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European traveller in Madagascar, under the name of " Amrama- 

 tica." This Nepenthes was afterwards neglected or overlooked 



Fig. 45.— Nepenthes Lowii. 

 (From Transactions of Linnean Society.) 



by botanists for 186 years, till it came to the knowledge of Poiret, 

 who published it in 1797 in Lamarck's Encyclopaedia as Nepenthes 

 madagascariensis. It is worthy of remark that this, the first 

 species to become known, was one of the latest to be introduced 



