. 
76 , DROSERACEZ (Sond.) [ Drosera. 
Styles 3-5, bifid or bipartite, the branches undivided or multifid. 
Capsule membranous, 3—5-valved, manyseeded. DC. Prod. 1. p. 317. 
Endl. Gen. 5033. 
Stemless and scapigerous, or caulescent herbs, mostly perennial, often with tu- 
berous roots, found in all parts of the world; very numerous in Australia. Leaves 
alternate, scattered or rosulate, clothed on the upper surface and margin with gland- 
tipped hairs, circinate when young, either exstipulate, or furnished with an axillary 
membranous, simple, or multifid scale, composed of two confluent stipules. Flowers 
in scorpioid unilateral cymes, or secundly racemose, rarely solitary ; rosy, purple, or 
white. Petals very delicate, and soon withering. Name, from d5pecos dew ; the glands 
of the leaves exuding dew-like drops of fluid, which glitter in sunshine : whence, the 
English name “ Sundew.” 
Sect. I, Rossolis. Styles 3, bifurcate near the base ; the branches 
club-shaped, undivided or bilobulate. Placente 3, many ovuled. Rossolis 
and Crypterisma, Pl. Ann. Se. Nat. 1848, p. 92. (Sp. 1-6). 
*Stemless ; leaves radical, rosulate. (Sp. 1-3). 
: 1. D. trinervia (Spreng Anleit, 1. p. 298); small; all the leaves radi- 
alu cal, sessile ; spathulato-cuneate, 3—5-nerved ; stipules scarcely any, except 
im two filaments attached to the base of the petiole ; scapes few flowered, 
pe / (3 with the pedicels and calyces glanduloso-pubescent. DC. Prod. 1. p. 318. 
 QawPlanch.l.c.p. 191. D. cwneifolia. a& y, Thunb. Dissert. p. 5. Bartl. Linn. 
(Kau. ~7- p 620. H. & Z, 124. Un. Itin. 254, 33. 
SN. + . Has. Table mountain. Thunb., H & Z./ W. H. H. Pappe, &e. Hott. Holl, & Tul- a 
“=~ bagh Mts. and on the Piquetberg, Zeyher 53. Paarlberg & Drackensteen, Drege, ae 
www 7288. (Herb, Sond. Lehm. T.C.D.) oes 
ue - — About two inches high ; rarely 3-4 inches. Leaves rosulate, 4-8 lines long, 1¢ Geol 8 LE 
Dx, 
3 lines wide, glabrous on the lower surface. Scape slender, 2-4 flowered : 
6-8 flowered ; pedicels 1-2 lines long. Calyx lobes ovate. Petals white, twice ash a 
long as the calyx. Anthers ovate. Stigmata dilated, cuneate, obsoletely palmatifid. 
2. D. Burkeana (Planch. |. c. p. 192) ; dwarf ; all the leaves radical, 
small, with a subrotund lamina shorter than the petiole ; stipules con- 
nate into a single intra-axillary piece, conspicuous, each bifid ; scapes 
slender, racemose, the pedicels and calyces glandularly puberulous. 
Has. Aapjes-rivier, Macallisberg, Zeyher § Burke! Natal, Sanderson. (Herb., 
Hook., Sond., T.C.D.) 
Leaves 4 inch long, the lamina shorter than the petiole, 2 lines wide, naked on 
__ the lower side ; the marginal ciliz longish. Scape 3—4 inches long, 2-6 flowered ; 
ov 1 line long, the lower often elongate. Calyx obtuse, in flower 1 line, in - 
Tug 
adi olind in Zwartland, Thunb., Bg Z, 
4-| 4g, From 3-6 inches high, £0 a foot or more. 
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