12 PROCEEDINf4S OF THE 



Matilda Pertz, and Miss Edith Rebecca Saunders were admitted 

 Eellows. 



Mr. Edward Eussell Burdon, B.A., Miss Kate Marion Hall, 

 and Mr. Frederick William Lucas were proposed as Fellows. 



Marian, Lady Busk, Miss Lilian Jane Clarke, Mr. Reginald 

 Innes Pocock, F.Z.S., and Mr. William Wise were elected 

 Fellows. 



The xluditors for the Society's Financial Tear ending 30th April 

 were nominated, and elected by show of hands, as follows : — 



For the Council, Mr. H. W. Monckton and Mr. Gr. S. Saunders ; 

 for the Fellows, Mr. H. Druce and Mr. H. G-roves. 



Mr. W. BoTTi]N^G Hemsley, F.R.S., F.L.S., exhibited a number 

 of specimens and drawings of pitchers of Nepenthes, supplemented 

 by slides, prepared by Mr. L. Farmar, to illustrate the various 

 types of pitchers and their glandular sj^stems. Glands are 

 present on almost all parts of pitcher-plants, from the stems 

 to the flowers, and they vary very much in structure, but there 

 are only two classes, namely attractive and digestive. The former 

 are generally distributed over the plant except the inside of the 

 pitcher, where the digestive glands alone occur. The pitcher is an 

 appendage of the leaf, borne on a prolongation of the midrib, 

 which often acts as a tendril ; it consists of a tubular or inflated 

 body with two interior longitudinal ribs, which often develop into 

 elegant fringed wings, and one posterior rib, uhich usually termi- 

 nates in a spur, running out just below the hinge of the lid or 

 operculum. The mouth of the pitcher is surrounded by a more 

 or less elaborately constructed collar or peristome. 



A new species. Nepenthes MacfarJanei, differs from all other 

 known species, except N. Lowii, in the underside of the lip being 

 thickly beset with stiff bristles, interspersed with honey-glands. 

 The function of the bristles in this position is not obvious ; but 

 Avould seem to be preventative to flying insects, though ants might 

 creep amongst them and drink the honey. The pitchers of 

 N. Macfarlanei, as probably of all other species, are of two kinds, 

 apart from those on the young seedlings. In some, perhaps only 

 the intermediate ones, the whole of the inner surface is covered 

 with digestive glands and the antei'ior ribs are not winged ; in 

 others, the upper part of the inner surface is perfectly smooth, 

 forming what is termed the conductive zone to the glandular 

 or retentive zone ; the anterior I'ibs are developed into fringed 

 wings, and the collar has an upward elongation where the lid is 

 attached. The honey-glands on the underside of the lip are very 

 prominent, oval or circular in outline, surrounded by a raised rim 

 and from -^-^ to yV of an inch in diameter. The digestive glands 

 are gradually smaller from the base upwards, and vary from about 

 2000 to 5000 to the square inch. These glands are many-celled, 

 ovoid or spherical in shape, and, in consequence of the unequal 



