402 LI, DROSERACEE (OLIVER). [ Drosera. 
A large genus, generally dispersed over the Continents of both hemispheres, but most 
numerous in Australia. 
Acaulescent. 
Leaves rosulate, cuneate-spathulate or rotundate. : 
Ove Se ee ie See Burmanni. 
Styles $ each 2pertite . 2. wh we ee 8D. Bake 
_ Leaves linear-spathulate ea oer 
Stem elongate leafy. Styles 3, each bipartite. 
Leaves narrow-linear ; stipules setiform or 0. Scapes scarcely 
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Leaves oblanceolate or. spathulate, petiolate; stipules intra- . 
axillary, fimbriate. Scape elongate. 
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Lower leaves ascending. . . . ...... ..-.- .- 6. D. flexicaulis. 
te 6 & D. affiate: 
1. D. Burmanni, Vahl; DC. Prod. i. 318. Leaves all radical, 
rosulate, cuneate-spathulate, lamina equalling or exceeding the broad 
petiole. Stipules connate intra-axillary scarious fimbriate, half as long 
as petiole. Scape and pedicels glabrous; pedicels secund, about equal- 
ling the papillose fruiting calyx. Styles 5, undivided, slender; stigmas 
radiate-papillose. Placentas 5. 
' Upper Guinea. Sierra Leone, Afzelius. 
Description from M. Planchon’s memoir. 
Also in Tropical Asia and Australia. 
2. D. Burkeana, Planch. in Ann. Sc. Nat. sér. 3, ix.192 Acaulescent. 
Leaves more or less compactly rosulate, obovate or rotundate-cuneate, 
upper surface especially towards the margin clothed with stipitate 
genie lamina 4-1 in. broad, petiole pubescent or glabrate, §—4 12. 
tipules membranous, intrapetiolar, cut into about 3-5 or more teeth. 
Scape erect with the inflorescence glandular-puberulous, Y—38 in. to 1 fk 
few- to many-flowered. Pedicels nearly equalling the calyx. Flowers 
purple. Styles 3, each bipartite, branches slender, simple or bidentate 
at apex. 
Lower Guinea. Huilla, Angola, Dr. Welwitsch! 
Also south of the Tropic. 
3. D. affinis, Welw. sp. nov. Acaulescent. Leaves tufted, erect, 00 
long slender giabrous petioles, lamina linear-spathulate, obtuse, gra- 
dually narrowed from near the apex downwards, clothed with spread- 
ing stipitate glands to the petiole, together with it 2—34 in. long, 
lamina 1—2 lines broad above. Stipules more or less laciniate. Scape 
erect, glabrous, 2-3 times longer than leaves. Pedicels shorter that 
the puberulous ciliolate lobed calyx ; bracts 1 line more or less, linear. 
Petals blue-purple. Styles 3, each divided to the base into two 
slender branches equalling or exceeding the ovary. 
Lower Guinea, Huilla, Angola, Dr. Welwitsch! 
Near to D. copensis, in which, however, the leaf-lamina is uniformly linear or eve? 
slightly narrowed towards the apex. 
4. D. indica, Linn.; DC. Prod.i. 319. Stems elongate, ascendings 
leafy. Leaves narrow-linear, attenuate above, upper surface clothe 
