384 Transactiois. — Botany. 



petiolulate ; petiole iin.-lin. long, hairy, base much dilated, 

 with a pair of long spreading linear bracts (or stipules) at 

 upper corners — one at each corner. Peduncle naked, stout, 

 erect, striate, sub-angular, red, 2|in-3iu. long, hairy ; hairs 

 white, appressed ; sometimes a very small leafy bracteole 

 midway, very rarely two. Heads globular, lin. diameter. 

 Flowers dark-gi-een ; calyx-tube densely woolly-hairy ; hau'S 

 long, white, 4 erect stout spreading spines, 1 at each corner, 

 dark-red, glabrous, shining, 6-6 lines long, tips barbed, barbs 

 white, with 4 (or more) rays. (The spines at flowering are 

 shorter than the corolla, but soon gain their full length.) 

 Petals 4, large, glabrous, oblong-lanceolate, spreading, }.3- 

 nerved, tips thickened, sub-acute and sub-apiculate ; margins 

 and tips becoming red in age. Stamens 2, slender, curved, 

 largely exserted (also style) ; anthers small, globular, bright- 

 yellow. Style large, stout, dilated, pinnatifid-plumose. Re- 

 ceptacle very small, sub-hemispherical, muricated. 



Hub. On open plains, Tahoraiti, south of Dannevirke, 

 County of Waipawa ; 1886-90 : W. C. 



Obs. A species remarkable for the dark-green colour of its 

 leaves and large petals ; also, the deep red (port-wdne colour) 

 of its large heads of stout glabrous ghstening spines, which 

 give it a striking specious appearance, and serve to distin- 

 guish it from its congeners at first sight. It also grows much 

 more compactly together than the allied indigenous common 

 species, and is a scarcer plant. 



Order XXVI. DKOSERACEiB. 

 Genus 1. Drosera, Linn. 

 1. D. flagellifcra , sp. nov. 



Plant small, slender, gregarious, perennial ; roots long, 

 thickish. Leaves few from one plant radical, erect, l^in.-2in. 

 long, scarcely 1 line wide, linear very acuminate, forked, often 

 twice forked ; circinnate in growth, glabrous below, very glan- 

 dular above ; glands red, sessile on upper surface, with long 

 irregular stalks at margins, and very long at tips of leaves. 

 Petiole slender, 2in.-3in. long, glabrous, reddish-green. Scape 

 very slender, 8in.-10in. high, erect, glabrous, red. Flowers at 

 top, 9-12 in a small branched cyme of 2-4 branchlets, usually 

 3 on a branch ; pedicels 2-3 lines long, with a long linear 

 bracteole, its tip truncate and laciniate, curled and aj^pressed 

 at the base of each branchlet. Calyx half as long as corolla, 

 dark-green (black when dried), finely muricated or sub-rugu- 

 lose ; lobes oblong, truncate, largely and unequally laciniate, 

 3-nerved, nerves much-bi'anched above. Corolla spreading, 

 flat, 8 lines diameter, white (when fresh) ; petals distant, 

 slightly concave, very membranous, sub-obovate, much trun- 



