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PITCHER PLANTS. 
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N. gracilis. —A species wliicli lias been considered identical with N. laivis, 
but however great the resemblance in a dried state, the plants appear distinct 
when living. Unfortunately, we have not been able to compare the living flowers. 
The stem of the plant now under consideration is slender ; the leaves are sessile 
and broadly decurrent, forming almost an uninterrupted way between each leaf ; 
it tapers to a point, and the pitchers are from three to four inches in length, 
having two rows of ciliate hairs in front, and together with the leaves, are of a 
deep shining green. It is a native of Borneo. 
N. gracilis major. —This is said to be a variety of the preceding, but we 
cannot think that it bears any relation to that plant; it is very handsome, and 
well deserves general cultivation. The stem is somewhat slender; the leaves 
broad, not decurrent, and dark green ; the pitchers are much larger than in N. 
gracilis, contracted upwards somewhat a little above the centre, winged, and fur¬ 
nished with ciliate hairs in front, ground colour dark green, streaked and 
blotched with reddish brown. Native of Borneo. 
N. hyhrida. —Leaves oblong, broad, and deep green. It produces pitchers 
about eight inches in length, winged and ciliated in front, dark green in colour. 
It is said to be of garden origin. 
N. hyhrida maculata. —This is also said to be a garden variety. It resembles 
the preceding in general appearance, but the pitchers, which are some ten inches 
long, are profusely streaked with reddish-purple upon a dark-green ground. A 
very handsome plant. 
A^. Hookeriana. —This is a magnificent species, with large, broad, oblong 
leaves, which are thick and leathery in texture, dark green on the upper side, 
paler below. The pitchers in the young plants are broadest at the base, 
measuring some 4 in. in length and 2 in. in diameter ; the edge of the mouth is 
rolled inwards, and ornamented with an annular disk; lid much smaller than the 
mouth. The front is ornamented with broad wings, which are ciliated at the edges. 
As the plants increase in height and age, the pitchers assume a totally different 
shape; they become narrow at the base, and lose the broad wings which orna¬ 
ment them in a young state; the portion of the midrib which supports them is 
attached to the base of the pitchers in front when young, but in the second state 
it is completely reversed, and its attachment is behind. What is the cause of 
this we cannot say ; the change is, however, not sudden. We have had plants 
with pitchers of both forms upon them at the same time, and also pitchers 
exactly intermediate, and the intermediate ones always between the extreme 
forms. The pitchers in both stages are dark green, profusely streaked and 
blotched with dark red, rendering them very attractive and interesting. Native 
of Sarawak. 
N. Icevis. —A very elegant, smaU-growing plant, very much resembling the 
previously named N. gracilis. It is, however, more robust in habit; its leaves 
are not decurrent, but merely sessile; they are not so long, and are more obtuse ; 
