The natural history of plants, their forms, growth, reproduction, and distribution; . Fig. 22.—Cephalotus follicularis. 132 PLANTS WITH TRAPS AND PITFALLS TO ENSNARE Fig. 23.—Young Nepenthes plants. glandular cells situated on the lining of the pitcher; and the whole process, whereinthey are concerned, corresponds to that which obtains in the pitchers of Nei^enthes,and which will be more thoroughly discussed in the case of these latter plants. The species of the genus Nepenthes, of which we know at the present timethirty-six, are all confined to the tropics. Their area of distributio
The natural history of plants, their forms, growth, reproduction, and distribution; . Fig. 22.—Cephalotus follicularis. 132 PLANTS WITH TRAPS AND PITFALLS TO ENSNARE Fig. 23.—Young Nepenthes plants. glandular cells situated on the lining of the pitcher; and the whole process, whereinthey are concerned, corresponds to that which obtains in the pitchers of Nei^enthes,and which will be more thoroughly discussed in the case of these latter plants. The species of the genus Nepenthes, of which we know at the present timethirty-six, are all confined to the tropics. Their area of distribution extends fromNew Caledonia and New Guinea over tropical Australia to the Seychelles Islandsand Madagascar, and over the Sunda Islands, the Philippines, Ceylon, Bengal, andCochin-China. They only flourish on marshy ground on the margin of smallcollections of water in damp primeval forests. There the seeds germinate inshallow water. The young plants (see fig. 23), which spring from the boggy ground, have their leaves ar-ranged in rosettes just likethose of Sarracenias (see ). They are, too, so nearlyidentical in form with thelatter that anyone seeing ayoung Nepe
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