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slightly increasing the size in fruit ; tube short, adherent to the base of 

 the ovary, flatly depressed ; sepais unequal in size and larger in the lower 

 ones, patent and then more or less reflexed, ovato-lanceolate or subulato- 

 lanceolate, obtuse or acute at the apex, with 3 nerves connected in the 

 upper portion, the lowest one about 3^-4J mm. long and the upper ones 

 about 2^-3 mm. long in flower. Petals 5, white, thin ; the lower 2 much 

 larger, pendulous, apparently unequal in size, linear or linear-lanceolate and 

 often somewhat falcate, gradually attenuated towards both ends, acuminate 

 with an acute tip, sessile, entire, with veins running upwards, the larger 

 one about l|-2 cm. long and the other 11-1 J cm. long; the upper 3 

 patent, broadly ovate, acute or apiculate at the apex, rounded and very 

 shortly unguiculate at the base, entire, obscurely loose-veined, yellow in the 

 basal portion. Stamens 10, patent, lunger than the upper petals, glabrous; 

 filament linear-filiform, attenuated towards the base, about equal to or 

 longer than sepals in length, 4-5 mm. long; anther minute, ovato-oval, 

 light rose. Ovary broadly ovoid, divided into 2 parts above and attenuated 

 to the styles, glabrous, yellow and nectariferous on the upper side ; styles 

 2, erect, gracile, shorter than the ovary; stigma minute, obliquely subcapi- 

 tate ; ovules numerous, minute, oblong. Capsule broadly conico-ovoid, 

 about 4 Turn, long, the upper half divergent with gracile persistent styles. 

 Seeds minute, numerous, ellipsoid, darkish brown, disparsed with minute 

 sessile dark granules. Flowers April-June. 



Norn. Jap. Haru-yukinoshita (Spring Saxifraga). 



Add. Bob. Prov. Musasiii : Tokyo, cult, (T. Maleinol May 1904); 

 Prov. Hida : Yamaguchi in Ono-gori, spont. (T. Sakanel no. 155, 190-1); 

 Prov. Etchlj : Sasahara-mura, spont. (Y. Hasegaica ! no. 35, May 7, 1904). 



Drosera spathulata Labill. 'Nov. Holl. PI. Spec. I. (1804) p. 79, 

 tab. 106, fig. 1 ' ; Bchult. Syst. Veg. VI. (1820) p. 762 ; DO. Prodr. I. 

 (1824) p. 318; Spreng. Syst. Veg. I. (1825) p. 955; Planch, in Ann. Sc. 

 Nat. Ser. 3, IX. (1848) p. 193; Bot. Mag. tab. 5240; Hook. 111. Handb. 

 N. Zeal. Fl. p. G3 ; Benth. Fl. Austral. II. p. 459 ; O. Kuntze, Eev. Gen. 

 PI. I. p. 233. 



Drosera propinqua E. Cunn. ' in Ann. Nat. Hist. IV. (1840) p. 109.' 



Drosera Loweirii Hook, et Arn. Bot. Beech. Voy. (1841) p. 167, 

 tab. 31 ; Benth. Fl. Hongk. p. 130, et Fl. Austral. II. p. 460, in nota 

 sub D. spathulata ; Forbes et Hemsl. in Journ. Linn. Sec. XXIII. p. 289. 



Drosera Brumanni DC. Prodr. I. p. 318, quoad sp. chinense, nou Vahl. 



