l)rosera,'\ XLiv. droserace-^e. ^ 469 



ceeding the calyx or not half as long again. Filaments more or less dilated 

 uiifler the anthers. Styles short, divided from the middle into exceedingly 

 numerous short dichotomous branches forming dense globular tufts^ often not 

 longer than the entire portion. 



W. Australia. King George's Soundj Collie^ between ]Moore and Miirchison rivers, 

 Brummond, Gik Coll. n. 109. The sj)ecimens from both localities very simihir. 



Var. minor. Leaves iiiid flowers much smaller, but the same style; filaments rather less 

 dilated. — Between iloore and Murdi5son rivers, Brummond, dth Coll. n. 1 10. 



40. D. heterophylla, Lindl. Swan Riv. App. 20. Bulbous, with a 

 slender stook, usually enclosed in mliiicTOus old' scaly remains of leaves. 

 Leafy stem simple, slender, glabrous, the short narrow-linear or subulate 

 scales or leaves at the base more numeroils than in other species ; stem-leaves 

 on slender petioles, usually small, peltate orbicular or slightly truncate and 

 2-angledon one side. Flowers solitary or rarely 2 or 3 in a simple raceme, 

 large. Calyx-lobes usually 8, 2 to 3 fines long, nearly glabrous, fringed with 

 prominent glands, but not'ciliate; Petals 8, twice as long as the calyx-lobes, 

 Harrow, not so readily twisting up together after flowering as in other species. 

 Styles repeatedly forked into very numerous short slender branches, stigmatic 

 at the end, forming a short very dLemQlxiii.—Sondera Freissii, Lehm. Pugill. 

 ^iii- 45, and PL Preiss. i. 256 (in iiower) ; S. macraiit/ta, Lehm. \. c. {m 

 fruit). 



W.Australia. J'rom ifing George's Sound to Swan Kiver and Champion Bay, 

 Brummond, Ut Coll. and 2nd Coll. n. 18, Preiss, n. 1989, Oldjield, and others. 



41. D. Banksii, B. Br. in DC. Prod. i. 319. Stem filiform, leafy, 

 glabrous, 2 to 4 in. long, very slender at the base, but possibly forinmg a bulb 

 as iu the preceding species. Leaves all scattered, peltate, orbicular, on slen- 

 der petioles, the lower ones with a lamina of k line diameter, on a petiole of 

 1 to 2 lines, the upper ones twice as large or rather more. Stipules to some 

 W the upper leaves very thin, narrow, soiirious and deciduous. Flowxrs tew, 

 small, ill a simple raceme like the smaller specimens of D. peltala. 1 edice s 

 "»;"% as long as the calyx. Sepals villous, 1 to U l\"«s long. t;etals 

 ^Pi'eading, lengcr than the calyx. Styles (not seen by myself and impertectly 

 oWrved by Planclion) 3, divided to'the base into 2 deeply 3-hd branches.- 

 ilanch. in Ann. Sc. Nat. ser. 3, ix. 291. 



Queensland. Endeavour river. Banks and Solander. 



2. BYBLIS, Saliab. 



■ ^'alyx-segments or sepals 5. Petals 5, broad, oblique, united i^ « ring at 

 ^^' base, contorted-i.nbricate. Stamens 5, hypogynous, often decimate , 



i 



^.'Itliers attached by the base, opening at the end uv oblong pores or imt 

 Jts. Ovary 2-cellJd. with se,;eral ovules in each cell attached to the diss- 

 ent; style undivided, with a terminal oblong- or cap; ate _ st.grmiCa,- 

 ^"le son^ewhat compressed, 2.ceUed, opening in 2 vah^. bonnng the d.ssep - 

 ;^^t m their centre. Seeds oblong, albuminous Embryo .-Herbs 

 ^^'•^ or less glandtdar-pubesccnt. Leaves linear-subulate "^^^^^^ ^"^^Z^"^"" 

 ''«". without stipules. Peduncles axillary, bearing a single blue flo«er. ^ 



"^^^ genus is linntcd to Australia. It is very anoiualous iu the Order, with which it « 



