of this pitcher, causes the prolonged costa and the upper half of 
the blade of the leaf to descend, taking a downward direction ; 
_ nevertheless, as the pitcher enlarges this has always an upward ten- 
dency, and becomes quite erect, from a span toa foot long; in an 
early stage closed by the lid, at which time the curious fringe at 
the mouth, while covered with the lid, is very small, as would 
appear from our young dried specimens ; but as our living speci- 
men possesses only a perfectly formed pitcher, we shall confine 
our present description to that. Its general form is cylindrical, 
nine inches in circumference, somewhat ventricose or unequal- 
sided, rather suddenly tapering below into the prolonged costa: 
it is furnished in front for its whole length with two longitudinal 
membranaceous wings, cut into long, simple, or bi- or tri-fid 
segments ; the uppermost segments the longest and the most 
divided. The su4stance of this pitcher is membranaceous, but 
firm, the colour a pale fulvous-green, blotched with purplish- 
_ brown, and the wings are of that colour: the surface is obscurely 
reticulately veined, and is more or less hairy. The mouth or 
opening is the most extraordinary portion of this pitcher ; it is 
very oblique, its margin formed of a substance distinct in tex- 
ture and colour from the rest of the pitcher, of considerable 
breadth (two inches in the widest portion), of a fleshy nature, 
recurved, orange-purple, beautifully plaited or radiated with ele- 
vated lamellated lines, extending upwards to its narrowest por- 
tion, where the lips of the margin meet, project in a keel-like 
form, closing over that part of the mouth. The apex is termi- 
nated by the /id. This, in its perfect state, stands nearly erect, 
Is ovato-cordate, apiculate, downy, with a keel or crest at the 
base beneath : its whole under side is impresso-punctate, with 
dots which are quite visible to the naked eye. The colour is 
green, margined and spotted with blood-colour. The lower part 
of the mouth is thus alone pervious, and that very much con- 
tracted. In the inside of the pitchers water is naturally col- 
lected, and, as in other species of the genus, no doubt, is a 
great provision of nature for decoying and for the destruction of 
insects. ‘The petioles of the leaves are deeply channelled above. 
Our dried flowering specimen affords a lateral pedunculated 
raceme of downy male flowers. Perianth of four spreading 
obovate sepals. Column of stamens bearing a few branched 
hairs. Anthers six, arranged in a capitate whorl. 
Our Plate Tepresents the young portion of a male plant with flowers (from 
‘oe dried specimens), and a portion of Messrs. Veitch’s cultivated plant, 
with a fully formed pitcher, natural size. 2. Single male flower, magnified. 
