Our plants, on their arrival, were soon removed into pots 
according to their sizes, and placed in a pan frequently filled 
with water, having moist moss covering the earth; with this 
treatment, a fine spike of male flowers was thrown up in the 
autumn of the same year. The spike is large and handsome, 
from the rich colour of the copious perianths and the numerous 
yellow heads. The pitchers, or ascidia, are not only remarkable 
in their shape, and from their different form in different parts of 
the plants, but for the richness of the colour and spots, and the 
elongated mouth with the curiously striated margin: the stricC 
terminate internally in teeth, and give a beautififfly pectinated 
appearance to the inner edge. 
We possess fine dried specimens from the East India Company, 
distributed by Dr. Wallich (and our capsule is drawn from one 
of these); and we have other specimens for which we are indebted 
to ]Vtr. Veitch, also received from Singapore, and gathered by 
Mr. Lobb. Dr. Jack well observes “ this is the largest and most 
magnificent species of the genus, being adorned with two kinds 
of urns, both elegant in their forms, and brilliant in their 
colouring.” We cannot, indeed, we think, do better than copy 
the description drawn up from native living specimens, by Dr. 
Jack himself; for we can offer nothing more accurate. 
Descr. The root is fibrous. Stem ascending at the base, 
becoming erect and supporting itself on the neighbouring trees: 
the young parts covered with a deciduous tomentum or down. 
Leaves alternate, petiolate, the lower ones crowded and lanceolate, 
the upper more remote and oblong: the adult foliage is smooth; 
all the leaves are entire, having inconspicuous lateral nerves, and 
the mid-rib elongated into an urn-bearing cirrhus or ten^il. 
The cirrhi of the lower leaves are not twisted, but hang straight 
from the apex; they terminate in larger ventricose and highly- 
coloured ascidia or urns, fringed along the interior angles with 
two membranaceous fimbriate wings, somewEat contracted at 
the mouth, which opens obliquely, rising much higher and 
slightly recurved behind, wdiere the operculum, or lid, is inserted. 
The tendrils of the upper leaves are twisted into one or tw'o 
spires at the middle, and terminate in long ascending funnel- 
shaped urns, flattened anteriorly, but not winged, and gracefully 
turned at the mouth like an antique vase or urn. Both have 
the inverted margin beautifully and delicately striated and varie¬ 
gated with parallel stripes of purple, crimson, and yellow. The 
opercula, or lids, are incumbent, membranaceous, ovate, m^ked 
with two principal longitudinal nerves, and cuspidate behind the 
hinge. The racemes of flowers are at first terminal; but the 
stem begins, after a time, to shoot beyond them and they become 
lateral, and are always opposite to a leaf, which differs from the 
