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Descr. Stem eight feet high, round, below slender and 
somewhat woody ; above, twice as thick, and more herba- 
ceous, branching.’ Buds small, and placed above the axils 
of the leaves, many of them abortive. Leaves entire, chan- 
nelled, undulated, glabrous, scattered, one to one and a 
half foot long, exclusive of the cirrhus but including the 
petiole, along which they are broadly decurrent, and which 
is about three inches long, semiamplexicaul, and decur- 
rent half-way to the next leaf below, veinless, or veins only 
obscurely seen, and not prominent on either side till dry, 
after which, several slender veins and nerves are observed, 
nearly parallel to the middle rib, and reticulated with 
transverse veins: middle rib strong, prominent behind, 
drawn out into a cirrhus from ten to twelve inches long, 
flattened on its upper side, and convolute in the middle, 
enabling the plant to climb, from this point somewhat 
thickened and turned down, having at its extremity an 
erect pitcher, which is wedge-shaped behind when young, 
afterwards in its lower half obscurely conical, above this 
contracted a little, and nearly cylindrical, its mouth oblique, 
with a rounded, regularly and transversely wrinkled edge, 
and a round lid, connected by its posterior margin to the 
highest portion of the oblique mouth, where alone the 
wrinkled edge of the pitcher is interrupted: The outer 
edge of this border is revolute after the lid rises, but before 
this it is erect, and passes within the sides of the lid, which at 
that time are folded down. Diameter of the lid from back 
to front two inches, transversely it is two and a quarter 
mches. Two prominent and curved ribs (between which, 
and also between them and the edges, the lid, otherwise 
flat, is somewhat depressed) run on its upper surface from 
the base towards its anterior edge, and from the point 
of their union at the base, is projected a small awl-shaped 
spur, and along the back of the pitcher a nerve, which be- 
comes less prominent towards the extremity of the cirrhus. 
Along the front of the pitcher are two prominent. ribs, ex- 
tended from the edges of the flattened surface of the cirrhus: 
these are more: prominent than the nerve on the back, and 
more or less completely flatten the pitcher on its ante- 
rior surface, which is the heel of the wedge in its young 
state. Lid at first closed, afterwards raised to about a right 
angle with the oblique opening of the pitcher, and never 
again closed... Before the opening of the lid, rather more 
than a drachm of limpid fluid was formed within each of 
the largest pitchers on our Specimen. This had a subacid 
taste 
