OE et ne ete 
Tas. 5796. 
DROSOPHYLLUM LUSITANICUM. 
Portuguese Yellow Sundew. 
Nat. Ord. Droseracem.—OcTANDRIA PENTAGYNIA. 
Gen. Char.—Calyx 5 partitus, foliolis oblongis imbricatis. Petala 5, hypo- 
gyna, patentia, nervosa. Stamina 10-20, hypogyna, filamentis filiformibus ; 
anther oblonge, extrorse. Ovarium ovoideum, 1 loculare; styli 5, fili- 
formes, stigmatibus capitatis; ovula numerosa, placente basilari affixa. 
Capsula conica, chartacea, 1-locularis, ad medium 5-valvis, polysperma. 
Semina majuscula, obovoidea, funiculo elongato, testa crassa; embryo in 
_basi albuminis densi semi-immersa, minima. Fruticulus pedalis, caule brevi, 
totus pilis grosse capitato-glandulosis viscidus. Folia confertim alterna, 
elongato linearia, apice attenuata, vernatione circinatim revoluta. Flores 
corymbosi, ampli, sulphurei. Capsula exserta, erecta. 
Drosopny.uium lusitanicum, Linn. D.C. Prod. i. 320. St. Hil.in Mem. Mus. 
ii. 124, t. 4, f. 13. 
This almost shrubby representative of the Sundews of our 
bogs and moors is one of the most singular plants of the 
European Flora; it differs from its ally Drosera, not only 
in habit and size, and in some very curious points of struc- 
ture, as the numerous stamens, entire styles and basilar 
placente, but in the nature of the glandular hairs, which 
have rigid pedicels that are not endowed with the motive 
power of those of the English Sundews, which curve towards 
their prey when once it is entangled. A still more anoma- 
lous character is to be found in the way the leaves are 
developed in the bud, being circinate and revolute, not imvo- 
lute as in our Droseras, in Ferns, Cycads, and other plants ; 
and of this mode of development Drosophyllum is, in so far as 
I know, the only example in the vegetable kingdom. 
Drosophyllum is a native of Spain, Portugal, and Mauri- 
tania, inhabiting sandy shores and dry rocks, by the sea and 
OCTOBER Ist, 1869. 
