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Rh Of the species there are not many. The most useful is S. Drummondi, of which there are several varieties, alba being perhaps the best. This is of tall growth. The pitchers are nearly a yard high. The lid is most delicately veined with carmine, on a creamy pale green or snow-white ground. The flowers are dull purplish red, handsome and peculiar. The variety of Drummondi called rubra has pitchers richly veined, red and pale green; the flowers mount high above them, and are of a great size, and a most beautiful purplish red colour.

S. flava is also a tall kind, the pitchers being two and a half feet high, and the flowers a trifle taller. The latter are



yellowish-green, quite transparent; the pitchers also are the same colour. It is a fine species. There is a variety of this called picta, which is more distinctly veined than the species.

S. purpurea is very dwarf, with large pouch-like pitchers distended in the middle. The colour of the pitchers is