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view, between PD. bulligena in the Ergaleium section and 
D. Banksii, the size and general aspect of the two species 
being similar; but while the root of one bears a bulb, that 
of the other is fibrous. The stem and leaves seem alike; but 
in the one stipules are absent, and the lowermost leaves 
are reduced to scales; while in the other stipules are present, 
and the leaves, though reduced in size towards the base, 
retain their leaf-like character. The shghtly divided styles 
of D. myriantha, and in some degree also of D. bulbigena, 
detach these two species from the other cauline forms in 
section Ergaleium, and bring them into juxtaposition with 
D. Banksii in the opposite series. The somewhat abrupt 
diminution in size, and the withered condition of the leaves 
of the lower third of the stem, observed in the Port Darwin 
specimens of D. Banksii, may be due to submersion or dense 
shade, or some other unfavourable condition affecting the 
lower part of the stem. It is possible, however, that they 
may represent a previous season’s growth of the plant, but 
no evidence of a dormant bud is apparent. The stipules in 
these specimens are not so caducous as they appear to have 
been in those originally collected at the Endeavour River 
by Banks, persisting as they do on all of the well-developed 
leaves of the upper half of the stem, even when the flowers 
in the raceme were well advanced. The peculiar position 
of the inflorescence is constant in all the plants so far 
observed. The raceme, which is usually terminal in caules- 
cent forms, is in this species lateral or leaf-opposed, though 
larger than the continuation of the stem beyond its base, 
aud appearing at first sight to be itself the main axis. This 
formation seems to be of the same type as that seen in the 
small group of bulbous species, including D. stolonifera and 
others. 
It is interesting to note how the presence of a bulb in 
species of Drosera is associated with the absence of stipules 
and the reduction of the lower leaves to scales; the latter 
condition, it may be remarked, occurring in the rosette forms 
as well as in the caulescent. The function of the dormant 
bud among the leaves above ground in the Rorella section 
is transferred to the bulb in Ergaleium. The elongated 
distant petioles, with small stipules, of D. Banksii, however, 
do not seem well fitted for the protection of such a bud; 
