A RANGE EXTENSION FOR THE 
DROSERACEAE 
BY 
Ricuarp Evans SCHULTES 
A collection from Oaxaca is apparently the first oc- 
currence of the family Droseraceae in Mexico. 
Drosera sp. 
Mexico: Oaxaca, District of Choapam, on clay bank along the road 
to El Arenal, San Juan Lalana, long. 95°45’, lat. 17°25’, alt. 550 m., 
May 9, 1939, Schultes & Reko 836a (Herb. Gray). 
Although species of Drosera occur in nearly all parts 
of the world, the genus has not been reported from Mex- 
ico. It has apparently been represented in Central Amer- 
ica by only two species, both from British Honduras: 
Drosera brevifolia Pursh and Drosera capillaris Poiret. 
Schultes & Reko 836a is a sterile collection but when 
keyed out on vegetative characters (Diels in Engler 
Pflanzenr. IV. 112 (Heft 26) (1906) 62), it is clearly ref- 
erable to the subgenus Rorella DC. 
Because this collection extends the Droseraceae to 
Mexico, and for purposes of comparison with collections 
which may later be made, the vegetative characters of 
Schultes & Reko 836a are described. 
Plant a minute, scapose herb with a very short root- 
stock. Leaves more than twenty-five in number, pros- 
trate, tufted at the base in a rosette 8-10 mm. across, 
spatulate, 3-5 mm. long, 2—2.5 mm. wide (0.5 mm. wide 
at the base), heavily clothed with reddish glandular pu- 
bescence, in life exuding glandular liquid. Scape slender, 
straight, glabrous, naked, at least 2 cm. long (broken in 
specimens at hand). 
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