NEPENTHES. 
GYNANDRIA TETRANDRIA. 
GENERIC CHARACTER. 
Calyx divided into four roundish leaves. 
Corolla none. 
Seed-vessel oblong, truncated, divided into four chambers 
by as many valves, and containing a considerable num- 
ber of sharp-pointed seeds. 
SPECIFIC CHARACTER. 
Nepenthes distielatoria. Spec. Plant. Linn. 3d ed. p. 1354. 
Bandara zeylanica, in extreme 
foliorum folliculum penicillifor- 
mem expansum habens. Burnt. 
Zeyl. 42. t. I?. 
With an expanded little bag of a 
long shape at the end of each 
leaf. 
Urticaria vegetabilis zeylanen* 
sium. Pluk. 
Planta mirabilis distillatoria. Grim. 
E. N. C. An. 1 . Dec. 2. p. 363. 
f. 363. 
Nepenthes. ..... Pluk. Aim. 394.237 .f.3. Rumph. 
Ami. 5. p. 121. t. 59 . f. 2. 
The nepenthes may justly be classed among the 
most singular productions of the vegetable world. 
