INSECTIVOROUS PLANTS 



DEOSEEA CAPENSIS, Linn. 

 Bot. Mag. t. 6583 ; La Belg. Hort. 1880, p. 311, pi. xvi. 



Introduced by us from the Cape in 1874, and flowered for the first time 

 in a cool greenhouse in the Eoyal Gardens, Kew, in July 1881. 



This interesting plant, allied to the Sundew, Drosera rotundifolia, has 

 strap-shaped leaves from 4 to 8 in. long. 



HELIAMPHOBA NUTANS, Benth. 



Bot. Mag. t. 7093 ; Gard. Chron. 1905, vol. xxxvii. p. 194, fig. 79. 



This most remarkable plant discovered by the brothers Schomburgk, 

 the energetic travellers, the first to visit the mountain Eoraima, in British 

 Guiana, at the base of which this pitcher plant was found. 



Sir Eobert Schomburgk made an excellent drawing and sent it, with 

 dried specimens, to Mr. Bentham of Kew, who published a full account 

 in the Trans, of the Linn. Soc. vol. xviii. p. 432, and on this species founded 

 the new genus Heliamphora. 



Ee-discovered in the same locality by the collector, David Burke, in 

 1881, plants sent home flowered for the first time in June 1889. 



NEPENTHES ALBO-MAEGINATA, Lobb. 



Gard. Chron. 1849, p. 580, with fig. ; The Garden, 1880, vol. xvii. p. 542, col. pi. fig. 3 ; 

 Fl. des Serres, 1877, p. 165. 



Sent to Exeter by Thomas Lobb from Borneo with several other fine 

 pitchers, this small, handsome species takes its specific name from the 

 peculiar white band surrounding the throat of the urn, below the peristome. 

 The base is green, the upper portion bright rosy carmine dotted with 

 creamy white on the interior as on the lid. 



NEPENTHES ANGUSTIFOLIA, Mast. 



Masters in Gard. Chron. 1881, vol. xvi. p. 524. 



A species found in Sarawak by both Curtis and Burbidge, and raised 

 from seed sent home by the former ; the pitchers small, not very orna- 

 mental. 



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