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74 REMARKABLE FLOWERS. [CHAP. 
the development of leaf is so remarkable we reserved 
a place for them here. With reference to this species 
there has been considerable 
discussion as to whether the 
pitcher or the pitcher-cover 
constituted the true leaf- 
blade, or whether again the 
leaf-blade was not to be found 
in the leafy portion of the 
stalk. It seems, however, to 
be now satisfactorily settled 
that the latter is the case; 
that which appears like a leaf 
zs the leaf, whilst the pitcher 
is merely an enlarged modi- 
fication of a gland at the 
tip of the mid-rib. One 
species (Nepenthes rajah), a 
native of Borneo, has a pitcher 
twelve inches long by six 
broad, and a blade eighteen 
inches long by eight broad. . 
At a recent meeting of the Linnean Society, 
Dr. Maxwell T. Masters brought forward a specimen 
example of a Pitcher-plant (Vepenthes bicalcarata) 
from Borneo, and he read a note thereon from Mr. 
Burbidge. It seems these pitchers are perfect traps 
to creeping insects, by reason of the incurved ridges 
round the throat of the pitcher. To get safely at the 
prisoners, a species of black ant ingeniously perforates 
the stalk, and tunnelling upwards, thus provides an 
inroad and exit to the sumptuous fare of dead and 
