Tas. 6624. 
é PINGUICULA caupata. 
Native of Mexico. 
Nat. Ord. LenTIBULARIER. 
Genus Pinevicuta, Linn. ; (Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. Pl. vol. ii. p. 989.) 
Pinevicuta caudata; sparse glanduloso-puberula, foliis ovali-oblongis obtusis 
sessilibus v. in petiolum brevem angustatis, corolle violaceo-purpuree lobis 
patentibus lateralibus obovatis apive rotundatis inferiore cuneato-obovato apice 
truncato v. retuso angulis rotundatis, calcare decurvo cylindraceo acuto lobo 
inferiore longiore v. breviore. 
P. caudata, Schlecht. in Linnea, 1832, p. 393; Benth. Pl. Hartweg. p. 70. 
A. DC. Prodr, vol. viii. p. 28. 
P: Bakeriana, Sanders in Gard. Chron. New Ser. vol. xv. p. 541, fig. 102. 
To any one unfamiliar with the changes of form which 
some plants undergo in different stages of development, it 
would be difficult to realize the figure here given of the 
fully formed state of P. caudata, to be the same species as 
that figured under the name of P. Bakeriana in the 
** Gardeners’. Chronicle.” The fact is, that as our own 
specimens at Kew show, the leaves of young plants are very 
short, ovate, acute, extremely numerous, recurved, densely 
imbricate, forming a compact hemispherical cushion, and | 
overlap from the centre outwards so closely that their acute ~ 
tips alone are exposed. As the plant grows larger and 
larger, leaves are thrown out from the crown, of an obovate 
form, till at last these attain the size and appearance repre- 
sented in our plate. Singularly enough, the plant flowers 
freely in both stages, but it is only in the last that the 
flowers attain the great dimensions of our figure. 
In the Kew Herbarium there are numerous specimens of 
this species from damp shady woods in Mexico, and these 
display a great variation in size, in the shape of the leaf, 
from obovate to oblong, and from sessile to petiolate ; in the 
MAY Ist, 1882. 
