. The Gardeners' chronicle : a weekly illustrated journal of horticulture and allied subjects. nly roundish depressed in the centre, red-spotted andsmooth, with a short bifid or laciniate spur at theback. The adult pitchers, of which we have two finedried specimens before us, are nearly I foot in length,34 inches wide (but attain as much as 16 inches in lengthby 5 inches in width), subcoriaceous or membranous,purple-spotted, elongate, cylindric, slightly curved,and with two membranous dentate-fimbriate wings ;the moulh is elliptic elongated very oblique, 4 byl\ inches, and surrounded by a broa
. The Gardeners' chronicle : a weekly illustrated journal of horticulture and allied subjects. nly roundish depressed in the centre, red-spotted andsmooth, with a short bifid or laciniate spur at theback. The adult pitchers, of which we have two finedried specimens before us, are nearly I foot in length,34 inches wide (but attain as much as 16 inches in lengthby 5 inches in width), subcoriaceous or membranous,purple-spotted, elongate, cylindric, slightly curved,and with two membranous dentate-fimbriate wings ;the moulh is elliptic elongated very oblique, 4 byl\ inches, and surrounded by a broad (2 inches)everted, closely and finely ribbed margin or peristome;the lid is ovate-oblong (4 by ij inches), smooth,shining on the inner surface, where it is sprinkled withsmall black dots. It will be seen from the illustration that the shapeof the pitchers varies, as is the case in N. Rafllcsiana;the upper pitchers, which swing unsupported in mid-air, are trumpet-shaped, while those which rest on theground ate larger and more distended. The signifi-cance of this will be apparent. M. T. Fig. 144.—nepenthes northiana; young pitcher. small; their pitchers are only 2 inches or so long,but Mr. Curtis has also brought home noble driedspecimens fully a foot in length, tubular, and with abroad plaited frill round the mouth, like a ladyscollar. Although we have seen neither the inflorescencenor the flowers, and are therefore unable to say pre-cisely to which section of the genus as monographedby Sir J. D. Hooker it belongs, yet the materialbefore us, living and dried, is ample to show that wehave to deal with a species of great beauty, and ofwhich Sir Joseph Hooker, coinciding in our opinion,has kindly furnished the subjoined description. In the young living plant the leaves are closely set,coriaceous, oblong-obovate, acute, tapering at thebase into a short broad amplexicaul stalk. Thepitchers, borne as usual on tendril-like extensions ofthe midrib, are 2^ by I inch, greenish-red
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