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decaying insects contained in the reservoir. The re- 
markable Lemuroid (Zarsius spectrum) likewise visits 
the pitcher-plants for the sake of the entrapped 
insects. These it can easily obtain from the VV. Raf- 
 flesiana, but not so from J. dicalcarata, where the 
sharp spurs severely prick if the animal dares to trifle 
with the urn-lid (“ Science Gossip,” May 1880). Mr. 
Alfred Russell Wallace in his graphic and most in- 
teresting account of seven years’ wandering among the 
islands of the Malay Archipelago, thus refers to the 
presence of these plants on Mount Ophir, Malacca: 
“The height was about 2800 feet. We had been 
told that we should find water, ... but we looked 
about for it in vain, as we were exceedingly thirsty. 
At last we turned to the pitcher-plants, but the water 
contained in the pitchers (about half a pint in each) 
was full of insects and otherwise uninviting. On 
tasting it, however, we found it very palatable, though 
rather warm, and we all quenched our thirst from 
these natural jugs.” 
Inhabiting the tropical portion of the American 
continent, from which so many remarkable and 
beautiful forms of plant-life have been brought to us, 
we have two other forms of Pitchers, the Sarracenia 
and Darlingtonia. In these, however, the pitcher 
is formed of the leaf-stalk, developed into a thin 
blade, the edges of which are united. The true leaf 
is small and forms the cover to these remarkable 
vessels. Fig. 81 is a representation of the Darling- 
tonia californica, or Californian Pitcher-plant. At the 
summit this pitcher is vaulted over, and the entrance 
will be found underneath this vault or hood ; so that 
