Plate 6.] 



DRUMMONFS SIDE-SADDLE FLOWER. 



( SARRACENIA DRUMMONDII. ) 



A Stove Marsh Plant, from Florida, belonging to the Natural Order of Sarrackniads. 



Specific Character. 



DRUMMOND'S SIDE-SADDLE FLOWER—" Pitchers long, straight, dilated upwards, angular, tapering much to the 

 base ; furnished with a sharp projecting rib in front, with an undulating inflexed roundish blade, which is covered 

 with long hairs in the inside. Flowers purple. " 



Sarracenia Drummondii. Croom's Observations on the genus Sarracenia, No. 3, with a plate, in the "Annate of the 



Lyceum of Natural History of New York," vol. iv. 



THIS plant was, we believe, originally introduced by tbe late Mr. Drummond, who met 

 with it in Florida, near tbe town of Appalacbicola. It bas since been found 

 abundantly, by Dr. Cbapman, on tbe western borders of the river of the same name, below 

 Ocheesee. It, therefore, inhabits the swamps of a region which, during summer, experiences 

 a tropical heat, as is in some measure indicated by the presence of orchidaceous epiphytes, 

 such as Epidendrum Magnolias and tampense. 



The pitchers of this plant are from eighteen inches to two and a half feet long, perfectly 

 erect and straight, with very much the form of a postman's horn. Their colour is of the 

 most vivid green, except at the upper expanded end, where they are brilliantly variegated 

 with white, red, and green. The rim of the orifice of the pitchers is slightly folded back, 

 from the front towards the back, where it expands into a broad roundish arched cover, much 

 undulated and crisped. In the inside this cover is clothed with long hairs, which partially 

 disappear towards the entrance of the pitcher, at which point there is a considerable exudation 

 of sweet viscid matter, apparently secreted by the hairs which exist there. The flower is of 

 a dingy purple colour, roundish, about two and a half inches in diameter, with five blunt 

 acuminate sepals, five obovate inflexed petals, and a pale-green dilated five-angled membranous 

 stigma, which is nearly as long as the flower itself ; each angle is divided into two short 

 lobes, beneath which, in a fold, lies the real stigmatic surface. These flowers have little 

 beauty, and are by no means the object of the gardener's care. 



