pitcher, having a remarkably inflated yellow upper part to the 

 tube, while the limb is quite green with a white edge, the very 

 contracted part of the tube is quite filiform. It has flowered 

 in June of the present year, 1864. 



Descr. Bulb subrotund, as large as a good-sized hyacinth or 

 onion, tunicated. Leaves two, a span and more long (in the 

 present instance on a different bulb from the scape), elliptic- 

 oblong, shortly but sharply acuminated, rather thick and carnose, 

 faintly striated, tapering rather suddenly below into a semiterete 

 petiole about four inches long. Scape fifteen inches long, sub- 

 terete, bearing at the summit a large umbel of drooping flowers. 

 Pedicels If— 2 inches long. Perianth with its base incorporated 

 with the cordiform, three-lobed, three-celled ovary, then for about 

 an inch it is contracted into a tube so narrow and green as to 

 resemble a pedicel, thence it suddenly expands into a very large 

 inflated broad-ovate portion of the tube with six shallow furrows, 

 while the mouth is spreading, six-lobed, full green, white at the 

 margins of the lobes. Stamens six, arising from a short, cup- 

 shaped, six-toothed membrane, which lines the base of the inflated 

 portion of the tube. Filaments long, exserted, nearly equal. Style 

 very long, filiform, nearly equalling the stamens in length. Stigma 

 clavate, subtrifid. 



Fig. 1. Flower laid open. 2. Stigma. 3. Transverse section of the ovary :— 

 magnified. 



