Drosera.] li. ;droserace.e: (oliver). 403 



with long, slender, stipitate glands nearly to the base; j-lj in. long. 

 Stipules setiform or obsolete. Racemes very shortly pedunculate, 

 shorter than or scarcely overtopping the leafy shoots, at length often 

 recurved. Bracts subulate. Pedicels J in. more or less. Sepals linear- 

 lanceolate, acute. Petals spathulate, gradually narrowed below. Styles 

 3, bipartite to base, segments filiform, laxly papillose at apex. — 

 D. minor, Schum. et Thonn. PI. Guin. 167. 



Upper Guinea. Nupe, Niger, Barter ! Sierra Leone, Afzeliw. 

 Lower Guinea. Pungo Andongo, Angola, Dr. WelwitachI 

 Also Indian and eastward to China and Australia. 



5. D. ramentacea, Burcb. ; DC. Prod. i. 318. Stems ascending, 

 elongate, leafy, lower withered leaves sharply reflexed. Leaves of 

 present year spreading or erect, oblanceolate, obtuse, clothed with long 

 red glands on the upper surface, narrowed into long', straight, slender, 

 nearly glabrous petioles ; with the petiole f-1 in. long. Stipules con- 

 nate, intra-axillary, scarious, narrow-laciniate. Scapes long, slender, 

 glabrous or crisped-puberulous, abruptly curved at base, simple or 

 forked above, |-1 ft. long ; racemes 4-15-nowered. Bracts linear- 

 oblong, obtuse, shorter than or equalling the pedicels which are 1-3 

 lines. Sepals oblanceolate or obovate-oblong, ciliate, with the pedicels 

 obsoletely glandular-granulate. Petals obovate. Styles 3, each divided 

 to the base, segments linear-subulate, minutely papillose. — D. jnada- 

 gascariensis, DC. I.e. 



Upper Guinea. Nupe, Niger (scape glabrous), Barter I 



Lower Guinea. Huilla, Angola (scape puberulous), Dr. Wdwitsch! 



Also at the Cape, and in Madagascar. 



6. D. flexicaulis, Welrv. sp. nov. Stem erect, slender, flexuous, 

 sparsely leafy, glabrate, 3-8 in. long from fascicled, elongate, cylin- 

 drical tubercles. Leaves spathulate- oval, with stipitate glands, nar- 

 rowed into the slender, glabrous petiole, all, including the lower, erect or 

 ascending; lamina and petiole 1—1 J in. long. Stipules of rosette-leaves 

 unequally setaceous-multifid. Scapes 1 or 2, erect, very slender, usu- 

 ally curved at base from a little below the extremity, glabrous, 4-7 in* 

 long. Pedicels strict-erect, about equalling the calyx ; bracts filiform", 

 deciduous. Calyx-lobes ciliolate. Styles as in D. ramentacea. 



Lower Guinea. Huilla, Angola, Dr. Welwitach ! 

 Stem-leaves never reflexed as in D. ramentacea. 



Order LII. HAMAMELIDEiE. (By Prof. Oliver.) 



Flowers unisexual (or hermaphrodite). Perianth (or calyx-tube 

 more or less adnate with the ovary). Petals 0, 4 or more. Stamens 

 4-oo ; filaments short or long, free ; anthers oblong, often tetragonous, 

 2-celled, dehiscing longitudinally, sometimes by a valve on each side. 

 Ovary 2-3-4-carpellary, 2-4-celled below, when calyx is present usu- 

 ally partially or wholly inferior ; carpels free above, each with a subu- 



