Tab. 7100. 
DROSERA CISTIFLORA. 
Native of South’ Africa. 
Nat. Ord. DrosEracex®. 
Genus Drosera, Linn. ; (Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. P/. vol. i. p. 662 ) 
- Drosera cistiflora; caule erecto simplici gracili felioso 1-6-floro, foliis lineari- 
bus creberrime glandulosis, floribus amplis roseis violaceis v. albis, sepalis 
lineari-lanceolatis glanduloso-puberulis, petalis late cuneato-obovatis 
margine exteriore crenulatis, fildmentis brevissimis, antheris oblongis, 
ovarii stylis a basi 2-partitis ramis inter filamenta porrectis capillaribus 
petalis dimidio brevioribus, apicibus flabellatim multifidis stigmatosis. 
_. D.cistiflora, Linn. Amen. Acad. vol. vi. p. 85; Burm. Pl. Afric. p. 210, 
t.75,f. 2; Thunb. Diss. Dros.; Fl. Cap. p. 279; DC. Prodr. vol. i. 
p- 319; Planch. in Ann, Se. Nat. Ser, 3, vol. ix. (1848) p. 202; Harv.. — 
¥ Sond. Fl. Cap. vol. i. p. 78. 
D. speciosa, Pres?, Bot. Bemerk. 14; Planch. l. c. 202; Walp. Ann. vol. ii. 
p.72. ; : ; : . 
. Helianthemum, Planch. Zc. p. 203; Walp. 1. ¢. 
. violacea, Willd. Enum. Plant. Hort. Reg. Berol. 340. 
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The most beautiful of all known Sundews, at least in 
so far as the species in cultivation .are concerned ; and 
this form of it especially, for the: scarlet flowers are not 
invariable. Thunberg, describes two varieties, one -he 
calls alba, with white petals spotted at the base; the | 
other, violacea, with rosy red or purple flowers. There 
are besides a D. speciosa of Presl, retained as a species 
by Planchon, with fewer and: Jess glandular leaves, and 
which is the ‘D. cistiflora var. B. of E. Meyer, and D. 
Helianthemum ‘of Planchon, with a taller many -leaved 
three- to six-flowered stem, and which is the D. cistiflora 
var. multiflora of Eckl. and Zeyher. Amongst the nu- 5 
merous,specimens in the Kew Herbarium, there are many =~ 
that are intermediate between the other species retained 
by Planchon. : ie oe 
The ‘genus has been divided by De Candolle into two+ — 
sections, namely foreila, with | rosulate leaves, leafless 
scapes and sparingly divided or simple styles, te 
Ergaleium with usually leafy stems and much-branch : 
Fesrvary Ist, 1890. ot ; = 
