142 PENTANDRIA. MONOGYNIA. 
4, filiformis, Leaves filiform and subulate, very long 
_ (6 to 9 inches), covered from the base to the summit with 
tentaculoid, glandulous filaments, smooth on the “— 
side, vircinately involute, or rolled inward from the bas 
to the point, (similar to the unexpanded frond of a 
Fern). Stipule complicately-dissected, resembling a lanu- 
ginous web. Scape smooth, about the length of the leaf, 
racemosely cymose, simple or bifid, few-flowered; bractes ’ 
subulate, longer than the pedicells. Calix 5-parted, seg- 
‘ments unequal, short, the larger oboval, very obtuse, ex- 
ternally covered with a short viscid pubescence. Petals 
numerously and longitudinally veined, oboval, pale purple. 
Stamina 5, anthers bilobed, oblong, yellow, pollen large 
in twin globules. Style sessile, stigmas 3, deeply bitid, 
__ summit somewhat incrassated, viscid. Seeds black, mi-  - 
» fMute, ovate, acute, punctured. ‘This singular species 0 
Drosera Was first discovered in New Jersey by Mr. Rafa- 
eeagie and described in the second volume of the New 
York Medical Repository. It appears to be nearly allied 
_ to D. lusitanica with which it ought to be compared. « 
Of this singular genus there are 4 species in Eu- 
oe rope; the D. lusitanica appears. to be almost a distinct 
--.. genus, having subumbellate decandrous flowers and con- 
sequently. very néarty allied to Dionea; there are @ species 
at the Cape of Good Hope, of which the D. cistiflora seems z 
¥ to be also a separate genus; and one species in Cey- 
... lon nearly allied to the D. brevifolia; the D. indica also 
: appears inadmissible as a Drosera, having a branching 
_. stem;-the very singular D; peltata’ and D. pedata! of 
New Holland are indubitably distinct from the European 
Besides the botanical affinities existing betwixt Drosera 
and Dionea, there is also a similarity in their physical 
properties. Both give out by expression a. yellow and 
partly resinous fluid, which to the taste is sweet and 
somewhat astringent, but quickly succeeded by a transient 
est pungency. | » - 
- 219. WITIS. L. (Vine.) : 
_ Calix minute, 5-toothed or entire. Petals 5, 
mostly cohereing above in the manner of a 
calyptram, coming off at the base, and then deci- 
duous. Style 0. Stigma capitate. Berry 5- 
seeded, superior, round or rarely ovate. (Flowers 
_ mostly dioicous.) ie 
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