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Drosera longifolia Linn. Sp. P]. p. 282; Koch, Syn. Fl. Germ, et 

 Plelv. ed. 3, p. 78 ; Lexleb. FL Rosf'. I. p. 261 ; Kegel, PI. Radd. I. p. 

 258; Hillebr. Fl. Hawai. Isl'. p. 122; Makino in Bot. Mag., Tokyo, XIV. 

 p. 33. 



Eorella longifolia All ' Fl. Pedem. 11. p. 88 (1785) '. 



Drosera anglica DC. Prodr. I. p. 318 ; Engl. Bot. tab. 869 ; Hook. 

 Fl. Bor.-Amer. I. p. 81 ; Torr. et Gray, Fl. K Anier. I. p. 146. 



Drosera americana Willd. Enum. PI. Hort. Bot. Berol. (1809) p. 340. 



Perennial. Leaves tufted, erect, long-petioled, attaining about 14 mm. 

 long including the petiole, the blade shorter than the petiole, spathulato- 

 linear, rounded-obtuse at the apex, gradually attenuated below and passing 

 into the petiole, pilose with patent glandular long red h«irs above, glabrous 

 beneath, 1-31 cm. long, 2-4 mm. wide; petiole slender, villose with scarious 

 hairs at the base. Scape erect, straight, slender, glabrous, • longer than 

 the leaves, about 13-21 cm. long including the raceme. Raceme shorter 

 than the scape, secundly about 3-8-flowered, circinate before anthesis ; rachis 

 glabrous ; bracts minute, filiform. Flowers about 5-7 mm. across, pedicel- 

 late, white; pedicel erect, glabrous, 2-6 mm. long. Calyx campanulate, 

 5-parted, nearly glabrous, 4r-5 mm. long ; segments oblong, acutish-obtuse, 

 laxly minutely glandulous on the margin. Petals 5, cuneato-spathulate, 

 rounded at the apex. Stamens 5, longer than the calyx ; filament filiform ; 

 anther rounded. Ovary cylindrico-ellipsoid ; styles 3, deeply parted into 2 

 long, filiform branches, nearly as long as the ovary. Capsule scarcely 

 longer than the persistent calyx in height, cylindrico-ellipsoid, dehiscent into 

 3 1-placentiferous valves. Seeds numerous, subspathulato-oblong, compress- 

 ed, 1- nearly 2 mm. long ; embryo oblong, ^ as long as the testa. Flowers 

 July- August. 



Nom. Jap. Nagaha-no-mosengohe. 



Hah. Prov. Iwashiro : Ose-daira {B. Hayata ! July 3, 1898, July 30, 

 1903; K Nemotol Aug. 1899; D. HosM\ Aug. 1903; G. Nakahara\ 

 July 1903, Aug. 1904); Prov. Chishima (Kuril Isl.): Mt. Atoiya in Isl. 

 Etrof {T. Kaivakavii, Aug. 11, 1898). 



Rare in Japan. It was first discovered and collected by Mr. Bunzo 

 Ilayata in above cited locality. Japanese one belongs to a. vulgaris of 

 Koch. 



Drosera indica Linn. Sp. PI. p. 282 ; Richt. Cod. n. 2232 ; Houtt. 

 Nat. Hist. XXVI. (1777) p. 294, et Linn. Pfl.-Syst. VI. p. 271 ; Willd. 



