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30'; 



Kon't/ii/d (ietit(xta of South Africa, which aUaiiis 

 a hci<;ht of six- feet, with leaves similar to the 

 sundew in character. So efficient are these leaves 

 in catching; Hies that the lioers \ya\v^ up branches 

 in their rooms as llx-traps. 



The smallest insect-eatin<4 plant is probabl\- 

 the blaclclerwort r^7/7V7/'/^/;7> vitl- 

 gixris ), a rootless water plant w ith 

 minute bladders on small thread- 

 like lea\es. The bladders onl\- 

 o()en inwards, so that when an 

 insect pushes a<jainst the opening" 

 or \al\e it casil)- enters, and can- 

 not j^^ct out ap^ain. The bladder 

 contains water, but the insect 

 quickK' consumes the ox\'<^en in 

 it, and conscquenth' dies, and 

 when dccaj'cd its substance is i'itchkk ok m:- 



PKXTHHS \<\V- 



absorbecl b\- inlands on the inner 1 u-siana. 

 surface of the bladder. 



Perhaps the most attractive of the group of 

 plants we are considcrintj^ is the pitcher plant 

 or Nepenthes. It c^rows common!}' in Borneo 

 and Ceylon. The pitcher is a direct develop- 



