. Awarded a first-class certifi- 

 cate by the Royal Horticultural Society in Oc- 

 tober, 1 90 1 . An interesting and singular plant, 

 with short narrow leaves of leathery texture, 

 and not of difficult culture. 



N. Veillardii. — A rare plant from New 

 Caledonia, and like distillatoria in habit, but 

 easily known by the hoariness of the stemless 

 leaves, bearing also grey or reddish -coloured 

 tendrils. The pitchers are 7 or 8 inches long, 

 hairy like the leaves and stems, and deep red in 

 colour. A plant of stout growth but delicate 

 j under glass ; probably not now in cultivation. 



N. villosa. — A rare kind found only at a 

 heightof severalthousandfeetinthemountains 

 of Borneo, of difficult culture, and perhaps not 

 in cultivation. It is a handsome plant, growing 

 upon the wet ground, and bearinglargepitchers 

 of pale green moreorless marked with crimson, 

 and of a downy texture from minute hairs, 

 which are also found beneath the leaves and 

 within the pitcher. They bear deeply-fringed 

 wings in front, and a very wide ribbed rim 

 around the mouth, prettily shaded with flesh- 

 colour deepening to reddish-pink; lid small and 

 raised high, of a rusty green freely blotched with 

 darker colour. Often confused with Veitchii. 



N. Wardii. — A fine large-pitchered species 

 growing in the Seychelles, but unknown in 

 Europe save in a dry state. 



N. WiUiamsii. — A fine cross between Sedeni 

 and Hookeriana, of very compact habit and one 

 of the smallest plants of the group, but free in 

 pitchers appearing upon every leaf. They are 

 of medium size, heavily blotched with brilliant 

 blood-red,which deepens with age to a uniform 

 intense crimson, extending to the inside of the 

 vessel. 



N. Wittei. — A garden hybrid of minor 

 importance, allied to Curtisi and a second un- 

 known parent. 



N. Wrigleyana. — An American seedling 

 from Hookeriana and Phyl/amphora. A plant of 

 free growth, bearing upon large leaves hand- 

 some pitchers of pale green, with crimson spots 

 and narrow fringed wings. The neck is stout 

 and rounded, with a green ribbed rim ; lid 

 small, covered with glands beneath, and bear- 

 ing a spur at its base. One of the best American 

 i hybrids. B. 



