Nepenthes is native of Jowai in marshy habitat.I took a basketful of live plants to Coromandel where Roxburgh worked.Plant is cultivated by Udai Pradhan in Kalimpong and I displayed live specimen in Teen Murti House in 1986.Udai an Orchid specialist also maintains Dionaea and also Ginkgo biloba.Do you know I wrote on Plants of Garo hills/-DCS Raju FLS followed Hooker wrote many papers -see Google Scholar and also Google Docs for work on Linnarus as visible in google circles-search Robert Kyd images or Roxburgh monument to keep in touch.Every student of Botany must visit Gangtok where best library on Himalayas and over 50000 sp of India can be consulted.Dr Paramjit Singh present Director joined in 1990. DCSRAJU is Head of CNH, and JD BSI -celebrated Bicentenary of KYD in 1993. On Thursday, 27 October 2011 13:47:08 UTC+5:30, raju wrote: > > Dear Friends, > > Nepenthes khasiana Hook.f. Prodr. (DC.) 17: 102. 1873. > > Family: Nepenthaceae > > Photographed this endemic pitcher plant from a private garden at Assam. > > Regards > > -- > *Raju Das > Nature's Foster* >
