TRANSACTIONS AND PROCEEDINGS 



BOTANICAL SOCIETY OF EDLXBURGH 



SESSION LXVIII. 



A New West-Australian Plant : Dkosera bulbigena, 

 A. Morrison. By Alexander Morrison, M.D. 



(Read 12th November 1903.) 



Drosera bulbigena, a. Morrison. — Stem filiform 

 terniinatino; in a few-tiowered raceme, rootstock formincf 

 a bulb ; stem-leaves with a lunar-peltate lamina, those at 

 base reduced to scales. Sepals ovate, with long cilia-like 

 teeth, glabrous, half as long as petals. Styles in two, 

 sometimes three, tufts of subacute filaments spreading 

 from the base, or occasionally also dividing higher up 

 into two or three branches. 



Coolup, Murray Pdver (R. Helms). Wet flats. Lower 

 Canning Piiver (A. Morrison). 



Plant 3— t) cm. in height above ground, quite glabrous, 

 with a rootstock of 4 cm. or less covered with pale brown 

 fibrous remains of the old a.xis and sending out a few long 

 horizontal processes close to the surface of the ground ; at 

 the base terminating in a bulb covered witli tliick dark 

 brown scales, or forming a series of bulbs developt'd in 

 succession downwards. Stem erect, slender, fie.xuo.se, its 

 leaves on slender petioles of 2-3 mm. dilated at the base 

 but without stipules, lamina truncate orbicular 2 mm. or 

 less in diameter and relle.xed on top of petiole which is 



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