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donnent naissance & des racines adventives et deviennent le 
point de départ d’une végétation qui ne s’arréte plus (par 
allusion sans doute a la aeiiiount? de réfréner la langue 
des créoles ! 
Description.—B. calycinum is a tall, fleshy, erect, suf- 
fruticose plant, having thick, ovate-crenated leaves, consisting 
of one large leaflet and two smaller ones; petiole and margin 
of leaf purple ; blossom a terminal panicle of pendulous, tubular, 
yellowish-red flowers; the leaves have a strongly acid and 
_ astringent taste. 
K. laciniata has decompound and pinnatifid leaves, the 
segments ‘oblong-acute, coarsely toothed, upper ones nearly 
entire ; sepals lanceolate-acuminate, spreading ; cyme panicled ; 
flowers yellow. K. spathulata has the lower leaves commonly 
3 to 4 (sometimes J0) inches long besides the petiole; upper 
leaves (with the petiole) often 3 to 4 inches long by 3 broad, 
frequently sessile. Flowers clear yellow. 
Chemical composition.—The fresh leaves of B. calycinum 
contain in 100 parts:— 
Water .. So 37 
Organic matter ... Mise tervoedetjses sees < O44 
Mineral matter .. 1°51. 
They give up to alcohol chlorophyll, fat, and an organic 
acid of a yellow colour striking an olive green tint with ferric 
_. chloride. Water extracts acid tartrate of potassium, sulphate 
of calcium and some free tartaric acid. Calcium oxalate occurs 
in the residual fibrous portion of the leaves. 
DROSERACEZ. 
7 DROSERA PELTATA, Sm. 
_ Hab.—Himalayas and Nilgiris, distributed in Malay Ar- 
< chipelago. Peltate Sundew (ng.), Rossolis en bouclier (Fr.). . 
_ History, Uses, &C.—The Sundews are small herbaceous __ 
pee growing in grass land, andl are interesting from the fact 
