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which is spotted with crimson. The flower I have not 

 seen, but the leaves, which are moderately large and 

 broad at least those of them which produce the 

 broad pitcher, and which are found near the base of 

 the plant are dark green above, and of a fine peach- 

 coloured red beneath. Six plants of this kind are now 

 in England, but have not yet produced their pitchers. 



The Nepenthes arnpullacea produces its green or 

 spotted short and broad pitchers in a different manner 

 from the last : it is also a climbing plant, and found in 

 thick jungles. The old steins, falling from the trees, 

 become covered in a short time with leaves and 

 vegetable matter, which form a coating of earth about 

 them ; they then throw out shoots which become in time 

 new plants ; but apparently the first attempts to form 

 the leaf are futile, and become only pitchers, which, as 

 the petioles are closely imbricated, form a dense mass, 

 and frequently cover the ground as with a carpet of 

 these curious formations. As it continues growing 

 and endeavouring to become a plant, the laminae of 

 the leaves gradually appear, small at first, but every 

 new one increasing in size, until finally the blades of 

 the leaves are perfect, and the pitchers, which, as 

 the leaves developed themselves, have become gradually 

 smaller on each new leaf, finally disappear altogether 

 when the plant climbs into the trees. This formation 

 of the pitcher may afford an instructive lesson to 

 the naturalist, as, though not to the same extent, 

 the principle is perceptible in all of this curious 

 tribe, the leaves of seedlings and weak plants always 

 producing the largest pitchers. 



