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424 xrv- DROSERACEJi. (C. B. Clarke.) [Drosera. 



1. BZlOSEItA, Linn, 



Perennial herts, scapigerous or with a leafy stem, glandular-pilose, ^ Leaves 

 rosulate or alternate, usually circinate in vernation ; stipules or scariose and 

 adnata to tlie petiole. Calyx free from the ovary, 4-8-partite, sepals persistent. 

 Petals 4-8, hypogynous or scarcely perigynous, white or rose, withering persis- . 

 tent. Stamens aa many as the petals, hypogynous or scarcely perigynous. ^ Ovary 

 1-celled with 2-5 styles ; ovules parietal, numerous. Cajmile loculicidally 

 2-5-valved. Seeds numerous, in the Indian species ohovoid-ellipsoid with the 

 testa black smooth reticulate not lax.— Distrib. Species 100, scattered through- 



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1. D. Burmannl, Vahl. Symh. iii. 50 ; leaves all radical rosulate cuneate- 

 spathulate, stipules equalling half the petiole, scapes 1-3 glahrous, flowers race- 

 mose with glabrous pedicels, styles 5 undivided. Don Prodr. 212 ; DC. Proar. i. 

 318 ; Roxb. FL Ind. ii. 113 ; Wall. Cat. 1242 ; Wight. III. t. 20 (the styles incor- 

 rect) ; Wight Ic. t. 944 ; W. 8f A. Prodr. 34 ; Planch, in Ann. Sc. Nat. ser. lu. 

 vol. ix. 190; Miq. FL Ind. Bat. i. pt. ii. p. 120; H. /. 8^ T. in Joum. Ltnn. 

 Soc. ii. 82 ; Thwaites Enum. 21 ; Dalz. 8^ Gibs. Bomb. FL 12 ; Kurz %n Journ. 

 As. Soc. 1876, pt. ii. 310. 



Throughout India in the Plains, from Ceylox and Bombay to the base of the 

 HiaiAiAYA and Burmah ; abundant ; ascending to 4000 ft. in the Himalaya, and »UUU 

 ft. in the Deccan. — Distkib. China and Japan, Malaya, West Africa, Austraha. 



Leaves ^-1^ in. long. Sca^pes 2-8 in. high ; pedicels erect in fruit, Calys minute y. 

 papillose. 



2. I>. Indlca, Linn. Sp. PL 403 ; stem decumbent elongate with alternate 

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long linear leaves, racemes leaf-opposed, styles 3 bifid to the base. 



Thwaites Enum. 21 ; Dalz. ^ Gibs. Bomb. FL 12 ; Km^ in Journ. As. '^oc 

 1876, pt. ii. 310. D. Finlaysoniana, WalL Cat. 3752. D. serpens, Planch. 1. c. 



JSort, Mai 



-ALAY PeNINSUI 



Deccan as far north as Chota Nagpork, frequent ; ^uR^xa an 



i fbut not known in thA aa-nP-ftfiV. Plaint— DiSTElB. tHind, 



Malaya, Tropical Australia, Africa. ' , 



Stems 2-12 in., simple, rarely branched. Leaves 1-3 in., very glai^^^^f ^"jP^ • ' 

 cent, hardly broader than the glabrous petiole. Racemes 2-6 in. ; P®^^^^ . ,^'Lta 

 Sepals lanceolate, minutely glandulose or nearly glabrous. Seeds obovoid; te 

 prominently reticulated, not scrobieulate nor differing essentially from the seeas 

 the other two Indian species. 



3. D. 



leaves 



d. D. peltata, Sm. in Willd. Sp. PL i. 1546 ; stem erect leaiy, ^^- 

 alternate long petioled lunate peltate, sepals ovate glabrous erose or ^^^ .^^ 



s^les 3 hmbnate. DC. Prodr. i. 319 ; Sm. Exot. Bot. t. 41 (wrong as J 

 of the flowers) ', Don Prodr. 212; Wight LIL t. 20; W. 8f A. Prod^ 

 Planch, in Ann. Sc. Nat. ser. iii. vol. ix. 296 ; Kurz in Jmirn. As. So^- - 

 t. n. 310. D. lunata, Ham. ; DC. Prodr. i. 319; WalL Cat. 1243; foou^ 

 54; Planch. 1. c. 296; itfty. FL Lnd. Bat. i. pt. ii. p. 120; H. f 9^ 

 Journ. Linn. Soc. ii. 82 ; Thwaites Enum. 22. D. gracilis and D. fobosa, ^ 

 f. ; Planch. 1. p. 297;. 2^8. I). Lobbiana, Turcz. (fide Kurz). 



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