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Descriptions of Malayan Plants, 



Such are the characters of this very extraordinary vege- 

 table, which appears to have Uttle affinity with any other, 

 and to be as unique in its mode of fructification as in size. 



It was, as already mentioned, first discovered by Sir 

 Stamford Raffles, in the forests of Passummah Ulu Manna^ 

 and the specimens were forwarded by him to England in 

 1818. In the following year, numerous additional specimens 

 were procured from various parts of the country, and an 

 opportunity afforded for more minute examination, the parti- 

 culars of which are contained in the foregoing short account. 

 The greater part of these specimens have been transmitted 

 to England, together with the observations made on the 

 recent plants. Some time after their despatch, a letter was 

 received from Sir Joseph Banks, acknowledging the receipt 

 of the first specimens, which had all proved to be males, and 

 suggesting the probability of the plant being parasitic, a 

 conjecture which had, during the interim, been ascertained 

 to be correct by investigation on the spot. 



LVI. NEPENTHES. 



NEPENTHES. 



Dicecia Monadelphia, 



Char, Ess, Mas. Calyx 4-partitus. Corolla nulla. Fila- 

 mentum columnare. Anthercc in globum compactae. 



Fem. Calyx et corolla maris. Stigma sessile, 4-lobum. 

 Capsula supera, 4-valvis, 4-locularis, polysperma. Semina 

 linearia, paleacea. 



Char, Gen, Calyx coriaceus, profunde 4-partitus, patens. 



Mas. Filamentum columnare, erectum, cylindricum, calyce 

 paullo brevius. Antherce plures, lutese, biloculares, in globum 

 compactae. 



