the pitcher the hairs converge, and the insects, which are at 
first guided downwards by the direction of these hairs, finally 
become entangled by their converging points, and struggling 
to escape, are killed by mutual pressure or confinement, or 
perhaps by drowning in the putrid mass. 
In a younger state than that described above the leaves 
are singular objects, from the tessellated dark-green markings 
on the polished upper part of the pitcher, and the pendu- 
lous lobe with two diverging flaps, that hangs down from 
its aperture; most likely this singular flap plays an impor- 
io part, as an insect trap, or decoy, in the economy of the 
plant. 
Descr. Rootstalk horizontal. Leaves tufted, ten to twenty- 
four inches high, spirally twisted above, forming long 
narrow curved conical pitchers, one to one and a half 
inches diameter at the top below the mouth, the summit of _ 
which is inflated and turned over, leaving a very narrow 
curved aperture directed upwards. The surface of the pitcher 
is veined ; a narrow wing runs down its ventral surface, and 
another along the crest of the top, whilst a bifid, dull-red, 
pendulous appendage, with oblong obtuse lobes, hangs down 
in front of the aperture; these lobes divaricate in young 
leaves, but are pendulous in old ones. Scape strict, erect, 
six to eighteen inches high when in _ flower, clothed 
with linear-oblong, obtuse, erect, concave, green, half-am- 
plexicaul bracts. Flower solitary, pendulous, three inches 
diameter. Sepals 5, linear-oblong, spreading, concave, pale 
green. Petals much shorter than the sepals, converging, one 
to one and a quarter inches long, yellow-green, with dark 
red-brown broad veins, linear-oblong, concave, contracted 
above the middle, and again dilated into a smaller terminal, 
obtusely concave appendage. Sfamens 1-seriate, numerous, 
hypogynous; filaments short, anthers linear-oblong. Ovary 
subcylindric below, dilated into a broad orbicular 5-lobed 
top, which is deeply depressed in the centre, 5-celled ; style 
stout, short, in the centre of the depression ; stigmas 4, ra- 
diating, stout, tips papillose; ovules very many and minute, 
on large axile spongy 2-lobed placentas. Seeds obovate- 
clavate; testa membranous, with squarrose sete; albumen 
granular and floury; embryo small basal, cotyledons very 
short, radicle cylindrie.—J. D. H. 
Fig. 1, Petal; 2, stamen and pistil; 3, transverse section of ovary :—all 
magnified. 
