CoLENSO. — On neiv PhcBuogamic Plants. 81 



(but rarely) in short sub-racemes. Peduncle and pedicels 

 slightly pubescent ; pedicels stout, Yo^n. long, bibracteolate 

 at base of calyx, a bracteole at the middle and another at 

 the base (both peduncle and pedicels lengthen in maturing 

 fruit), bracteoles small, triangular, reddish-brown, and scarious, 

 margins laciniate. Calyx glabrous, cup - shaped, acutely 

 toothed, edges slightly ciliate. Corolla pale lilac with darker 

 veins, many-nerved ; nerves forked at tips ; standard oblate- 

 orbicular, 2h lines across, with a central darker blotch, largely 

 emarginate, unguiculate ; wings broadly oblong, 2 lines long, 

 obtuse, auricled ; keel broadly oblong-reniform, 2 lines long, 

 tip rounded very obtuse. Anthers sub-rotund ; style papillose 

 at top ; stigma capitate. Pods single, or 2, 3, 4, or 7 together, 

 -elliptic, dimidiate, 3-4 lines long including short beak, glabrous, 

 pale-green when young, grey at maturity, blackish in age, 

 veined ; beak stout, subulate, straight, acute, ^^rin. long (longer 

 and stouter in age) ; replum very stout and irregularly rugulose 

 close within and araund its border, which sometimes extends 

 to its beak ; pod internally thinly lined with greyish wool. 

 Seed usually 1, large, j^in. long, reniform, turgid, shining, 

 dark-yellow mottled with purple streaks ; sometimes 2 small 

 seeds, irregular in shape and somewhat obtusely triangular, as 

 if the one reniform seed had been divided transversely into 

 two. 



Hab. On the banks of streamlets, woods south of Danne- 

 virke, County of Waipawa ; 1887-88, flowering in January : 

 W. C. 



Obs. This, as a species, seems very distinct from all the 

 other known ones; probably its nearest ally is G.flageUiformis, 

 Col. 



Obder XXVL— DEOSERACEiE. 



Genus 1. Drosera, Linn. 



1. D. riunutula, sp. nov. 



A very small stemless species, of close gregarious habit. 

 Eoots long (2in.-3in.), straight, vertical, wiry, black, very 

 hairy, 2-3 to a plant. Leaves reddish-brown, rosulate, 

 crowded (8-20) in 2-3 rows, spreading flat on the ground, the 

 whole plant ^in.-^-in. (rarely fin.) in diameter ; leaf with petiole 

 about 3 lines long, the lamina 1 line long, orbicular and sub- 

 orbicular-spathulate, veined, the whole upper surface glan- 

 dular; margins largely ciliate-fringed, the cilia^ longer than 

 leaf, flat, veined, subulate, wavy, with dark (almost black) 

 knobbed tips, clavate and sub-orbicular and apparently solid, 

 extending round lamina at its base ; the glands on centre of 

 leaf sessile, blackish : petioles dark blackish-gi-een, 2 lines 

 long, flat, wide, glabrous, largely w^inged at bases ; wings 

 reddish-brown, membranous, margins entire, acute, and finely 



