(Tab. 5796), which grows in places that are wet in spring 
and winter, but very dry in summer. 
Some of the noblest forms of Dorseracew are found at 
the Cape, but have never been introduced ; such are Drosera 
pauciflora and cistiflora, with petals sometimes an inch 
long, with a dark spot at the base, and the two species of 
the genus Roridula, which are shrubs, and of which one 1s 
used as a “ Fly-catcher” by the Boers in their rooms. _ 
D. capensis was introduced by Messrs. Veitch; it 
flowered in a cool greenhouse in the Royal Gardens im 
July. Native specimens attain eighteen inches in height, 
with several scapes, and leaves six to ten inches long. 
Descr. Stem one or two inches high, erect, simple, 
clothed with remains of leaf-bases and stipules. Leaves 
crowded at the top of the stem, four to eight inches long, 
spreading ; blade as long as the petiole, one-fourth of an 
inch wide, strap-shaped, obtuse, clothed with long red 
gland-tipped hairs; petiole stout, hairy. Scape stout, much 
longer than the leaves, hairy and slightly glandular. Raceme 
three to six inches long, many-flowered, sharply decurved — 
before flowering, ascending as the flowers open. lowers 
opening one at a time, an inch in diameter, pale rose-red 5 
pedicels short. Sepals elliptic-oblong, obtuse. Petals 
orbicular-obovate. Anthers with a broad connective and 
the cells spreading below. Ovary oblong, three-grooved, — 
with three placentas; stigmas three, divided to the base 
into two spreading and then ascending filiform divisions, 
each with a capitate stigma.—J. D. H. 
Fig. 1, Portion of leaf; 2, glandular ovule; 3, stamens; 4, ovary ; 5, transverse 
section of ditto :—all enlarged. ; 
