the leaf-stalk, solitary, much curved upwards. Tube of the 
perianth pitcher-shaped, and curved like a syphon, the lower 
half much inflated, the upper narrow below, gradually 
widening upwards, of a dingy brownish-green colour; 
coarsely nerved and reticulated, the mouth with its under- 
side truncated, and waved, scarcely forming a lip, the upper 
portion expands into a large, rich, blackish-brown coloured, 
broadly cordate lip, of which the apex is suddenly atten- 
uated into a slender variously twisted tail, in our specimens 
a foot and a half long. 
