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decaying insects contained in the reservoir. The re- 

 markable Lemuroid (Tarsius spectrum) likewise visits 

 the pitcher-plants for the sake of the entrapped 

 insects. These it can easily obtain from the N. Raf- 

 flcsiana, but not so from N. bicalcarata, 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 calif ornica, 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 



