156 Dr Graliam'*s L'lst of' Rare Plants. 



small acute bractea, of nearly uniform reddish-lilac colour, only the base 

 of the lip and its ridges being white. Sepals (1^ inch long) lanceolato. 

 elliptical, nearly equal in size, the uppermost being rather the narrowest, 

 all attenuated at the base, and spreading. Lip without spur, much 

 broader than the sepals, the lateral lobes erect, the central broad-linear, 

 notched, plaited transversely ; disk with six waved, somewhat branched 

 lamellie, those nearest the sides being the shortest, and passing into di- 

 verging veins. Column more than half as long as the sepals, projecting 

 into the centre of the flower, somewhat clavate, rounded on the upper, 

 flat on the lower side, with a single tooth on each edge at its middle, a 

 small terminal tooth, and two others on each edge immediately below 

 the apex, the lower being rounded and decurrent. Anther-case rounded, 

 emarginate, 2-celled, each cell divided longitudinally. Pollen-masses 4, 

 parallel, each 2.1obed, laid along a thin plate, which is spread above the 

 moist stigmatic surface. Germen (14 inch long) twisted, spreading at 

 right angles to the rachis. 

 This handsome species was received at the Botanic Garden from Dr Fischer, 

 St Petersburgh, in 1830, without specific name, but marked as a native 

 of HaytL It has repeatedly since flowered freely in our stove, imme- 

 diately succeeding Bletia verecunda in the end of Maicb. 



-Drosera filiform is. 



D. filiformis ; scapis lateralibus, foliis lineari-filiformibus glanduloso-pi- 

 losis, dorso glabris canaliculatis, basi lanatis ; staminibus 5 ; stylis 8, 

 in paribus coalitis, basi. 

 Drosera filiformis, Rafinesque., in Need. Rep. 2. 360 — Ibid, in Besv. Journ. 



de Bot. 1. 227 Pursh, Fl. Amer. Sept. 1. 211 A''m^;. Gen. 1. 142 



Roem. et Schult. Syst. Veget. 6. 763 — De Cand. Prodr. 1. 31 8. ^Torr^y, 



Fl. of North, and Mid. Sect, of United States, 1. 332 Smeng. Syst. 



Veget. 1. 955 — Bech, Bot. of North and Mid. States, p. 42. 



Drosera tenuifolia, Willd. Enumer. p. 340 — Roem. et Schult. 1. 763 



Bigelow, Plants of Boston, p. 124. 

 Description — Primordial leaves deltoideo- subulate, glabrous ; secondary 

 leaves radical, linear, circinate, very woolly at their base, channelled and 

 glabrous behind, in front rounded and covered with spreading greenish 

 hairs, which support on their summit a. red gland, and exude a viscid 

 colourless juice. Scape lateral, with us always simple, green, glabrous, 

 about as long as the leaves. Spike racemose, unilateral. Pedicels and 5- 

 cleft persisting calyx covered with green glandular hairs. Corol'a gla- 

 brous, rose-coloured, more than twice as long as the calyx, marcescent; 

 petals 5, obovate, claws greenish. Stamens 5, scarcely longer than the 

 calyx ; filaments colourless ; anthers erect, oblong, yellow ; pollen gra- 

 nules round, yellow. Styles 8, spreading at their base in pairs, above 

 erect and clavate, colourless. Germen round, green, ovules numerous, 

 oblong. 

 This remarkable species was found by Mr James Macnab in a swamp about 

 ten miles above Tuckerton, New .Jersey, U. S., and introduced by him 

 into the gardens about Edinburgh in 1834. It flowered freely in the 

 stove at Dr Neiirs,at Comely Bank Nursery, and with us. I cannot he- 

 sitate to agree with those who consider Drosera tenuifolia of Willd., sy- 

 nonymous with Z>.^7«/brfwwof Rafinesque, which, being the earliesi pub- 

 lished name, I retain. 



Epacris microphylla. 



E. microphylla''; calycis foliolis obtusiusculis, tubum corolla? nequantibus ; 



foliis cordatis,acutis,pedunculum superantibus, lateribus erectis; spica 



apiciflora; ramulis pilosis. 

 Epacris microphylla, Br. Prodr. Fijr. Nov. Holland. 650. 



Description ^'S'^*'"^ erect ; branches ascending, slender, tortuous, hairj' 



Leaves cordate, spreading, shining, rigid, sides folded forwards, base em- 



