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terminated by a long rigid spine, which does not 

 appear as a continuation of the leaf: cirrose (cir- 

 rosw, circinatus), 20, when it is produced into a 

 kind of tendril ; and this is in a few instances " fur- 

 " nished with an additional organ for some par- 

 " ticular purpose not essential to a leaf J." Thus, 

 in one species of the genus Nepenthes-}-, 21, the 



J Smith's Introduction, p. 173. 



f This singular family of plants was first noticed by Hiero- 

 nymus Benzoni, an Italian, who visited India about the middle 

 of the sixteenth century (1542 1556); and was described by 

 him in a work entitled, " Nova novi Orbis Historia," Genevae, 

 1578. One species of it, the Phyllamphora (Lin.) 9 was af- 

 terwards fully described and figured in the Herbarium Amboi- 

 nense of Rumphius, who was appointed Governor of Amboyna 

 in 1706. Rumphius regards the fluid found in the pitcher as a 

 secretion of the plant itself, and says it increases during the 

 night ; that it has a sweetish taste and attracts worms and other 

 insects into the pitcher; who, however, all die, except a 

 species of squilla, " squilla gibba/' that seems to prey upon the 

 carcasses of the others. He describes the pitcher itself as being 

 beautifully coloured in the inside with purple streaks and spots ; 

 and the lid opening and shutting. This species is found in 



