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SARRACENTA rusra. 
Red Side-saddle. Flower. 
POLYANDRIA MONOGYNIA.—Nar. Orv. INC. SEDIS, Juss. 
Gen. Cuan.—Calyx duplex persistens; ext. minore triphyllo; int. penta- 
phyllo. Petala 5,-decidua. Stigma magnum, clypeatum, pentangulare, 
_persistens, stamina obtegens. Capsula 5-locularis, 5-valvis, polysperma, 
valvis medio septiferis. 
Sarracenia rubra; foliis scapo brevioribus tubo superne sensim dilatato 
reticulatim venoso, appendice ovato-acuminata, planiuscula erecta. 
S. rubra, Wart, Carol. p. 152.—Witup. Sp. Pl. v. ii. p. 1150.—Arr. Hort. 
Kew. ed. 2+ v.- iii, p- 291. 
S. psittacina, Micu. Fl. Bor. Am. v.i. p. $11.2—Pursu, Fl. N. Am. v. ii- 
p. 369. > 
Leaves radical, 8 or 9 inches long, oblong, gradually tapering from the near- 
-ly cylindrical base upwards to the mouth of the ‘ube, where it is about 
_an.inch and a half in its greatest diameter : it is laterally compressed, of 
_ a green colour, marked with longitudinal nerves and connecting reticu- 
lated veins, which, in the upper part, are of a purple colour. Jn the 
front of the leaf, there runs a longitudinal waved ala or wing, from the 
mouth to the base of the tube, and which is about one-third of an inch 
deep. The mouth of the tube is ovate, scarcely at all contracted, thicken- 
ed at the margin, the front declined, the back of it surmounted with a 
broadly ovato-lanceolate, acuminate, nearly erect appendage, which is 
slightly convex, the margin alone, near the base, being recurved. - This 
is usually of a purplish colour, marked with veins like the rest of the 
leaf, within covered with very minute reflexed hairs. 
a twice the length of the leaves, one foot and a half long, cylindrical, 
erect, green, purplish above, and curved. at the extremity, bearing a 
single, drooping, large, richly coloured flower. 
Calyx double, the outer one of 3 small, ovate, yellow-green leaflets ; the inner 
of 5, broadly ovate, bright purplish crimson spreading: leaflets, the ex- 
tremities pointing downwards, and protecting the rest of the flower. Pe- 
tals 5, broadly ovato-rotundate, remarkably contracted below the aie, 
flaccid, pendent, of a very deep, fine purple colour, g t th 
Stamens in a hollow cup-shaped receptacle, formed by the sisal 
petals, numerous. Filaments rather short, purplish dotted. Anther insert- 
ed by the middle of its back, nearly horizontal, oblong, yellowish, form- 
ed of 2 cells, which open with a large aperture at the extremity. Pollen 
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