Drosera. | LI, DROSERACE (OLIVER). 403 
with long, slender, stipitate glands nearly to the base; $—1} in. long. 
Stipules setiform or obsolete. Racemes very shortly pedunculate, 
shorter than or scarcely overtopping the leafy shoots, at length often 
recurved, Bracts subulate. Pedicels }in. more or less. Sepals linear- 
lanceolate, acute. Petals spatbulate, gradually narrowed ners Styles 
3, bipartite to base, segments filiform, laxly papillose at apex.— 
D. minor, Schum. et Thonn. Pl. Guin. 167. 
Upper Guinea. Nupe, Niger, Barter! Sierra Leone, Afzelius. 
Lower Guinea. Pungo Andongo, Angola, Dr. Welwitsch! 
Also Indian and eastward to China and Australia. 
5. D. ramentacea, Burch.; DC. Prod. i. 818. Stems ascending, 
elongate, leafy, lower withered leaves sharply reflexed. Leaves of 
present year spreading or erect, oblanceolate, obtuse, clothed with long 
red glands on the upper surface, narrowed into long, straight, slender, 
nearly glabrous petioles ; with the petiole 3-lin. long. Stipules con- 
nate, intra-axillary, scarious, narrow-laciniate. Scapes long, slender, 
glabrous or crisped-puberulous, abruptly curved at base, simple or 
forked above, 3-1 ft. long; racemes 4—15-flowered. Bracts linear- 
oblong, obtuse, shorter than or equalling the pedicels which are 1-8 
lines. Sepals oblanceolate or obovate-oblong, ciliate, with the pedicels 
obsoletely glandular-granulate. Petals obovate. Styles 8, each divided 
to the base, segments linear-subulate, minutely papillose—D. mada- 
gascariensis, DC. Le. 
Upper Guinea. Nupe, Niger (scape glabrous), Barter! ; 
Lower Guinea. Huilla, Angola (scape puberulous), Dr. Welwitsch! 
Also at the Cape, and in Madagascar. 
6. D. flexicaulis, Wel. sp. nov. Stem erect, slender, flexuous, 
sparsely leafy, glabrate, 3-8in. long from fascicled, elongate, cylin- 
drical tubercles. Leaves spathulate-oval, with stipitate glands, nar- 
rowed into the slender, glabrous petiole, all, including the lower, erect or 
ascending ; lamina and petiole 1-1} in. long. Stipules of rosette-leaves 
unequally lpia baa 17 Scapes 1 or 2, erect, very slender, usu- 
ally curved at base from a little below the extremity, glabrous, 4—7 ine 
long. Pedicels strict-erect, about equalling the calyx ; bracts filiform, 
deciduous, Calyx-lobes ciliolate. Styles as in D. ramentacea, 
Lower Guinea. Huilla, Angola, Dr. Welwitsch! 
Stem-leaves never reflexed as in D. ramentacea. 
Orver LIT. HAMAMELIDESZ. (By Prof. Oliver.) 
Flowers unisexual (or hermaphrodite). Perianth 0 (or calyx-tube 
more or less adnate with the ovary). Petals 0,4 or more. Stantens 
4—co ; filaments short or long, free; anthers oblong, often tetragonous, 
2-celled, dehiscing longitudinally, sometimes by a valve on each side. 
Ovary 2-3-4-carpellary, 2—4-celled below, when calyx is present usu- 
ally partially or wholly inferior; carpels free above, each with 2 subu- 
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