January of this year. The pitcher itself was kindly sent ” 
by Mr. Veitch for figuring. : 
Desor. A tall climber ; stem stout; young parts petioles — 
and inflorescence finely pubescent. Leaves long-petioled, — 
linear-oblong, obtuse, six to eight inches long by two to | 
four broad, -thinly coriaceous, pale green, midrib yellow — 
above, apex rounded, base acute narrowed into a stout — 
petiole three to six inches long, and sheathing at the 
very base; cirrhus six to eight inches long, slender, yel- 
lowish mottled and streaked with red-brown. Pitcher in 
its most perfect form eight to ten inches long by two — 
broad, nearly cylindric but narrowed towards the base, — 
yellow-green mottled and marbled with red-brown ; mouth 
ovate, produced upwards into a beak, with a spine at the — 
back; peristome half an inch broad, very finely striated, — 
brown, denticulate on the margin ; operculum orbicular- | 
ovate, acute, margins waved, midrib with a long — 
spine on the under surface underneath the tip, and a short — 
rounded vertical lamella at the base ; wings continuous — 
from the top to near the base of the pitcher, one-fourth of 
an inch broad, margined with rather distant red soft sete 
as long as the wing is broad ; pitcher, from lower leaves are — 
more trumpet-shaped with narrow win gsornone. Pedun-— 
cle of male fl. four to six inches long, pubescent, green, a8 
thick as a thin quill. Male raceme eight to ten inches — 
long, unbranched, lax-fid., erect; rachis rather slender, — 
green; bracts minute; pedicels an inch long, solitary or 
1n pairs, slender, pubescent. Male flowers half an inch in ~ 
diameter, white ; sepals elliptic, obtuse, reflexed, pubescent — 
without, glabrous and glandular within, Staminal column — 
nearly as long as the segments of the perianth; anthers — 
tebe oblong, uniseriate in a depressed 
TE Gy BRN ee error ea reas eee 
Fig. 1, Flower bud; 2, flower :—both enlarged. 
