78 DROSERACEZ (Sond.) [ Drosera. 
ei Wel Var y. curvipes; stem short ; petiole flat or with the margins revo- 
SLI lute, and thus sulcate below, strigoso-pilose, twice as long as the lamina, 
("|0) flowers smaller. D. curvipes, Pl. 1. ¢. p. 196. 
Has. Interior districts, Masson, Burchell. Summit of Table Mountain : eastern a 
side, Ecklon, Preiss ; 8 same situation, Pappe, W.H.H. ; y, at Macallisberg, Burke & 
- Zeyher. (Herb. Sond. Hook., T.C.D). | 
Stems a foot or more high, very leafy ; in y, 1 inches long. Leaves 14 2 inches 
long; the lamina }-1 inch long, 2 lines wide, the upper surface covered: with long, 
bright red, gland-tipped hairs. Stipules scarious, somewhat horny, fulvous, shining, 
4 lines long, very deeply six-cleft, the laciniz subulate, attenuate, unequal ; rarely 
undivided or shortly cut. Scape 4-8 inches long, sub-compressed and furrowed. 
Raceme 4-12 flowered ; pedicels, bracteate, the lower ones longest. Calyx obtuse, 
2-3 lines long. Petals dark purple. Anthers oblong. Capsule longer than the calyx, 
with obcordate valves. Big 
Z Sot. 2. Ptycnostigma, Pi. /. c. p. 92. Styles 3, bifurcate or bipar- 4 
tite, the branches flabellato-multijfid, the subdivisions gradually, and not 4 
greatly dilated from base to apex. (Sp, 7-8.) Z | 
7. D. pauciflora (Banks : DC. Prod. 1. p. 317) stemless ; leaves sessile, 
spathulato-cuneiform, 3-nerved; stipules none; scape ciliate, with 
glandular hairs, about one-flowered. Pl. lc. p. 202. D. grandiflora, 
Bartl. Linn. 7. p. 620. 
Var. 8. minor; all parts more slender, flowers smaller; pale or 
white. : 
Var. y. acaulis; scape shorter than the leaves, flowers smaller, — : 
whitish. D. acaulis, Thunb. Prod. p. 57. Fl. Cap. p. 278. a eA } 
Has. Wet places below the baths on the Zwarteberg, Caledon, Z. & Z. Zey. 1921. ay 
Paarlberg, Drege! W.H.H. 8, in the same places, Zeyher, 1920. y, Koude Bokke- eee || 
veld, beyond Eland’s kloof, Thunberg. (Heb. Thunb. Sond., T.C.D). aon 
Leaves 6-8 lines long, 1-3 lines wide, with bright red glandular hairs as long as ae. 
the breadth of the leaf. Scape erect, leafless, or rarely with one leaf, 3-6 inches tos 
high ; in 8, 1-2 inches ; in y, 1-4 lines long, never altogether wanting, glandular, - eae: | 
the glands more copious towards the summit, and about the calyx. Flower one, es 
sometimes two, and more rarely 3-4. Calyx obtuse, 2~3 lines long. Petals obovate- 
cuneate, sub-retuse, rosy, with a dark purple spot at the base ; in the varieties, paler 
or white, in a, 8-12 lines, in B & y. 4 lines long. Anthers ovate. Styles bifid, half 
as long as the petals ; the arms capillaceo-multifid. This has the habit. of D. tri- 
nervia & D. cuneifolia, but it is easily known by its larger flowers and multifid styles. 
8. D. cistifiora (Lin. Amoen. 6. p. 85) ; stem erect, simple, leafy ; leaves 
lanceolate or linear-lanceolate, the radical ones rosulate and subspathu- 
sy = ___ late ; flowers terminal, solitary or few, pedicellate. Burm. Afr., 75. f: 2° 
— Thewnb Fl. Cap. p. 275. Un. It MBG Z 129, Pl. lc.202." * 
refey Var. a. alba; flowers white, petals spotted at base, Thunb. I. c. 
 ihog |b Yan. 6, violacea flowers rosy, purple, or red, Z%unb. 1. ¢. D. viola- 
Has. Moist Sandy places ‘ioe Capetown town ; oe the Ca: Flats, & Hott. Holl. 
common. Also -river, Saldanha bay, Brackfontein, Chew: Klyn-river, Caledon ; 
under Vanstaadenberg Mts. Uitenhage. (Herb. Thunb., Sond. T.C.D. &c). 
tape 2O* fasciculate. succulent. Stem 3 inches to a foot high, covered with short, gan 
