[1 Nov., 1897. QUEENSLAND AGRICULTURAL JOURNAL. 369 
Order NEPENTHACEA, 
(THE PITCHER-PLANT FAMILY.) 
NEPENTHES, Linn. 
Table showing the differential characters of the Australian species :— 
Stems long, climbing. Pitchers inflated below the 
middle, without any crest on the anterior ribs; the 
naked portion of costa forming a curl about the 
middle ors : ox o .. WV. Kennedyt. 
Stems short, climbing. Pitchers inflated below the 
middle, the anterior ribs winged with distant coarse 
cilie or weak bristles along their margins; naked 
portion of costa without acurl ... mee .. MM. Bernaysit. 
Stems notclimbing. Pitchers inflated below the middle, 
anterior ribs with a narrow non-crested wing; 
naked portion of costa without acurl ... . WV. Jardinet. 
Stems stout, not climbing. Pitchers enlarging from the 
base upwards, thus forming a wide orifice; the 
anterior ribs with scarcely any wing; naked portion 
of costa without a curl od ox) on) ... WV. Rowane. 
NN. Rowane, Bail. Queensland Agricultural Journal, 1st September, 1897, 
with plate showing pitcher. From specimens to hand from Mr. EF. L. Jardine, 
of Somerset, I am enabled to add the following to the already published 
description :— 
Stems stout, erect, 2 or 8 ft. high, hoary tomentose. Leaves numerous, 
coriaceous, prominently decurrent upon the stem, faleately recurved, tapering 
towards the base into a broad petiole, including this tapering base or broad. 
petiole about 11 in. long, the broad centre about 14 to 24 in. wide; longitudinal 
nerves 6 on each side of costa, the cross-veins wavy but not very prominent ‘ 
from the thickness of the lamina, the naked portion of costa or stalk of 
pitcher somewhat flattened, 7 to 10 in. long, without a curl, straight and cane- 
like. No flowers or fruit yet to hand. 
The two specimens sent by Mr. Jardine as Nepenthes Kennedyi, in the 
box with NW. Rowane, proved to be N. Kennedyi and WN. Bernaysit. With 
these specimens were also, in a separate paper labelled W. Kennedyt, three 
specimens of male inflorescence; but as Mr. Jardine placed the two species 
above mentioned as V. Kennedyi, 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. Bernaysii, of which neither inflorescence is known, and under which species 
a description is here given provisionally :— 
W.? Bernaysii, Bail. Peduncles 4 to 6 in. long, shortly tomentose, 
more or less plainly striate. Raceme 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 2-line diameter. 
