In warm weather the lobes are fully expanded, and at this 

 time particularly are highly irritable, and if a fly or other in- 

 fe£t light upon them they fuddenly clofe together, and the 

 poor animal is entrapped. The fcape rifes in the centre of the 

 leaves, is round, from fix inches to a foot and half high, bear- 

 ing at the top a corymb of flowers on long peduncles, under 

 each of which is an ovate acuminate bract e. Calyx perfiftent, 

 of five lanceolate leaves. Corolla five-petaled, white, flreaked : 

 petals oblong-obcordate, fomewhat puckered at the tip, do not 

 fall off but roll up from the point to the bafe and remain. 

 Stamens about twenty, never fo few as ten : filaments not half 

 the length of the petal, infertcd into the edge of the recep- 

 tacle. Germcn fuperior, hemifpherical : ftyle ere6l, fhorter 

 than the filaments j ftigma globular, hollowed, hairy. Capfule 

 one-celled, flat at the top. Seeds black, fhining, obovate, 

 very acute at the lower end, half buried in the cavities of 

 the honeycombed receptacle. 



Great numbers of this very fingular plant have been culti- 

 vated both this and the latt year by Mr. Salisbury, at the 

 Botanic Garden, .Brompton, where our drawing was taken. 

 Many of thefe have flowered and produced ripe feeds in an 

 airy ftove. They fhould be planted in bog earth mixed with 

 white fand, and the pot kept in a pan of water. 



The plant may be kept very well in a window of a room 

 that has a warm afpeft if covered with a glafs cylinder open at 

 top, and has been known to flourifh better with this treatment 

 than when nurfed in a ftove. 



Introduced to the Kew Garden by Mr. William Youn*g» 

 in 1768. 



