Bmera.] XLiv. droserace.^. 457 



Victoria. Boggy places or mossy tanks of rivulets and pondSj at an elevation of 5000 

 to 7000 ft. ; alps of the Bogong and Mmiyang ranges, F. Mueller, 



Tasmania. Table Mountain, near the Derweut, E. Brown ; Logs, at an elevation of 

 3000 to 4000 ft., Mount Wellington, and Western Mountains, J. B. Hoolcer ; Mount 

 Lapeyrouse, Oldjield, Found also in New Zealand. F. Mueller describes the leaves as some- 

 times 4 in. long and ^ in. wide. I have never seen them anything near that size. 



3. D. glanduligera, LeJim. PagilL viii. 37, and PL Preiss. i. 252. 



II ^ f "I 11 1 J_ ^_* 1 1_^- Ll X.^h O .^W4 m«j-k v*j-k l*T ^ It 'V\ ^\C^ 



mes 

 base 



Leaves all rosulate, broadly obovate or orbicular, 3 to 3 or rarely 4 li 

 diameter, narrowed into a short petiole or the inner ones rounded at the b 

 or almost peltate. Stipules none. Scape leafless, I to li in. high, including a 

 loose raceme of G to 10 flowers, rarely reduced to 2 or 3. Pedicels recurved, 

 about as long as the calyx, glandular-ciliate as well as the rhachis. Sepals 1 to 

 ^ lines long. Petals \ed (or orange ?), not large. Styles 3, very slender, 

 divided to about the middle into 2 branches, sometimes again forked. Seeds 

 ovoid.— Planch, in Ann. Sc. Nat. ser. 3, ix. 206 ; F. Muell. Pi. Vict. i. 55. 



N. S. Wales. George's river, R. Brown ; Twofold Bay, F. 31'ueller. 

 Victoria. Heaths and pastures, seattered over the colony, F. Mueller, 

 S. Australia. Near Adelaide, Lyncdoeh valley, Barossa and Bugle ranges, etc., i*. 



Mueller, ' . . 



W. A,.=f^.iia, Bnnnwond, 2nd Coll. ft. 35; near Perth, Preiss, n. 1970 j HiU 



river, Oldjield; lluuipdcn, Clarke. 



pygmaea 



A minute species, said to be annual, 



I^ut evidently forming a hybernating bud in the centre of the rosette like tiie 

 other sneeies nf thp snotinn. Leaves rosulate, orbicular, \ to nearly 1 Ime 



diameter, on slender petioles, forming tufts of about \ m. diameter. _ btipuies 

 farious, deeply lobed. Scapes glabrous, filiform, \ to nearly 1 m. long, 

 i^aring a single minute terminal flower. Sepals 4, about \ i"e loug m 

 Sower, nearly 1 line in fruit. Petals rather larger. Styles 4 shghtiy c ub- 

 %ed and stigmatic at the end. Capsule 4-valved. Speds lew, rati.ei 

 l^rge in proportion, ovoid.— Planch, in Ann. Sc. Nat. ser. 3, ix. 280 ; Hook. t. 

 *!■ Tasra. i. 29 ; P. MucU. PI. Vict. i. 56. 



5; S. Wales. Eace grouuJ, Tarauiatta, H. Brown • Jcrvis's Bay, (^f'y- ^ ^ 



Victoria. Sandy hcath-grcmd, occasionally wet, at the base of the Sena Ean„c, i ort 

 ^»«i t, etc., F. Mueller ; near Slelbourue, Jdamson, Robertson. 

 Tasmania. Abu.Hi;nt in peaty aud saudy soil aloug the N.W. coast, J. B. Hooker. 

 "■ Australia. Encounlcr Bay, F. Mueller. 

 Also in New Zealand. 



\ D. platystigma, Lehn. PugilL viii. 37, and PI ^'f J^" j" ,f^J^; ^^jf 

 '"•aU delicate species. Leaves rosulate, nearly orbicular, U to 2 Imes cha- 

 fer, the petiole longer, broad and flat. Stipules scarious finely div ded, 

 J>e central tuft not exceeding the leaves. Scapes fihform, \ to 1^ m ong 

 •^fringatthe end 2 or 3 conn^aratively large flowery or rarely one oul or 



^^oi't pedicels. Sepals green, about 1 line long. Petals 3 t^^ ^ a« lon„, 

 Ming, of an orange c'^olour. Anthers small. Styles according to Lehmam^ 



'^luiple; according to Schlotthauber 2, simple; I fi"^, ^^ ,me i^do 

 -erof l^eiss's aJd 2 of Ohlfield's, 2 ^tyle. - . ^^ded ^ h^b. n.^ 



* Jliform branches, with rather large capitate stigmas 

 '^t'ler numerous OYides. ... 



W. AustraUa. King George's Souml, Oldjield, Preiss, n, 1994. 



