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supposed them to be shepherd's purse {Capsella bursa-pastoris), 

 which grows here plentifully ; and I am pretty certain this 

 plant is not of any described Australian cruciferous genera. I 

 have, however, now plenty of specimens, and shall send some 

 shortly to Kew for examination. 



Order XXVI. Droserace^. 

 Genus 1. Drosera, Linn. 



1. D. lig^ilata, sp. nov. 



Plant perennial, small, suberect, lin.-l-|in. high ; rootstock 

 thickish, hard, black, much branched ; branches finely and 

 thickly woolly-hairy. Leaves radical, few, erect and spread- 

 ing, thickish, linear, 9-10 lines long, j^oin. wide, red and 

 reddish-green, tip obtuse, subapiculate, knobbed on upper 

 surface, and shining, the apical half or more glandular above ; 

 glands long, erect, spreading, flat, white, their tips dark-red, 

 ciliate at margins, the central ones sessile ; petioles long, 

 bases widening, enwrapping, membranaceous, nerved. Scape 

 erect, slender, bare, as long as leaves or longer, rarely shorter, 

 black (also calyx), 1-fiowered (one specimen bore 2 scapes, 

 one being much smaller). Calyx longer than corolla, sepals 

 cut nearly to base, oblong, subacute. Corolla, petals oblong, 

 membranous, nerved, tips obtuse, pale-brownish (dried). 

 Stamens as long as petals, slender, spreadmg, curved ; 

 anthers elliptic, whitish or pale-yellow. Styles 3, stout ; 

 stigmas large, suborbicular, thickish. Ovary large, broadly 

 oblong, longer than calyx, shining. 



Hah. Euahine Mountain-range, in low-lying wet spots ; 

 1898: Mr. A. Olsen. 



Obs. A species having affinity with D. polyneura, mihi 

 (Trans. N.Z. Inst., vol. xxii., p. 460). 



2. D. atra, sp. nov. 



Plant small, perennial, erect, 1 in. high, bearing 7-8 leaves ; 

 rootstock thick, bushy, roots many, wholly blackish save 

 corolla. Leaves radical, sub 1 in. long, spathulate, limb 

 4-5 lines long, densely glandular the whole upper surface, 

 glands long and dark ; petioles slender, f in. long, nerved. 

 Scape erect, slender, bare, 1-flowered. Calyx-lobes cut one- 

 third length, large, broad, truncate, margins of tips serrulate- 

 crenulate. Corolla white, twice as long as sepals. Stigma 

 large, tuberculate. 



Hab. Euahine Mountain-range, east side, wet spots near 

 summits; 1898: Mr. A. Olsen. 



Obs. Only one specimen received — among other plantswz 

 situ — but a good one ; and, while near the preceding species, 

 bears differential characters. 



