styles, to thé latter of which D. cistiflora belongs, 
though placed by De Candolle in the former. Planchon, 
on the other hand, has divided Drosera into thirteen © 
sections, upon characters, however, which Bentham does 
not find sufficiently: constant to be regarded as good, or so 
natural as to be useful. Of these thirteen D. cistiflora 
belongs to sect. Ptycnostigma, with forked styles bearing 
flabellately multifid tips, and an ovary with three placentas.’ 
D. cistiflora is confined to the south-west corner of 
South Africa, and in so far as is at present known does: 
not extend beyond 130 miles from Cape Town in any - 
direction. Within that limit it has been found by every 
collector, and is no doubt acommon plant. The specimens 
here figured were presented by Miss North in 1889, and 
* flowered in a sunny green-house. Mr. Watson informs me. 
that the flowers last about a fortnight, after which the 
leafing stem dies, but the roots remain healthy,.as with 
other Cape species and with the Australian D. dichotoma. 
*  Dusor. Root of fascicled fibres from a slender rhizome. 
Stem six to twelve inches high, erect, slender, leafy, pubes- 
cent with minutely glandular hairs. Leaves two to four 
inches long, by one-sixth of an inch broad, spreading, 
linear, subacute, copiously clothed on the margin and — 
upper surface with the glandular hairs of the order; 
stipules 0. Flowers one to three at the end of the stem, 
erect, nearly two inches in diameter. Sepals lanceolate, 
acute, not half the length of the petals, green, pubescent. 
Petals cuneately obovate, rose-red scarlet violet or white; 
outer margin erose, rounded truncate or retuse. Stamens 
very short; anthers oblong, red-brown, longer. than the 
filaments. Ovary subglobose, deeply laterally three-lobed ; 
styles cleft to the base, segments capillary, projecting 
horizontally between the bases of the filaments for upwards 
of half the length of the petals, white, tips flabellately 
lacerate with stigmatic arms.—J.D.H. ee 
. 
Fig. 1, Apex of leaf; 2 and 3, stamens ; 4, ovary :—all enlarged. 
