wherever it grows. But it attains its full size and best 
development, not down in the swamp, but up on the ledges 
of the cliff of Roraima, and even on the top (about 8000 
feet).”’. : 
In the above notice, Mr. im Thurn: speaks of the red- 
veined pitchers, a character that has not appeared in the 
cultivated plant, but which is most marked in Sir R. 
-Schomburgk’s drawing, where on every pitcher are about 
seven strong broad red longitudinal nerves with defined 
. margins. Also in the same figure the number of perianth 
segments varies from five to six, and they are very un- 
- equal in size and irregular as to insertion. 
The accompanying figure is from a beautiful plant 
which was flowered by Messrs. Veitch in June, 1889. 
The very large leaf outlined at the back, and the analyses 
. of the fruit are from Herbarium specimens; the former 
is of a specimen sent by Mr. im Thurn from the top of' 
Roraima.—J. D. H. 
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* Fig. 1, Apex of pedicel and stamens; 2, stamen; 3, pistil; 4,- transverse 
section of the ovary; 5, ripe capsule; 6, seed; 7, nucleus of the same cut 
vertically ; 8, embryo :—all enlarged. : 
