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(fig. 32) and N. Bemaysii. With these specimens were also, in 

 a separate paper labelled N. Kenncclyi, three specimens of male 

 inflorescence ; but as Mr. Jardine placed the two species above 

 mentioned as N. Kenncclyi, I cannot say to which they may belong. 

 The peduncles of these are most certainly not attached to the 

 stem, like I found those of the female inflorescence of that 

 species, and described in Syn. Ql. Flora ; and up to the present 

 no male inflorescence has been described. I am inclined to 

 consider those now forwarded by Mr. Jardine as belonging to 

 N. Bemaysii, of which neither inflorescence is known, and 

 under which species a description is here given provisionally : — 



N. ? Bemaysii, Bail. Fig. 33. — Peduncles 4 to 6 in. long, 

 shortly tomentose, more or less plainly striate. Eaceme 5 to 

 7^ in. long, flowers (male) rather crowded. Pedicels slender, 

 5 lines long, tomentose. Perianth with 4 reflexed oblong- 

 cuneate segments, about half as long as the pedicels, glabrous 

 and dark-coloured on the face, tomentose on the back. Staminal 

 column about as long as the segments ; head of anthers about 

 J-line diameter. 



N. Jarclinei, Bail. (n. sp.) (After Frank L, Jardine.) 

 Fig. 34. — Stems several, rather stout, arising from a hard knotty 

 rhizome, 2 to 3 or more feet high ; not climbing, sometimes 

 branched, clothed with leaves mostly bearing pitchers ; the 

 young growth more or less clothed with soft hairs, the shorter 

 ones of which are usually stellate, the longer ones frequently 

 simple. Leaves decurrent and slightly stem-clasping ; petiole 

 2 in. long winged ; lamina 8 in. long and from 2 to nearly 3 in. 

 broad in the middle, tapering towards each end ; midrib at 

 first purplish-red, longitudinal nerves on each side of midrib 

 usually 6 ; the narrow portion or stalk of pitcher about 6 in., 

 without the loop of N. Kenncclyi, F. v. M. ; pitcher 5 to 7 in. 

 long, If in. diameter near the top, enlarging in the lower half to 

 about 2^ in., with numerous prominent longitudinal nerves and 

 reticulations ; anterior ribs with narrow red wings ; orifice wide 

 and arising towards the spur ; peristome narrow, about 1 line 

 broad, with numerous transverse veins ; posterior spur recurved ; 

 operculum elliptical, about 2 in. long, with numerous various- 

 sized circular glands on the inner surface ; inside of pitcher 

 more or less spotted or stained purplish-red. Bacemes dense, 

 4 to 8 in. long in the males, but shorter in the female racemes ; 



