Roridula.] POLYGALE® (Harv.) 79 
I inch long, striate, mostly with a deep-colored spot at base. Styles } as long as 
petals, deeply bipartite ; the arms fiabellately multifid. The smaller, few-leaved, less 
glandularly hairy specimens constitute D. speciosa. Presl. Bot. Bem. p. 14. PI. 
lc. p. 202; and the taller many leaved, 3-6 flowered, the D. helianthemum, PI. 1. 
€. D. 203, 
T. RORIDULA, Linn. 
Calyx 5-parted, equal. Petals 5, oval or oblong. Stamens 5 ; anthers 
adnate, opening by terminal pores. Ovary trilocular ; ovules solitary or 
in pairs, pendulous from the summit ; style simple, stigma capitate. 
Capsule 3 celled, 3-valved ; seeds solitary. DC. Prod. 1. p. 320. Endl. 
Gen. 5038. ; 
Suffruticose or shrubby, glandularly hairy, and viscid plants, natives of South 
Africa. The name is a diminution of ros, roris, dew : because of the dew-like drops 
that exude from the hairs of the leaves. &. dentata is hung up in country houses, 
(according to Thunberg) for the purpose of catching flies. ser re 
1. R. dentata (Lin. gen. p. 567); leaves linear-lanceolate, subulate, 
acuminate, pinnatifido-dentate, the teeth filiform, glandularly ciliate ; 
flowers racemose ; pedicels longer than the bract ; sepals lanceolate. 
acuminate, glandular at the margin, as long as the obtuse petals. Lam, 
Mi. 1. 141. DC. Prod. 1. 320. Pl. lc. p. 307. Drosera Roridula Thunb. 
Has. Mountain tops. Rodesand, Bokkeveld, and elsewhere, near streams, Thunb. 
Stellenbosch, on highmountains, between Nieuwekloof and Ylandskloof ; Clanwil- 
liam, on the Blauberg and near nips. Eat alley, Drege / (Herb. Sond. T.C.D). 
The whole plant viscid. Stem shrubby, 3-6 feet high, branches and ramuli 
_ brownish, glabrous. Leaves crowded at the end of the branchlets, one nerved, 
ciliate with long and short hairs, and pinnatifid with patent cilixform, 2-3 lineal 
subulate teeth, black when dry, 2-2! inches long, 11-2 lines wide at base. Racemes 
ending the branchlets, villous, 4-6 flowered ; pedicels 6-12 lines long, bibracteolate 
in the middle, and subtended by a leafy bractea of their own length or shorter. Sepals 
from an ovato-lanceolate base subulate, acuminate. Petals oval, pale rosy or white. 
Anthers oblong. Capsule valves ovate. 
2. R. Gorgonias (Pl. 1 c. p. 307); leaves linear-lanceolate, subulate, 
acuminate, entire, densely glandularly ciliate, racemes (in flower) spici- 
form. Pedicels more than twice as short as the bract ; sepals lanceolate, 
setaceo-acuminate, villoso-ciliate at the margin, longer than the acute 
ins, near Tulbagh ; and in similar situa- 
Herb. Sond). 
slender habit, leaves not pinnatifido- 
jicato-racemose inflorescence, and sepals without 
lly margind» The denuded branches bear at the summit 
inted leaves, 2} inches long, 1} lines wide at base. Flowering pedi- 
cels very short, Leachaolibe at base ; the fruiting ones longer (4 inch long). Capsule 
valves oblong. 
Orver XIII. POLYGALEZ, Juss 
(By W. H. Harver.) — 
olyg oe Jus. An. Mus. 14. p. 386. DC.Prod. x. p. 321. Endl. 
das Re otk iii. Polygalacee, Lindl. Veg. Kingd. No. exxxiii, : 
