Drosera. ] 



Liv. DROSERACE-5:. (C. B. Clarke.) 



425 



Throughout Inbia. Var. 1 confined to the Malayan Peninsula ; var. 2 ascending to 

 10,000 ft. in the Himalaya, and 8000 in the Nilghiris.— Distkib. Malay Archipelago 

 to Australia. 



Stems 3-12 in. high, simple or corymbose upwards. Racemes suLterminal, pedi- 

 cels ^-f in, long. Flowers white. Seed as in the preceding species ; with a close 

 testa (as Benth. correctly) and not tuberculate, which Planchon says it is. This plant 

 turns very black in drying, but often stains the drying paper purple, 



Vae. 1. typica ; rosulate leaves persistent, sepals very fimbriate. Moitlhein and 



SiNCAPORE. 



Vae, 2. lunata; rosulate leaves early deciduous, sepals erose or but slightly 

 fimbriate. 



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[D. INTERMEDIA of Herb, Eoyle is stated to have been collected in N. W. India; 

 yhieh, as Royle's specimens are D,peltata typica, is improbable. D, intermedia of W. 

 4^'Prodr, 34 is probably founded on the specimen so named and still preserved in 

 Wight^s Herbarium which seems to have been collected, not in India, and by a Dr. 

 Haynes, not Heyne.j 



2. AXiDROVANBA, Zmn. 



A weak succulent diaphanous glabrous floating herb in water. Stems arti- 

 culate, with whorls of spathulate-orbicular leaves at the nodes, the laminae 

 |~4 in. diam., contorted, "bladdery. Floivers peduncled^ axillar}', solitary. Calyx 

 5-partite. Petals 5, hypogynous, counivent in a cap. Stamens 5, hypogyuous. 

 Omry 1-celled ; styles 5 with terminal branching stigmas ; ovules numerous, on 

 o parietal placentae. Capsule globose, 5-valved. Seeds numerous, broad, oblong, 

 testa black shinii 



;.. 1. A. vesiculosa, L{nn.\ DC. P?^odr. i. 319; EeicL Iconogr. Europ. 



^' t. 24 I H.f. 8r T in Jmiim.. Unn. Son. li. 83 : W. & A. Frodr. 34 ; Flarwh. 



Nat 



A. verticillata, Roxb, FL Ind. ii. 112. 



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■' Salt-pans south of CALcrxTA ; Eoxburgh; T. Thomson; S. Kurs.—DisimB. Cen- 

 tral Europe and Australia. 



Order LV. KADXAZMEEZiZDES:. (By 0. B. Clarke, F.L.S.) 



Tr 



Arees or shrubs, often with stellate puhescence ; prosenchym 



cetaes 



or 



spikes. 



p--, ui spiKes. ijalyx small or 0, adnate to the ovary; free in Distylmm. 

 in r? ^' ^^ ^S perigynous or nearly epig}Tioiis. Stamens 4-x , perigynous, or 

 ^iHstyliutn hypogrnous ; anthers dehiscing longitudinally ; the valves decidu- 

 ■^ in Loropetalmn. Ovary 2-celled ; styles 2, separate and ultimately divan- 



- ^:.._aous in Altingia) ; ovules 1-co , axile, pendulous. Capmle 

 - . -cing at the vertex across the dissepiment so as to split each style 



two, and in some genera also afterwards imperfectly dehiscing through the 

 ^epunent ; endocarp often horny separating from the exocarp. Seeds 1, or 

 ^y when usually only the lowest in each cell is perfect.— Distrib. Species 

 in K u "^ ^" ^^i* from Persia and the Himalaya to Malaya China and Japan ; 



^"^orth America and in South Africa. 



^„ ' Pei^istent (deciduous 

 ^ody, dehiscinV at the ^ 



:a. ^ 





