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THE AQUAKIUM, JANUARY, 1895. 



■dried leaves sent from Madagascar by a 

 traveler, who was unable to transmit 

 living specimens of the curiosity he had 

 discovered, and it was not until a long 

 period thereafter that this desirable ob- 

 ject could be attained, w^hen several of 

 the living plants were safely brought 

 from the above-mentioned country by 

 Kev. Mr. Ellis, the well-known mis- 

 sionary. The interest of this plant lies 

 in the extraordinary structure of the 

 leaves, which, unlike those of anv other 



plant at the conservatory of the Execu- 

 tive Mansion in Washington, D. C. 



INTEKDEPENDENCE OF 

 MALS AXD PLA^^TS. 



ANT- 



The Gardner'' s Chronicle gives an en- 

 graving of a very remarkable pitcher 

 plant, new to cultivation, but described 

 by Dr. Hooker, a few years ago, from 

 dried specimens collected in Borneo by 

 Low and others. The large bag-shaped 



The Lattice or L^ci: Pla.nt. 



known plant, are made up of the ribs 

 and cross veins only ; the interstices, 

 which, in other leaves are filled up with 

 cellular tissue, being in this case left 

 almost entirely open, and thus giving 

 to the leaf the appearance, in every re- 

 spect perfect and beautiful, of a piece 

 of well-wrought net or lattice work, 

 from which it derives its name. 



We saw a very fine specimen of the 



pitchers are, Avhen fully developed, pro- 

 vided with two sharply toothed wings. 

 The neck of the pitcher is thrown into 

 ridges with intervening furrows, and 

 is prolonged at the back into an erect, 

 or slightly incurved process, terminat- 

 ing in two sharp recurved spurs, the 

 whole reminding one of the head of a 

 snake uplifted and ready to strike with 

 its fangs. At a recent meeting of the 



