beautifully fringed with hairs. The inside, which contains 

 a watery fluid and entraps many insects, especially ants, 

 is clouded with dark purple. The mouth is contracted, 

 horse-shoe-shaped, annulated and crested with several deep, 

 sharp, vertical annuli, of a dark purple colour, smallest 

 near the base of the lid, three of them, which are opposite 

 the wings, larger than the adjoining ones ; all of them form- 

 ing a sickle-shaped point within the mouth. Lid plano- 

 convex, green without and a little hairy, within clouded 

 with purple, marked with broad veins which are somewhat 

 dichotomous, the margin scalloped ; — at first it closes the 

 mouth of the ascidium, and afterwards becomes nearly 

 erect. Scape one to nearly two feet high, erect, terete, 

 downy, bearing a compound, spicate raceme at the extre- 

 mity, and one or two subulate bracteae in its lower half. 

 Branches very short, downy. Calyx small, hairy, greenish- 

 white, deeply five-cleft, the segments ovate, erecto-patent, 

 obtuse, the points thickened : the base or tube within has a 

 thickened green disk, covered with small papillae, at the 

 margin of which the twelve stamens, alternately shorter, 

 are inserted: all shorter than the calyx segments; those 

 opposite the calyx-segments the longest. Filaments subu- 

 late, purplish rose-coloured, glabrous. Anthers two-celled, 

 didymous, subglobose, in part concealed by a large fungose, 

 globose excrescence (the connectivum) ; those of the longer 

 filaments rather the largest. Pollen globose. Pistils six, 

 small, arranged in a circle around a small tuft of hairs, 

 purplish. Germen ovate, glabrous, tapering into a some- 

 what recurved style : Stigma obtuse. (e Ovule erect, almost 

 as large as the cell, and containing within the membrana- 

 ceous testa a little, pendulous sack, of the same size as the 

 cavity of the testa." (Br.) 



For our first knowledge of this rare and highly curious 

 plant, having the ascidia or appendages of the famous 

 Nepenthes, but belonging to the Natural Order Rosace^, 

 we are indebted to M. Labillardiere, who discovered it in 

 " Leuwin's Land," and figured and described it in his 

 te Specimen of the Plants of New Holland." Mr. Browne, 

 during his voyage with Capt. Flinders detected it on 

 nearly the same line of coast, namely, " in the neighbour- 

 hood of King George's Sound, especially near the shores of 

 Princess Royal Harbour, in 35° S. lat. and 118° E. long.; 

 beginning to flower about the end of December." From 

 specimens there gathered, the species has been illustrated 



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