146 DROSERACE. [ Drosera. 
NortH Isuanp: Cape Maria van Diemen, Colenso! Te Paua, Parenga- 
renga, 7. F.C.; near Ahipara, H. Carse! R. H. Matthews! Sovuru Isuanp: 
Bluff Hill, Kirk. December—January. Also in Australia and Tasmania. 
A beautiful little plant, probably not uncommon in moist peaty situations, 
but very easily overlooked. 
4. D. spathulata, Labill. Nov. Holl. Pl. i. 79, t. 106, f. 1.— 
Stemless. Leaves numerous, crowded, rosulate, 4-$in. long ; blade 
4-1in., spathulate or obovate or orbicular-obovate, narrowed into a 
broad and flat petiole of varying length, upper surface and margins 
covered with glandular hairs; stipules scarious, narrow, laciniate. 
Scapes 1 or several, 1-6 in. high, usually bearing a secund raceme 
of 3-7 flowers, but often 2—3-flowered or even 1-flowered. Flowers 
small, 4 in. diam., white or rose. Calyx deeply divided ; lobes 5, 
linear-oblong. Petals 5, rather longer than the calyx. Styles 3, 
2-partite almost to the base, branches entire or again forked.—- 
Hook. f. Fl. Nov. Zel. i. 20; Handb. N.Z. Fl. 63; Benth. Fl. Aus- 
tral. ii. 459; Kirk, Students’ Fl. 146. D. propinqua, H. Cunn. Pre- 
cur.n. 620. D. minutula, Col. in Trans. N.Z. Inst. xxi. (1889) 81. 
D. triflora, Col. J.c. xxii. (1890) 461. 
Nortu AnpD SoutH IsnANpDs, Stewart Isuanp : From Mongonui southwards, 
but often local. Sea-level to 4500 ft. November—January. Also in Aus- 
tralia and Tasmania. 
Mountain specimens are often much reduced in size, with shorter and 
broader leaves, 1-2-flowered scapes, and broader calyx-lobes; but they pass by 
insensible gradations into the ordinary form. 
5. D. binata, Labill. Nov. Holl. Pl. 1. 78, t. 105, f. 1.—Stem- 
less. Rootstock short, emitting numerous fleshy roots. Leaves 
all radical, erect; petioles 2-5 in. long, slender, glabrous; blade 
2-4 in., divided to the base into 2 narrow-linear segments #,—;4, in. 
broad, which are simple or again forked, upper surface and mar- 
gins clothed with long glandular hairs. Scapes exceeding the 
leaves, 6-18in. high, slender, glabrous, bearing a loose cyme of 
few or many rather large white flowers }4in. diam. Calyx 
deeply 4-d-lobed; lobes oblong, entire or lacerate at the tips. 
Petals 4-5, obovate, twice as long as the calyx. Styles usually 
3, penicillate—Bot. Mag. t. 8082; Hook. f. Fl. Nov. Zel. i. 20; 
Handb. N.Z. Fl. 64; Benth. Fl. Austral. ii. 461; Kirk, Students’ 
Fu. 146. D. intermedia, &. Cunn. Precur. n. 621. D. flagellifera, 
Col. in Trans. N.Z. Inst. xxii. (1891) 384. 
NortH AND SoutH IsLanps, Stewart Istanp: From the North Cape 
southwards. Sea-level to 2500 ft. November—February. A common 
Australian and Tasmanian plant. 
A very handsome and conspicuous species. Mr. Colenso’s D. flagellifera, 
as shown by the specimens in his herbarium, is merely a small state with 
narrower and often simple leaf-segments, and can be matched in any locality 
where the plant is plentiful. 
6. D. auriculata, Backh. ex Planch. in Ann. Sci. Nat. Ser. 3, ix. 
(1848) 295.—Rootstock slender, terminating in a globose tuber deep 
