Drummondiane. N. O. Droseracezx. 
TAB. CCCLXXVI. 
DrosE RA MACROPHYLLA,. 
Radice tuberosa solida, caule elongato nudo simplici apice foli- 
oso basi dilatato et cum tubere articulato, foliis (magnis 
cuneatis rosulatis vix in petiolum attenuatis apice truncatis 
supra marginibusque glanduloso-pilosis, pedunculis aggrega- 
tis folio longioribus 2—8-floris. 
Drosera macrophylla. Lindl. Sketch of Swan River Botany, p. 
xx. n. 91, 
Has. Swan River, New Holland; James Drummond. 
The root of this beautiful plant is a small solitary tuber, about 
the size of a pea, imparting, as does the base of the stem, a beau- 
tiful purple dye to the paper on which the specimen is fastened. 
Thestem is articulated as it were on the top of this, and, at the 
Point of attachment, much swollen, probably about to form a 
aed tuber for the following year : the rest of the stem, about four 
inches long, is as thick as a crow’s quill, naked, or only marked 
with the scars of the fallen leaves. The present year’s foliage 
is confined to the summit of the stem, rosulate, of 10—12 leaves: 
these leaves are the largest of any species with which I am ac- 
quainted, two inches long, and an inch or an inch and gen 
in the upper part. Peduncles 2—3 flowered, and as we 
48 the pedicels and calyx perfectly glabrous. 3 : 
Perhaps in this tree as a as in that of the preceding 
Plate, (D. bulbosa,) the root, in its perfect state, is covered hi , 
Concentric scales, The dye given out by the tuber is singularly 
beautiful, 
