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Drosera binata. Forked-leaved 

 Sun-dew. 



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Class and Order. 

 Pentandria Pentagynia. 



( Nat. Ord. — Droserace^e. ) 



Generic Character.' 



Sepala petalaque 5, inappendiculata. Stam. 5. Styli 

 3 — 5, bipartiti. — Herbae in uliginosis sphagnosis crescentes. 

 Folia ciliis glandulosis rubidis irritabilibus ornata. 



Specific Character and Synonyms. 



Drosera * binata ; acaulis, foliis longe petiolatis profunde 

 bipartitis lobis linearibus, stylis capillaceo-multifidis. 



Drosera binata. Labill. Nov. Holl. v. 1. t. 105. p. 78. 

 Be Cand. Syst. Veget. v. I. p. 319. Spreng. Syst. 

 Veget. v. 1. p. 956. 



Descr. Root perennial, of a few stout, descending, 

 branched fibres. Leaves all of them radical, five to six 

 inches or more long (including the petiole) deeply bipar- 

 tite, with two spreading, linear-acuminate lobes, fringed at 

 the margin, and clothed on the upper surface with copious 

 hairs, tipped with red, viscid glands. Petioles very long, 

 terete, glabrous. Scape longer than the leaves, terete, 

 reddish at the base, glabrous, bearing a few-flowered co- 

 rymb. Pedicels glabrous. Calyx four- to five-partite. 

 Petals four or five, large, obovate, waved, yellowish at the 

 base. Stamens four or five. Filaments subulate. Anthers 

 cordate, deep orange. Pistil : Germen subglobose, four- 



* From fy, S o«, dew, the glands of the leaves distilling a viscid, pellucid 

 fluid, resembling dew. 



