Fig. 4. Nepenthes dubia 2/3 x(BÜNNEMEIJER 938)
11. Nepenthes dubia DANS., spec. nova.
Icon: nostra 4.
Folia mediocria sessilia, lamina lanceolato-spathulata, nervis longitudinalibus utrinque c. 3, basi attenuata 1/3-2/3 caulis amplectente, vagina 0 ; ascidia rosularum et inferiora ignota ; ascidia superiora parva, parte inferiore tubulosa v. leviter ventricosa, supra medium infundibuliformia, costis 2 prominentibus ; peristomio fere horizontali, operculum versus acuto, applanato, 2-4 mm lato, costis 1/2-1/4 mm distantibus, dentibus 0 ; operculo anguste cuneato, facie inferiore plana ; inflorescentia ignota ; indumentum parcum, iuventute tomentum fuscum, denique deciduum.
Stems climbing, slender, the part with adult leaves cylindrical or
slightly angular, 3 to 4 mm thick, the internodes about 3 to 10 cm long.
Rosettes and basal part of the stem unknown. Leaves of the
climbing stems scattered, thin-coriaceous, sessile, lanceolate-spathulate,
mostly 6 to 10 cm long, 1.2 to 1.8 cm broad, acute, attenuate at the base,
clasping the stem for 1/3 or 1/2 without sheath ; nervation indistinct, the
pennate nerves oblique, irregularly reticulate, the longitudinal ones about 3
on both sides, originating from the basal 1/3 part of the midrib, approaching
the margin towards the apex ; tendril once to twice as long as the leaf, the
pitcher-bearing ones with or without curl. Pitchers of the climbing
stems gradually originating from the hanging end of the tendril, incurved
with a 5 to 10 mm wide curve, tubulose or slightly ventricose in the lower
part, 0.8 to 1 cm wide, infundibulate above the middle, 2 to 3 cm wide at the
top, with 2 indistinct ribs ; mouth ovate, acute towards the lid,
.
(BÜNNEMEIJER 938)
Fig. 4. Nepenthes dubia 2/3 x
horizontal or almost so ; peristome flattened, involute at the outer
margin, up to 4 mm broad in front, up to 2 mm broad near the lid, the ribs 1/2
to 1/4 mm apart, the interior margin entire ; inner surface of the pitcher with
numerous small slightly or not deepened glands, about 600-900 on 1 cm2
; lid narrowly cuneate, up to 4 cm long, up to 0.7 cm broad, rounded at
the apex, gradually attenuate towards the base, with numerous small round or
elliptical glands on the underside, spur 3 to 5 mm long, filiform, inserted
close to the lid. Inflorescence &c. unknown. Indumentum very
sparse, a loose rusty tomentum on the stems above the axis a dense, brown,
appressed pubescence on the young pitchers, disappearing later. Colour
of herbarium specimens fallow-dun, here and there blackish. (Description after
the under mentioned specimens.)
SUMATRA. Res. Westcoast: G. Talakmau, 1900 m, 29 V 1917, BÜNNEMEIJER 938, H. B. (0). H. L. B. (0).
N. dubia strongly resembles the striking N. inermis, but the difference is too large to unite these two species. N. inermis, like N. Lowii has only a rudiment of a peristome. N. dubia has a broad and flat one. There are, however, also differences in the other parts: the pitchers are less widely infundibuliform and the lid is not so narrow as in N. inermis. Perhaps N. dubia is a hybrid of N. inermis and another species with normal peristome and in that case N. Bongso could be the other parent species, the more so as the vegetative parts of N. inermis, N. dubia and N. Bongso are very similar, and between the other species of the gymnamphora-group intermediate forms often occur.