cultivation from 1882, but Mr. F. W. Moore, to whom we 
are indebted for the specimen figured, is the only grower who 
has really succeeded. He writes :—‘* The Glasnevin plant 
is one of three seedlings which were presented to me from 
Messrs. Veitch’s original importation. Two were given me 
by Messrs. Veitch, and one by Mr. F. W. Burbidge. It is 
the last that now survives. I was advised to treat them hot 
and moist, but they did not grow to my satisfaction, so I 
put my last plant into a cool orchid house, and it imme- 
diately began to grow. It has remained there ever since. — 
The plant grew rather tall, so I determined to try and root 
the head of it, but failed in consequence of trying to force 
it. The old stem gave me a break at the bottom, and this _ 
is the plant I now have. It was two feet high when I cut | 
the pitcher sent to you. My plant has never flowered ; but 
it is still in perfect health, and is forming young pitchers, 
The secret of growing it seems to me to be moisture, 
shade and intermediate temperature. The leaves quickly — 
get discoloured and sick when exposed to the sun.” . 
When reading a paper before the Royal Horticultural C 
Society in 1897 Mr. Harry Veitch exhibited a pitcher of 
N. Rajah, also grown by Mr. Moore. This was presented 
to Kew, and modelled by Mrs. Blackman, for the Museum. 
It is about double the size of the one represented in our 
plate. From the point of attachment to the stem to the 
tip of the lid it measures three feet three inches. 
Descr.—A terrestrial shrub about four feet high, rusty- 
pubescent in nearly all young parts. Stem erect, stout, 
densely leafy. Leaves thick, leathery, oblong or lanceolate, 
including tendril and pitcher, between five and six feet 
long in wild plants, rarely half as much under cultivation. 
Pitchers sometimes having a capacity of two quarts (the one 
figured only about half a pint) about half as wide as long, 
interior wholly glandular; wings fringed. Collar very 
broad, transversely plaited, outer margin lobed, inner 
margin pectinate, Lid as large as the mouth, oval, cordate 
at the base.—W. Borriva Hemstey. 
Fig. 1, & portion of the inner surface of pitcher showing digestive glands; 
2, a portion of the toothed inner margin of the collar showing the pores 
between the teeth leading to immersed honey-glands, with one gland e ed ; 
3, @ portion of the under surface of the lid studded with perigheoiosd hanaye 
glands ; 4, male, and 5, female flowers from a wild specimen :—all enlarged. 
