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as wide a range: D. pelata I have only found on the higher hills, but on these, both on the 
continent and in Ceylon: D. intermedia is a European plant, but the specimen figured in the. 
accompanying plate was procured from an Indian herbarium, but whether a native specimen or 
not is unknown. 
Prorertizs AnD Usss. These plants were formerly esteemed by alchymists, on account 
of the drops of pellucid dew, which they support on the glandular points of their hairs, to 
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Droseracee in the want of glandular pairs on the leaves. The following character of the 
sub-order was drawn up by Mr. Arnot and published in our Prodromus. 
Sub-order. Parnassiee (Arn.) Sepals 5 ; cestivation imbricative. Petals 5, alternate with 
the sepals, hypogynous. Stamens hypogynous, 10—20, some of them often sterile : anthers bilo- 
cular, bursting longitudinally. Ovary solitary, unilocular ; style none, and four sessile stigmas 
opposite the placente ; or one with a lobed stigma. Fruit a capsule, 1-celled, 4-5, valved 
and loculicide ; or indehiscent, and then the placente is only at the base. s numerous. 
Albumen 0. Embryoerect, or the radical pointing to the hilum. Bog plants. Leaves nearly 
all radical, without glandular hairs, 
north and south of India; always in boggy marshy places. The three species figured here are 
Propertizs anp Uses. Of the properties of this order little is known, the P. palustris, 
when fresh, is somewhat bitter, which it loses by drying, the infusion is also said to be rough 
and astringent to the taste, and strikes a deep red colour on being mixed with sulphate of iron. 
“In the northern parts of Europe and Siberia, the decoction is a popular remedy for retentions 
of urine and calculus disorders. 
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