Jory 1905.]. BOTANICAL SOCIETY OF EDINBURGH. 115 
examine or record. Lastly, Mr. James Britten! published, 
in 1900, a figure of the plant, copied from a sketch by 
Sydney Parkinson, taken during the voyage, and evidently 
from a living specimen. The Port Darwin specimen com- 
prises three plants, each apparently complete, with root, 
stem, and flowers, measuring in total length—one 6°7 cm., 
with 24 or 25 leaves; another 6 em., with 27 or more leaves ; 
and the third 3°3 cm. A detailed description of these 
specimens is here given :— 
Stem erect, slender, rather weak, continuing to grow out 
after production of raceme at its upper part. Root 
system well developed, and without a bulb; a number of 
strong fibres descending obliquely, some branching and 
showing smooth-walled hairs. Leaves numerous, scattered 
along stem from base to summit, none in the axile, largest 
at base of inflorescence and diminishing downwards; petioles 
slender, sparingly pubescent, up to 5 mm. in length, thick 
at base, and attenuated in upper half, attached close to 
truncate margin of lamina, which is suborbicular, thin in 
texture, and under 1 mm. diam., excluding the glandular hairs 
on its margin; stipules persisting during flowering on upper 
half of stem, slightly attached to base of petioles, but other- 
wise free, scarious, brownish, lanceolate, with a long filiform 
or flagellate point of nearly equal length, and a few shorter 
laciniate teeth on the sides, the whole 1 mm. long. A 
unilateral raceme, between 5 and 4 em. in length, is 
produced at the upper part of the leafy stem, which con- 
tinues to grow out and produce a terminal flower; it is 
leaf-opposed, pedunculate, bears three flowers without bracts, 
and is furnished with slender, fusiform, smooth, appressed 
peltate hairs, the lower end being produced considerably 
below the attachment. Pedicels 2°5 mm. to 4 mm. in length ; 
sepals ovate-lanceolate, obscurely toothed, villous, not 
exceeding 15 mm.; petals twice as long, apparently white; 
anthers broader than long; styles three, about 1 mm. in length, 
forked near the base, and sometimes a branch again bifurcate, 
the long branches tapering, stigmatic to near the fork; 
ovary broadly ovoid; seeds ovoid, black, smooth, 1 mm. 
long. 
The division of the genus Drosera into two main sections, 
1 © Journ. of Bot.,” vol. xxxviii. p. 207, pl. 410 B. (1900). 
