. Cyclopedia of American horticulture, comprising suggestions for cultivation of horticultural plants, descriptions of the species of fruits, vegetables, flowers, and ornamental plants sold in the United States and Canada, together with geographical and biographical sketches. Gardening. 1472. Five distinct types of Nepenthes. Beginning from the top they are : N. villosa, Lowil, Ifojati, Rafflesiana, viir. Hookeriana and Rafflesiana. The first three helong to the famous Kina Balou group. The fourth is the parent of more hybrids than any other kind. NEPENTHES large as the mouth and horizontal. C


. Cyclopedia of American horticulture, comprising suggestions for cultivation of horticultural plants, descriptions of the species of fruits, vegetables, flowers, and ornamental plants sold in the United States and Canada, together with geographical and biographical sketches. Gardening. 1472. Five distinct types of Nepenthes. Beginning from the top they are : N. villosa, Lowil, Ifojati, Rafflesiana, viir. Hookeriana and Rafflesiana. The first three helong to the famous Kina Balou group. The fourth is the parent of more hybrids than any other kind. NEPENTHES large as the mouth and horizontal. Ceylon. 4:1. 11: 1017. Not 2798. which is iY. Khasiana. N. Zeylayiica, Rafln., is referred by Index Kewensis to N. distillatoria. N. Zeylanica, var. rubra, Hort., is an old garden name which Veitch in Ill, 2:521 refers to iY. liirsuta, var. glabrescens. An abnormal form of iY. Zeylanica, with 2 midribs and 2 pitchers from the same leaf, is shown in G. C. II, 13:309. 13. Phylldmphora, Willd. Fig. 1471. Lvs. with a long winged petiole, half-clasping or less; nerves numerous longitudinal; tex- ture of young lvs. membranous: pitcher 4-6 in. long, subcylindrical; lid about as large as the mouth and horizontal. Cochin China, Moluccas. —The above description is from Hooker, not from 2629, which, accord- ing to H. J. Veitch (J. H. S. 21:232), is really iY. gracilis. In R. H. 1887, p. 511, is a picture labelled iY. Phyllamphora, which is the same thing as the one in R. H. 1861. p. 173, labelled JY. distillatoria. 14. Khasiana, Hook. Fig. 1471. Not ad- vertised, but probably common in cult, un- der the name of iV. distillatoria. Lvs. ses- sile, clasping, shortly decurrent; nerves pin- nate ; texture firm, but hardly leathery: pitcher 4-7 x iM-3 in., spotted above, larger than those ot JV. distillaf07-ia. Himalayas. B. M. 2798 (erroneously as -Y. distillatoria). In , 2798 the pitcher is cylindrical but narrow at the bottom. J. M. Macfarlane ver- ifies this d


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