^466 



XLiv, DHOSEKACE^. IDrosera 



i„ Planch. Ann. So. Knl. ». 3, i,. 298, »„ Jl- J-jm j^f. '• '-<''""' P'""' "' 

 Eella,al, /. M.eller ; ma,.l>, P'f ".J»"'\»i h L ttf \X*:. to S. China, for I can 



specimens, and are not always constant m the Australian ones. Ihc sepal. 



The rosulate leav 

 found in some ^ 

 and styles are the same in both. 



Ne 



Bulbous, 



twining, 1 to H ft. high, glabrous or slightly g^^^^'l^^J^^-P^^^^^^"* ""^'Iml 

 nflorercence. No rosulate leaves ; lower leaver -^^M-'^ to sn.n 1 u^l 



linear acute scales; stem-leaves ,ou slender petiples, peltatp, ^ ««^[ ^^^3 ^^^^^ 



shaped, with 2 acuminate ciliate angles, ?^^^{^^"^!^^. ^™f ' ^tnf nLe o^ 

 broad. Flowers rather large, red or purple n the original form, not numero . 



in a loose cyme or in a once-hranchcd or simple ^^f "^J'J^^^^^^J^^^^^ 

 eels long. Sepals above 2 lines long in flower, often 3 "^«^.^"/lf .' ^^^^^^^^^^ 

 toothed, glandnlar-ciliate, villous outside. Styles deeply ^mded into vmj 

 numerous filiform slightly dichotomous branches. Seeds very numeious, 



narrow-linear. ' „.^ ^^^^ 



W.Australia. Princess Royal Harbour, Pr^fi^, ''• -^PJ/^ ^7/ « m • Champion 

 Oldfield; between Moore and xMurchison rivers, Drummoud, &(A toll- n. 119, 



^V.fj;fAurea. lowers yellow or straw-colour, but^ wi^out -I "Jf £ -^ 

 ^IpMrea:Le\^m. Pugill. viii. 43, au.l PI. Prei.s. i;^254.-Kmg Georg s feoana 

 joining districts, R. Brown, King, Preiss, n. 1981, Ohljield ; Vasse river, Oldjieia. 



31. D. gigaxitea, Lindl. Swan Rk. App. 20. Probably 1^^|^^;^;^ ; j^j 

 stock slender at the base, usually thickened at the crown and often co ^^^^_ 

 with a dense mass of old remains of leaves. Leafy stem tall, e ec 



ing upwards, glabrous. Lower leaves reduced to If ^^«,f'-'t7nt shaped, 

 tered scales ; stem-leaves on slender petioles, peltate, broadly crestL ^^1^^^ 

 with 3 prominent subulate-acuminate angles, 2 to. 3 hnes diameter. .^^^^ 



small, white, in a large loose divaricately l^ranchcd terminal V^'^f^ gtyies 

 longer than the calyx. Sepals 1 to H l^^es Ion-, entire, ^j^^'^l'i, dense 

 short and thick, shortly divided into numerous branches *?""' V^^ testa, 

 almost globular mass. Seeds obovoid or almost globular, witn a 



Lehin. PL Preiss. i. 255 ; Planch, in Ann. Sc. Nat. ser. 3, ix.^-^ • ^^^^^ 



[V. Australia. Wet bogs and swamps, Swan Elver, Vrummond, l^t ^^ •' 

 «. 1991, Oldfield; Blackwood river, Oldfield. ^ jj^^^^,^ 



32. D. myriantha, Tlanch. hi Ann. Sc. Nai. ser 3, ^'^■?V:{ branched, 

 with a slender rootstock. Leafy stem slender, simple or sii^u : ^^^^ ^^^^^^ 

 under 1 ft. high, glabrous. Lower leaves few, reduced to smau i > ^^^^^ ^.^^ 

 scales ; stem-leaves on filiform petioles, peltate, orbicular, noi^^^ .^^^ 

 meter. Flowers apparentlv white, smaller than m any <>JJ'^'^ ^ ,' ' Sepals 

 rather numerous in a branched cyme. Pedicels as long as ttie c^^_^^ ^^^^^^^^ 

 scarcely 1 line long, acute, minutely glandular-notched, mai ^^ ^ ^^^^i^ 

 Styles 3, divided to the base into 2 forked branches or uiio ^ j the 

 cues. Seeds numerous, oblong-linear, the testa produced j 

 tiucleus. 



. W. Australia, Brummond. 



