146 HALORAGIACE/E. 



lower four-fifths. Leaves in a rosette i inch across, 



very red and glistening, fringed with long-stalked glands, 



cuneate or spathulate ; with linear stipules half as long 



as the stalks. Flowering stem 3 to 6 inches : flowers 



in a close one-sided raceme-like scorpioid cyme, white. 



Sepals entire covered with minute papillae, t. 105. 



Wight 111. t. 20 ex. styles ; Ic. t. 944. 



In damp places common. Everywhere from near Madras 

 to the top of these hills. 



Gen. Dist. All over India. Bourne 303. 



Drosera pcltata Smith ; var lunata ; F.B.L ii 424, 1 3 ; 

 Moon-leaf Sundew ; a delicate herb distinguished among 

 all our plants by the roundish crescent-shaped leaves, 

 Ye inch across, fringed by long-stalked glands, and 

 attached by stalks of J^ inch to the slender almost 

 unbranched stems. Perennial by means of a series of 

 root-tubers.* Stem 3 to 12 inches, very slender often 

 red. Rosette (? annual) leaves of the young plant soon 

 disappearing so that only stem leaves remain. Stalk of 

 stem leaves J^ inch, blade Ye Xo% inch, with fringe of 

 long-stalked glands, often red, very sticky. Sepals not 

 fimbriate, t. 106. Wight 111. t. 20. 



On the open downs everywhere, more especially in damp 

 spots. Boui'fie 924. 



Distributed throughout India. 



HALORAGIACE/E. 



Weak water or land plants with opposite or whorled 



exstipulate leaves, and small flowers with the parts 



in fours or by reduction fewer, and an inferior ovary 



containing typically four seeds. 



Species about 80, all over ihe world. In Europe Marestail, 

 Ger. Tannenweudel ; Water milfoil, Ger, Tausendblatt, Fr. 

 Mille feuille d'eau ; and Hornwort Fr. Cornifle. 



* Clarence in manuscript note in Herb. Kew, 



