Dfosera.'] XLiv. droserace^. 463 



again as tlie calyx. Anthers ovate. Styles 3, divided to the base into mi- 

 meroas filiform branches, slightly dilated and stigmatic at the end. Capsule 

 skrterthan the calyx. Seeds ovoid. — F. Muell. PI. Vict. i. 57, t. suppl. 6 ; 

 D. rosulata, Behr, in Linneea, xx. 628, not of Lehm. 



Victoria. Rather frequeut in the southern jiarts of the colony, F. Mueller ; 'Wimracra, 

 T)allachy. 



S. Australia. Rich boggy flats, entirely disappearing after the cessation of the winter 

 rains, Behr. 



The species is scarcely to he distinguished from B. rosulata, except by the venation of the 

 leaves. 



21. D. macrophylla, Lindl. Swan Riv. Jpp, 20. Bulbous with a slen- 

 der more or less scaly rootstock. Leaves at the end rosulate, obovate, taper- 

 ing at the base, thin, glandular, the veins few, diverging from the central 

 nerve much above the base, as in D. rosulata, and slightly reticidate, varying 

 from i to 2 in. long, including the very short petiole. Scapes or peduncles 

 several, each with 2 or 3 flowers, appnrently white and rather large, on 

 slender pedicels. Calyx glabrons, 3 to 3 lines long in flower, longer in fruit. 

 Styles 3, deeply divided into numerous filiform branches. Seeds nearly glo- 

 bular.— Hook. Ic. PI. t. 376 ] Lehm. in PI. Preiss. i. 251. 



W. Australia. Swan River, Drnmtnond, Isl Coll. and Srd Coll. n. 40 ; Princess 

 Koyal Harbour, Preiss, n. 1986. • 



22. D. squamosa, Benth. Bulbous, tlie old scales on the short slender 

 rootstock often numerous. Leaves forming a tuft at the end, as in the allied 

 species, but all reduced to erect or scarcely spreading, lanceolate, membranous 

 scales of 2 to 4 line's, acute or obtuse and scarcely ciliate, without any true 

 'amina. Scape solitary, 1 to 2 in. long, leafless, bearing a compact cyme of 

 numerous flowers, rather smaUer than those of D. erythrorhjza, but otherwise 

 resembling them. 



, W. Australia, Between Perth and King George's Sound, Preiss {Herb. Sander), 

 ^'^rvey; towards the Great Bight, Maxicell. It is possible that this may prove to be a 

 variety of L. erM,or/uza,leanng the same relation to.it as D. hulbosa to B. rosulata, with 

 '""leveloped leaves, but the difTcrence appears constant in all the specimens seen from dif- 

 'ereut collectors. 



,,, 23. D. erythrorhiza, Lindl. Swan Riv. App. 20. Bulbous, the stem- 

 ''ke rootstock slightly scaly. .Leaves rosulate at the end, very broadly obo- 

 ^'"te or almost orbicular, tapering at the base, thin, pennivemed but one vem 

 0[ nerve at each side starting from near the base, mostly t to 1 m. long, m- 

 eluding the very short petiole" Scape solitary, 1 to 3 m. long below the in- 

 florescence, bearing a rithcr loose cyme of numerous flowei^ apparently white. 

 Vis glabrous, not 2 lines long when in flower, above 3 lines m frmt. 1 e- 

 f^ longer. Anthers ovate. s!yles divided to the base mto numerous fili- 

 \^^ branches.-Lchm. in PI. Preiss. i. 251 ; D. prmulacea, Schlotthaub. m 

 ^onplandia, 



iv. 110. 



^•Australia. Swan W^.ev, Dnmmond, \sl Coll., Preiss, n.im, CoUie ; King 

 'O'-ge's Souud, Maclean ; between Perth and King George's Sound, Harve;,. 



24- D. stolonifera, Endl. in Hueg. Enunu 5. Bulbous, with few scales 

 '^ the stem-like rootstock. Radical leaves rosulate at the end, obova e. 

 '^Penng at tlie base, rarely above \ in. long, including the very short petiole. 



