460 Transactions. — Botany. 



Ohs. A very interesting little species, in size and habit of 

 growth allied to C. nana, Col., from the same mountainous 

 locality ; but widely different from that species in several im- 

 portant characters. Its very peculiarly-shaped and unique 

 pod distinguishes it from all its known congeners. 



Order XXVI. Deoseeace^. 

 Genus 1. Drosera, Linn. 

 1. Z>. polynemri, sp. nov. 



Plant, small somewhat tufted, erect, lin.-2^in. high; root- 

 stock woody, thickish, vertical, lin.-2in. long, black, with 

 many irregular spreading w'wy rootlets below ; sometimes two 

 plants arise from one stock, each bearing 1-3 flowers and 3-7 

 leaves. Leaves of two forms, their upper surfaces above the 

 middle and their margins glandular ; glands not crowded, 

 flat, long and patent at margins, the single apical one more 

 than two lines long, verj- short on lamina, their tips elliptic, 

 smooth, dark-red ; the outer leaves narrow oblong-ovate 

 spreading, usuall\' deflexed from junction witli petiole, 

 lin.-l|^in. long, 4 lines wide, many-nerved, tip very obtuse 

 rounded, base tapering ; petiole very broad, sub 3 lines, 

 5-nerved, conduplicate, clasping ; the inner leaves longer, 

 linear, 1-^ lines wide, erect. Scape erect, 14in.-2in. long, 

 shorter or longer than leaves, 1-flowered, with a long 

 linear basal leaf (or bract) fin.-lin. long, glabrous, eglandular, 

 margins closely incurved, tip obtuse, and a minute linear 

 bracteole near the top of scape. Calyx-lobes no tcut to base, 

 sub-oblong-obovate, 3-nerved, tips obtuse, toothed. Corolla 

 4 lines diameter, scarcely longer than calyx, not spreadiing, 

 pale yellowish-white, very membranous ; petals narrow 

 obovate, tips slightly obtuse, margins irregular, 3-veined, veins 

 dark, branching. Stamens 5, much shorter than corolla ; 

 filaments flat, 1-nerved ; anthers orbicular, bright-yellow, 

 perigynous between petals. Styles 4, each nearly 1 line long, 

 thick, spreading ; stigmas large, globose, fimbriate ; fimbriae 

 branched, their tips globular. Ovary narrow oblong-obovate, 

 black, shining, 3-valved, minutely papillose, much longer 

 than corolla. 



Hah. Swampy spots, base of Mount Tongariro, County of 

 East Taupo ; 1889 : Mr. H. Hitl. 



Obs. I. At first sight, and without close examination, thi» 

 little plant may easily be taken for its near ally D. arctiiri. 

 Hook., which it much resembles ; but it possesses many grave 

 and different characters — in its two forms of leaves, its 

 scape-bracts, its smaller membranous flowers with differently- 

 shaped lobes to both calyx and corolla, and its 4 separate 

 styles. 



