456 ' XLiv. .BROSERACE^.. [Drosera. 



Styles divided iuto very uumerous dichotomous branches. 

 Flo'.vers in a loose cyme or corymbose panicle. 



Glabrous, usually simple and erect. Leaves rather large 36. D* Bttegelu. 

 More or less u;laudalar-pubescent, usually flexuose or 



twining. Leaves small . 37- Z). macrauiha. 



Flowers few, iii a simple or very rarely once-forked loose ^ 



raceme 38. Z>. Menziesti. 



Styles divided ir.to very numerous very short branches, form- 

 \\\^ a dense clabosc mass. Filaments dilated upwards. Se- 

 pals rather large, usually glabrous and entire 39. i>. cahjcina. 



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Sect. T. Eorella, 7)C.— Stock not bulbous, the upper end pereniiial 

 Scopes leafless, except in D. indica. Stipules often present, scarious. Styles 

 usually simple or divided iuto 2 simple branches, rarely dichotomous. 



L D. indica, iz'™.; DC. Prod. i. 319. Leafy stems, from a few in. 

 to 1 or nearly 2 ft. long. Leaves linear, acuminate, often several in. long, 

 fringed with tlie glundular cilise of the genus, either quite to tlie base or 

 leaving a short glabrous petiole, often half stem-clasping, but not sheathuig. 

 Stipules none. Plowers in loose, lateral, often leaf-opposed racemes, short and 

 few -flowered, or long with more numerous flowers, glabrous or glandular- 

 pubescent. Pedicels longer tlian the calvx. Sepals narrow, about Jahn^s 

 lonii- in flower, 2 lines in fruit. Anthers oblong-linear. Styles 3, divided to 

 tlie1)ase, each into 2 filiform branches, dilated and stigmatic on the inner side 

 at tlie end. Seeds obovoid, with a close testa.— Planch, in Ann. Sc. JNat. 

 scr. 3, ix. 204 ; Wight, 111. t. 20 C. ; F. MuelL PI. Vict. 'i. 58 j B, serpens, 

 Planch. 1. c, 



PT. Australia. Islands of the Gulf of Carpentaria, R. Brown ; Upper ^^^^^^^'^J^ "'7' 

 F. Mueller; Port Essinglon, Armstrong; Attack Creek, irBotiaU Shiarfs ^fP^^^^^^^^ 



Queensland. EnOcavour river, R. Broivn, A. Ctmning/iam ; Shoalwater ^*'*>'' ^^1^^ 

 Eiiy, i2. Brown; Port Curtis, M'GiUivrai/ ; Rockhampton, Thozei ; Broad Sound; ^^ 



viun. 



Victoria. ]Moist gravelly places round frcsh^Yate^ lakes, near Eustonc, on the ^lur y. 



rare, F, Mueller, 



*W^. Australia. Murcliison river, Oldfield. . , . „,wialso 



Coiiimou in East India aud the Archipelago, extending as far as Amoy, m ^^^"";,y^,j^,rcr 



iu various parts of tropical Africa. Tlie Australian specimens are usually i:irger,\M ^ ^^r^^ 



racemes and lare;er flowers tlian the Indian ones, but not always so, aud there is n 



diiTeroucc. 



Stock 



d Ic. Fl. t 56. 



t 



tlie old leaves, the plant 



or rarely nearly 3 in. long and 1 to 2 lines broad in the larger spec;'|ien , 

 others not half that size, the glandular cilia? extending from the "^^"'^g^^Jg 

 wards, narrowed below iuto a glabrous petiole, sheathing at the base. ^^J^^ 

 1-flowcrcd, usually exceeding the leaves, bearing occasionally a suia 

 bract above the middle. Calyx 3 to 4 lines long. Petals obovate, 

 large. Styles 3, undivided, short and thick, each with a broad capitate a ^^^ 

 reniform stigma.— Planch, in Ann. Sc. Nat. ser. 3, ix. 1S9 ; liooiv. . 



Tnsm. i. 28 ; F. Mucll. PI. Vict. i. 57. 



. S. 'Wales. Mount Kosciusko, F. Mueller, 



