opened, and Rumpnivs observes that, in this state, these 
- curiously constructed vessels contain the most water, the 
quantity, of which diminishes after, the: lid: opens, though 
even then it fills again in the course of the night, and 
evaporates in the day ‘but after the lid is quite shrivelled, 
the water entirely disappears. Louretmo, however, has a — 
different opinion, and attributes.the presence of the liquid — 
to the reception and preservation of the night dews by the 
spontaneous opening and shutting of the lid; what is the 
real fact does not seem’to have been as yet positively ascer- _ 
tamed. In our plant, cultivated in the stove, the young 
pitchers, before thé lid-opened, were, Messrs. LoppicEs ob- 
serve, about one-third filled with a sourish tasted water ; 
but after the lids opened, the) water-entirely evaporated. 
Native of Cochinchina, Ceylon, and the Molucca Islands, _ 
growing in moist, mountainous districts, and both Lourzmo 
and Rumputvs remark, that it is very difficult to cultivate; 
the latter once succeeded, but the plant did not thrive well, — 
and produced much smaller pitchers. « , > 
Our Drawing was taken at Messrs. Loppiers and Sons, 
at Hackney, in July, 1825, from the female-plant; the male 
has probably not been as yet imported into this country. 
