Tas. 6588. 
DROSERA capensis. 
Native of the Oape of Good Hope. 
Nat. Ord. DgosERacez. 
Genus Drosgra, Linn. ; (Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. Pi, vol. i. p. 662.) 
Drosera (Rossolis) capensis ; caule brevi lignescente simplici apice folioso, foliis 
rosulatis longe petiolatis loriformibus obtusis longe setoso-glandulosis, stipulis 
connatis membranaceis, scapo elato pilosulo, racemo elongato multifloro ante 
anthesin deflexo, floribus breviter pedicellatis amplis roseis, sepalis oblongis 
obtusis glandulosis, petalis orbiculari-obovatis apice rotundatis, antheris trian- 
gulari-ovatis connectivo incrassato, ovario ellipsoideo 3-sulcato glaberrimo, 
stylis 3 sessilibus ad basin 2-fidis segmentis filiformibus patenti-incurvis, 
stigmatibus capitellatis, placentis 3. 
D. capensis, Linn. Sp. Pl. p- 403; Burm. Pl. Afr. t. 75, f.1; Berg. Fl. Cap. 
p. 81; Thunb. Diss. p.6, Flor, Capens. p. 620; DC. Prodr. vol. i. p. 318; 
Planch. in Ann. Sc. Nat. ser. 3, vol. ix. p. 196; Harv. et Sond. Fl. Cap. 
ba i. p. 77; Belgique Hortic. 1880, t.16; Gard. Chron. N.S., vol. iv. p- 105, 
. 20 B. 
The genus Drosera, though so widely spread over the 
cold and hot regions of the globe, does not abound in 
Species in any one country, except Australia, which contains 
about half the known species, forty-one being described in 
the “ Flora Australiensis.” Next to this country the Cape 
of Good Hope with eight is perhaps the richest for its 
area. Unlike the European Droseras, many of those of the 
Cape and Australia inhabit places which are wet only 
during the rainy season, and are burnt up during the dry, 
which renders these species difficult of cultivation under 
artificial conditions. Of these again some have hyber- 
nating roots, needing no water during the season of rest, 
whilst others have woody stems or rhizomes, with minute 
fibrillous roots that penetrate far for water, and supply the 
little that is needed for the life of the winter bud. 
D. capensis is apparently one of the latter class, and its 
woody short stock or stem resembles that of Prosophyllum 
OCTOBER Ist, 1881. 
