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Seeds very numerous, attached in pairs on rounded 

 bases to the placentas. Fruit sheathed by the dried, 

 stretched, corolla tube. t. 104. Wight 111. t. III. 



On the higher slopes on rocky ground or poor soil. Near 

 Ootacamund it flowers December to February in masses on the 

 Dodabetta-Snowdon ridge, colouring it yellow. Occasional 

 flowers may be found up to July. Pulneys : on downs towards 

 Fort Hamilton, flowering December. Fyson 307, 676, 2166. 

 Bourne 922, 2601, 4667. 



KALANCHOE is the Chiiicse name of one species. 



DROSERACE/E. 



A small family of I ID species chiefly remarkable for 

 their folding or sticky leaves by v^hich small insects are 

 caught and digested. 



DROSERA. F.B.I. 54 I. 



Sundew. 

 Small herbs with perennial rootstock or tuber. All 

 the leaves as a rosette on the ground or some on a short 

 stem, covered with long stalked sticky glands. Flowers 

 in raceme-like scorpioid cymes. Calyx-tube short ; 

 sepals four or five suberect, imbricate. Petals as many 

 persistent. Stamens as many. Ovary free of the calyx, 

 one-celled with two to five styles. 



Species about 90 distributed all over the world except the 

 Pacific islands. 



The glands are of two kinds, long stalked glands which secrete a 

 sticky solution by which flies and other small winged insects are caught, 

 and which then by a bending of the stalk bring the insect close against 

 the leaf, and short ones almost sessile on the surface of the leaf.'' See 

 Darwin's Insectivorous plants. 



No stem. Leaves all on the ground forming a red rosette. 



D. burnianni. 

 Stem leafy, 3 inches, with peltate leaves. . . . . D. peltata. 



Droscra burmanni Vahl ; F.B.I, ii 424, I i ; common 

 Sundew. Flowering stems 3 to 6 inches, bare for the 

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