142 THE BOTANY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA. 
Peak. A small but very elegant species of this genus, with gooseberry- 
shaped hoary leaves, and stems from one to two feet high, bearing 
abundance of lilac flowers, grows on the left side of the brook-course 
called the ** Four-mile Gully," near the crossing-place, four miles to the 
south of the Murchison, and also on the right bank of the Murchison, 
about two miles below the mines. 
Of the curious Natural Order Droseracee, or Sundews, l found 
several fine plants. The most beautiful of the genus Drosera, which I 
have yet met with, resembles Ozalis versicolor in the colour of its 
flowers, they being white with a crimson eye, and they are beautifully 
variegated with crimson veins; these plants grow a foot or eighteen 
inches higb, growing in clusters of several together; the sepals are 
large and glabrons, and in this and the two following species they close 
over the flowers at night and during wet weather; the plant grows 
abundantly in a White Gum forest about four miles to the north of Dun- 
daragan. Another new Drosera, with bright scarlet flowers and gla- 
brous sepals larger than the petals, is found near the Yandyait Spring, 
to the east of the Hill river; this plant grows about a foot high. 
Neither this nor the preceding species have any tendency to creep or to 
support themselves ; but another nearly allied species, which agrees with 
them in the large glabrous sepals, is of very slender habit, climbing 
on everything it comes near: the flowers are white, or but slightly 
marked with red in one’ variety ; in another, which appears to differ 
from it by only growing a little stronger, they are always of a pale red 
colour. The white variety of this species grows near the first spring on 
the Hill, and on a sand-plain to the east of the spring ; the red variety 
grows on a sand-plain, near where the road first crosses the Hill river. 
A large rose-coloured species of this genus, which differs from D. ma- 
cranthum in having glabrous flower-stalks and but slightly villous 
sepals, grows on the first sand-hill the road passes over to the north of 
Dundaragan. I found another very remarkable species, agreeing with 
D. macranthum in size, climbing habit, and the form of its leaves, but 
having smaller and deeper rose-coloured flowers, and instead of glands, 
the flower-stalks and sepals are covered with long grey hairs; this plant 
grows in a swamp near the Yandyait springs, where the roots were 
under water when I found it; it also appears near the base of Mount 
Lesueur. This species and the following differ remarkably from other 
Droseras in their roots, which are naked white bulbs growing two to- 
