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home two more species previously unknown, one of which is named 

 after him, and the other, at first supposed to be a variety of 

 Curtisii, has since received specific rank from Dr. Masters under 

 the name of stenophylla.* In the following year the late David 

 Burke collected plants and seeds of two species in the Philippine 

 Islands, one of which, a very variable but decidedly beautiful one, 

 we are distributing under his name (Fig. 47). Whether these 

 species are the same as those detected by Blanco fifty years earlier 

 is a question yet to be decided. Burke subsequently collected a 

 further supply of seed of Northiana, and amongst the seedlings 

 appeared a supposed hybrid between that species and albo- 

 marginata, and which has received the name of cincta.* And, 

 lastly, in 1890 we received from a correspondent in the Seychelles 

 seeds of Pervillei many of which germinated : this species has 

 since been introduced to Kew through Mr. Griffith, the Adminis- 

 trator of the islands. I am glad to be able to show a living plant 

 of this species, kindly lent by the Director of the Boyal Gardens at 

 Kew. The number of introduced species including cincta and two 

 unnamed ones is thus brought up to twenty- four. Some of them 

 have since disappeared, to be followed doubtless by others from 

 causes that will best be understood when dealing with the 

 hybrids. To these we will now direct our attention. 



The first hybrid Nepenthes was raised by Dominy, and bears 

 his name. It was exhibited by us at the Boyal Horticultural 

 Society's Show at South Kensington in June 1862. Dominy also 

 raised a second hybrid named hybrida. He was followed by Seden, 

 who raised the hybrid that bears his name (Fig. 48), and a 

 second called Chelsonii (Fig. 49) from Hookeriana and Dominii. 

 The work of hybridisation has been continued whenever 

 staminate and pistillate flowers have been simultaneously 

 available, whether of species or hybrids. Some of the results 

 obtained may be ranked in a horticultural sense amongst the 

 finest additions to the genus, notably Mastersiana (Fig. 50) and 

 Dicksoniana. The first-named was obtained in our nursery 

 by Court from Khasiana and sanguinea ; the second is the 

 offspring of Bafflesiana, flowering in the Botanic Garden at 

 Edinburgh, fertilised with the pollen of Veitchii, supplied from 

 our Chelsea nursery. The cross was effected by Mr. Lindsay 

 and the progeny is dedicated to the late Professor Dickson. 



* Gard. Chron., s. 3 VIII. (1890), 240. Id. XXI. (1884), p. 540. 



