Drosera. | DROSERACE& (Sond.) 75 
erect, glabrous ; leaves subsessile, oblong-lanceolate or lanceolate, acute, 
obsoletely serrate, glabrous, the margin ciliate, narrowed at base ; sti- 
pules subulate ; peduncles axillary, one flowered ; sepals lanceolate, 
glabrous ; labellum very large, transversely-oblong, mucronate, with a very 
short spur. z ec 
Has, In grassy places. Omsamwubo, Omsamcaba, Omtendo, towards Port Na- _ 
tal, Drege. Gathered also by Sieber ; station not given. (Herb. Sond., T.C.D.) 
6-12 inches high, angulately branching. Leaves 8-12 lines long, 4 lines wide, 
coriaceous, green, glabrous on both sides, the lower on very short petioles, upper 
sessile, Peduncles longer than the leaves, compressed, downy, nodding, bibracteo- 
late. Sepals 2 lines long. ‘Labellum thrice as long as the lateral petals, clawed, 
the limb 4 lines long, 5-6 lines wide, cordate at base, subretuse at apex. Calcar $ 
line long.— Known from the last by its want of pubescence, by the smaller, trans- 
versely oblong labellum and the narrower leaves. 
“OrvER XII. DROSERACEZ, DC. 
(By W. SonvEr.) 
(Droseracee, DC. Prod. 1. p. 317. Endl. Gen. No. clxxix. Lindl. 
Veg. Kingd. No. clvii). 
Flowers regular. Sepals 5, distinct, or connate, imbricate, persistent. 
Petals 5, hypogynous or adnate to the sepals, imbricate, equal. Stamens 
as many as the petals and alternate with them, or 2—4-times as many ; 
filaments free, filiform ; anthers extrorse, erect, and fixed, or versatile. 
Ovary free, unilocular, with 3-5 parietal, or a single basal, placenta ; 
rarely 2—3-locular, with axile placenta, styles 3—5, distinct or partly, 
or wholly confluent, often forked (sometimes multifid) ; stigmata capi- 
tate... Ovules numerous, anatropous. Capsule girt with the persistent 
filaments, dry, splitting into valves ; seeds containing much albumen, 
and a minute basal embryo. 
Herbs, or suffrutices ; often stemless, sometimes twining plants, more or less — 
covered with dular hairs, exuding a clammy fluid. Leaves alternate, simple, 
solitary, or in secund, circinate racemes, gradually unrolling during anthesis, white, 
tralia particularly, have tuberous roots. — 
Species of Drosera (Sundew,) are scattered over most igs r s of the world, usually 
paqeonting suet lsu oo and marsh, y places ; but in Australia many are ,.) 
found in the driest ground, where they lie dormant for the test portions of the 
year, reviving with the first rains. Several contain a reddish brown dye, and others 
TABLE OF THE SOUTH AFRICAN GENERA. 
I. Drosera.—<Styles 3~5, bifid or bipartite. Ovary unilocular. _ 
I. Roridula.—Style, one, simple, stigma capitate. Ovary trilocular. 
I. DROSERA L. : 
———_Caly 5—parted, equal. Petals 5, obovate. Stamens 5 ; anthers a 
; slitting. Ovary unilocular, with 3-5, many ovuled, '?p ie . | 
