Drosera.] XLiv. droserace^, ' 4G5 



filiform brandies. Seeds not very small, globose or slightly angular, tuber- 

 culate, 



W. Australia. Towards Cape Riche, Dnanmondy Wi Coll. iu 281. 



28. D. auriculataj>5^c/t/^.^ Planch, in Ann, Sc. Nat. ser. 3, ix. ^95. 

 Bulbous, with a slender stock. Leafy stem erect, simple or slightly branched, 

 \ to \\ ft, high, glabrous. Lower leaves at the summit of the stock either 

 all reduced to short linear scales, or forming a small rosette, with orbicular 

 almost reniform or peltate laminae and short petioles. Stem-leaves scattered, 

 peltate, broadly crescent-shaped or at least truncate on one side, the 2 angles 

 more or less produced into glandular-ciliate appendages, the petiole filiform, 

 Flowers several, white, in a terminal simple raceme. Pedicels at length ex-? 

 ceeding the calyx, the lower ones not much longer than the others. Sepals 

 attaining 2 lines or rather more in fruit, glabrous, entire or scarcely glandu- 

 lar-toothed. Styles divided from a little below the middle into a dense tuft 

 of short dicliotomous linear lobes. Seeds very numerous, narrow-linear, the 

 loose testa extending beyond the nucleus at one or both ends. — ^Hook. f. Fl. 

 Tasm. i. 30 ;' F.' Muell. PL Vict. i. 6L' 



M. S. Wales, _ Port Jactson, R. Brown, Sieier, ?^. 176 (with B.peUaia)^ and others ; 



northward to Clarence river, Beckler ; southward to Twofold Bay, F. Mueller. 



Victoria. Sandy poor pasture land and sterile ridges, not rare, T". Mueller. 



Tasmania. Abundant in rocky grassy heathy places throughout the island, /. 2). 

 Sooker, 



S.Australia- Bugle Range, F, Mueller; Encounter Bay, Wkiilaker. 

 Also in New Zealand. This species scarcely differs, except in the seed, from thosp forms 

 **f B.peltala ^\hicli have nearly glabrous sepals. 



29. D. peltata, Bin. in mild. Spec. PL i. 1546. Bulbous, with a 

 slender rootstock. Leafy stem erect or Hcxuose, \ to H ft. high. Lower 

 leaves at the summit of the rootstock usually rosulate, orbicular or reniform, 

 jiot peltate, 2 to 3 liucs diameter, on a broad petiole oftpn longer than the 

 ^mina; stem-leaves peltate, semiorbicular or broadly crescent-shaped, on 

 slender or filifonn petioles. Flowers white, in loose simple racemes. Pedi- 



^Is usually exceeding the calyx. Sepals attaining about 2 lines, or more in 

 'he large-flowci-ed specimens, ciliate-tootlied, and more or less clothed with 

 father long soft liairs. Styles short, densely dichotomous from below the 

 ^^tldle, the ultimate branches shortly lineur-cluvatp. Seeds very numerous, 

 ^mall, ovoid or globular, the testa not produced beyond the nucleus.— Sm. 



{fot. Bot. i, 79, t. 41; DC. Trod. i. 319 ; Hook. f. Fl. Tasm. i. 30 ; F. 



%ell. PI. Yict. i. 60 ; Ji, petiolaris, Sieb. PI Exs. (which includes also B. 

 ^^^^nculata) ; n. lunata. Hook. Ic. PI t. 54, and probably also Hamilt. 

 l^»^han,)inDC.Prod. i. 319. 



Jf'^' 'Wale^. Port Jaclisou, 22. Brown.Sieher, n. 176, and FL Mixt n, 523 (partly), 

 «ta others. 



^J^ictoria. Fertile pastures and meadows, not rare, F. Mueller. 



^asmania. Moist places and grassy lauds throughout the island, but not so common 



^i^'^^riculata, J.B.Hooker, ^ r u v /• pi i 



. "■ ^'■«^^/j. Stems slender. Flowers much smaller.— P. gracilu, Hook.t. in Flanch, 

 2; f''/^*- ^^^' 3, ix. 297, and Fl. Tasm. i. 30, t. 5.-Faramatta ^f'oc./^. ; mountam 

 istricts. Tasmania, /. D. Hooker. This form is represented by Labdiardicrc, PL Nov. Uoll, 

 ^Ub, f. 2. - 



^^'foliosa. Short and stout, with larcer leaves and fewer flowers.- A/o^io^^, Hoot. f. 



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