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]. DROSERA, Linn. 



Perennial herbs, scapic;erous or willi a leafy stem, graiidular-liairv. 

 Ijeaves alternate or rosnlate, nsunlly circinate in vernation ; stipules 

 or scarious and adnate to the petiole. Flowers white or rosy, solitary, 

 racemose, cymose or corynibose. Calyx free from the ovary, 4-8-partite, 

 imbricate. Petals 4-8, hvpogynous or scarcely perigynous, marcescent. 

 Stamens as many as the petals and inserted with them. Ovary free, 

 ovoid or globose, l-cclled ; ovules numerous, parietal ; stvles 2-5. 

 Capsule loculicidally 2-5-valved. Seeds numerous in the Indian species, 

 obovoid-ellipsoid ; testa black, smooth, reticulate, not lax. — DiSTitiB, 

 Throughout the world, except Polynesia ; very numerous in Australia; 

 species 100. 



Leaves all I'adical, rosulate, spathulate-cuueate 1. D. Bitrmanni. 



Leaves cauline, linear 2. D. iyidica. 



1. Drosera Burmanniy Void, S;/mh. v. 3 (1794) p. 50. Stem 

 scarcely any. Leaves :f-| in. long, all radical, forming a close rosette 

 on the ground, spathulate-cuueate, upper surface clothed with numerous 

 gland-tipped tentacles longest at the margin; petioles flat; stipules 

 nearly as long as the petioles, scarious, cut into long slender segments. 

 Scapes 1-3, erect, glabrous, 2-8 in. long, from the axils of inner leaves. 

 Plowers about 8-20, in secund racemes occupying the upper fourth 

 of the scape only ; pedicels i— 1- in. long, slender, glabrous. Calyx 

 ■^-i in. long, papillose ; segments linear-oblong, obtuse. Petals white, 

 slightly longer than the calyx, spathulate. Styles 5, undivided. 

 Capsules 5-valved. Seeds numerous, minute, black, reticulate. Fl. B. I. 

 V. 2, p. 424; Grab. Cat. p. 11; Dalz. & Gibs. p. 12; Wight, Icon, 

 t. 944 ; Trim. Fl. Cevl. v. 2, p. 145 ; Woodr. in Joarn. Bomb. Nat. 

 V. 11 (1898) p. 636; "Watt, Diet. Econ. Prod. v. 3, p. 195.— Flowers : 

 Dec.-Feb. ' 



Konkan: Katnagiri Collectorate, Nairtie; Dapoli, Kairne; S. Konkan, Dalzell ^- 

 Gibson, Woodrow ! Kanaka : Siddapiir and Yaconibi, Woodrow. — Distrib. Throughout 

 India; Cejlon, China, Japan, Malaya, W. Africa, Australia. 



2. Drosera indica, Linn. Sp. PI. (1753) p. 282. Stem weak, 

 suberect or decumbent, slightly branched, glandular-pubescent. Leaves 

 cauline, alternate, 1-2| in. long, narrow -linear, about ^-^ in. broad, 

 circinate in vernation, the upper portion copiously fringed viith very 

 fine gland-tipped tentacles, the lower half (petiole) glabrous. Flowei-s 

 in leaf-opposed racemes, 3-8 in. long ; pedicels \-h in. long, glandular- 

 hairy. Calyx 4- in. long ; segments oblong-lanceolate, subacute, more 

 or less glandular-pubescent. Petals white, narrowly spathulate, slightly 

 longer than the calyx. Capsules 3-valved ; styles 3. Seeds minute, 

 obovoid, strongly ridged and with raised reticulation. Fl. B. I. v. 2, 

 p. 424; Grab. Cat. p. 11; Dalz. & Gibs. p. 12; Trim. Fl. Ceyl. v. 2, 

 p. 146; Woodr. in Jouru. Bomb. Xat. v. 11 (1898) p. 636.— Flowers : 

 Oct.-Nov. 



Konkan : Salsette and the Koiikans, Ximmo ex Graham : Tingorla, Dahell if Gihson ; 

 N. & S. Konkan, Law \ ; Ra'n;igiri. Xairne, Br. E. H. 1\. LavgJcy\; Siivantwari, 

 IVouJrow. Deccan : Mnhuhleshwiw, Woodrow ; Lanoli, Woodrow \ Kanaka: Law] — ■ 

 DisTHin. India (W. Peninsula, Birnia) ; Ceylon, Malayan Arcliipclago, China, 

 Trojiical Australia, Africa. 



