464 



XLiv. DROSERACEiE. [Droserct. 



From tliis rosette, in the ordiuary form, proceeds a leafless scape of 3 to 6 

 in., bearing a loose cyme of rather numerous flowers of the size and form of 

 those of D. erythrorJiiza, and 3 or 4 barren branches sliorter than the scape 

 eacli with several whorls of 2 to 4 leaves with a broadly obovate or orbicular 

 lamina, on a petiole sometimes longer than the lamina and very narrow, some- 

 times shorter and dilated. In other specimens the stem is continued beyond 

 the first rosette, producing a second or even a third rosette or tuft of leaves 

 with a more orbicular lamina and longer petiole than the lowest, the scape 

 and barren branches proceeding from the uppermost rosette. In others agaui 

 the lateral leafy branches terminate in a small cyme, or 3 or 3 scapes each 

 with a cvme proceed from the primary tuft, or rarely the side-branches are 

 again branched, but in all the forms assumed the leaves are all opposite or in 

 whorls or rosettes. Calyx mostly under 2 lines long in flower, nearly 3 hues 

 in fruit. Styles 3, Avith very numerous filiform branches and seeds ovoid as 

 in the preceding species.— Lehm. in PI. Preiss. i. 353 ; Hook. let. 389; 1). 

 porrecta, Lehm. Pugill. yiii._ 41, and PI. Preiss. i. 252; B. purpurascens, 

 Schlotthaub. in Bonplandia, iv. 111. 



W. Australia. Wet sandy places, Swau River, Preiss, n. 1084, 1983, _i)/««>W. 

 1*; Coll., and h-d Coll. n. 45, Oldjield, and others ; near iNlonut Wuljcnup. Preiss, n. 1^11 , 



Stirling Terrace, Mao-well. 



This may 



25. D.lramilis, Planch, in Am. Sc. Nat. ser. 3, ix. 300. lius niaj 

 prove to be a smaU variety of R .-itolomfera. It is much more slender, u^uauy 

 2 to 4 in. high including the cyme. AU the leaves including those ot tne 

 primai-j- rosette have a rather long petiole, with a small orbicular lamnia aoou 

 1 to \\ lines diameter, and the scapes are generally several fromthe tui . 

 Plowers as in D. stolonifera, but rather smaller, and the variatious m tlie a - 

 velopment of the lateral leafy branches are the same. 



W. AustraUa, JDrummoiid ; Murctison river, Oldjield. 



26. D. ramellosa, Lehm. Pugill. viii. 40, and PL Preiss. i. 252. Bul- 

 bous, with a slender rootstock. Leaves at the end rosulate, broadly obo\ _, 

 tapering at the base, 3 to 6 lines long including the broad petiole. ^ &cq^^_ 

 solitary or several, rarely above \ in. long, 1- or 2 -flowered, with 2 or • ^ 

 ral leafy shoots, very short at the time of flowering, but lengthening out ^^^ 

 or 3 in. Leaves on these shoots all alternate, broadly orbicular, not p j ' 



Styles 3, divided into very 



Planch, in Ann. Sc. Nat. ser. 3, ix. 301. ^ogQ. 



VB^. Australia. Sandy wet places near the lake in Rottcncst Island, Preiss, n. 

 Swan River, Oldjield, Drummond. 



21. -D. flabeUata, Benih. Bulb not seen, but probably as in the abe^ 

 species. Stems in our specimens simple or slightly branched, ^^^^' ^^g_ all 

 ft. high or rather more. Lower leaves rosulate, stem-leaves a C''^^^|. 

 broadly fan-shaped, not peltate, 2 to 4 lines diameter, narrowed "^jjj.^j_^.|^ing 

 broad petiole. Flowers rather small, numerous, in a termina ' i- ijtiy 



cyme. Sepals attaining 3 lines or rather more after flowering, o^^^^ 

 toothed, glabrous. Styles divided nearly to the base into very n 



