424 LIV. DEOSEKACEJ!. (C. B. Clarke.) \_Drosera. 



1. DROSERA, Linn. 



Perennial herbs, scapigerous or with a leafy stem, glandular-pilose. Leaves 

 rosulate or alternate, usually circinate in vernation ; stipules or scariose and 

 adnate to the petiole. Calyx free from the ovary, 4-8-partite, sepals persistent. 

 Petals 4-8, hypogynous or scarcely perigynous, white or rose, withering persis- 

 tent. Stamens as many as the petals, hypogynous or scarcely perigynous. Ovary 

 1-celled with 2-5 styles ; ovules parietal, numerous. Capsule loculicidally 

 2-5-valved. Seeds numerous, in the Indian species obovoid-ellipsoid with the 

 testa black smooth reticulate not lax. DISTKIB. Species 100, scattered through- 

 out the world except Polynesia ; very numerous in Australia. 



1. D. Burmanni, Vahl. Symb.iii. 50 ; leaves all radical rosulate cuneate- 

 spathulate, stipules equalling half the petiole, scapes 1-3 glabrous, flowers race- 

 mose with glabrous pedicels, styles 5 undivided. Don Prodr. 212 ; DC. Prodr. i. 

 318 ; Roxb. FL 2nd. ii. 113 ; Wall. Cat. 1242 ; Wight. III. t. 20 (the styles incor- 

 rect) ; Wight Ic. t. 944 ; W. $ A. Prodr. 34 ; Planch, in Ann. Sc. Nat. ser. iii. 

 vol. ix. 190 ; Miq. Fl. Ind. Bat. i. pt. ii. p. 120 ; H. f. $ T. in Journ. Linn. 

 Soc. ii. 82 ; Thwaites Enum. 21 ; Dah. $ Gibs. Bomb. Fl. 12 ; Kurz in Journ. 

 As. Soc. 1876, pt. ii. 310. 



Throughout INDIA in the Plains, from CEYLON and Bombay to the base of the 

 HIMALAYA and BURMAH ; abundant ; ascending to 4000 ft. in the Himalaya, and 8000 

 ft. in the Deccan. DISTRIB. China and Japan, Malaya, West Africa, Australia. 



Leaves -l|- in. long. Scapes 2-8 in. high ; pedicels erect in fruit. Calyx minutely 

 papillose. 



2. D. indie a, Linn. Sp. PL 403 ; stem decumbent elongate with alternate 

 long linear leaves, racemes leaf-opposed, styles 3 bifid to the base. DC. Prodr. 

 i. 319 ; Roxb. Fl. Ind. ii. 313 ; Wall. Cat. 1244 ; Wight III. t. 20 (the styles in- 

 correct} ; W. $ A. Prodr. 34 ; Planch, in Ann. Sc. Nat. ser. iii. vol. ix. 204 ; 

 Miq. Fl. Ind. Bat. i. pt. ii. p. 120; H. f. $ T. in Journ. Linn. Soc. ii. 82 ; 

 Thwaites Enum. 21 ; Dah. fy Gibs. Bomb. Fl. 12 ; Kurz in Journ. As. Soc. 

 1876, pt. ii. 310. D. Finlaysoniana, Wall. Cat. 3752. D. serpens, Planch. I.e. 

 204 ; Rheede Hort. Mai. x. t. 20. 



CEYLON and the DECCAN as far north as CHOTA NAGFORE, frequent ; BURMA and 

 the MALAY PENINSULA (but not known in the Grangetic Plain). DISTRIB. China, 

 Malaya, Tropical Australia, Africa. 



Stems 2-12 in., simple, rarely branched. Leaves 1-3 in., very glandular-pubes- 

 cent, hardly broader than the glabrous petiole. Eacemes 2-6 in. ; pedicels - in. 

 Sepals lanceolate, minutely glandulose or nearly glabrous. Seeds obovoid; testa 

 prominently reticulated, not scrobiculate nor differing essentially from the seeds of 

 the other two Indian species. 



3. D. peltata, Sm. in Willd. Sp. PL i. 1546 ; stem erect leafy, leaves 

 alternate long petioled lunate peltate, sepals ovate glabrous erose or fimbriate, 

 styles 3 fimbriate. DC. Prodr. i. 319 ; Sm. Exot. Bot. t. 41 (wrong as to colour 

 of the flowers) ; Don Prodr. 212 ; Wight III. t. 20 ; W. fy A. Prodr. i. 34 ; 

 Planch, in Ann. Sc. Nat. ser. iii. vol. ix. 296 ; Kurz in Journ. As. Soc. 1876, 



it. ii. 310. D. lunata, Ham. ; DC. Prodr. i. 319; Wall. Cat. 1243; Hook. Ic. 



~\ t. 54 ; Planch. 1. c. 296 ; Miq. Fl. Ind. Bat. i. pt. ii. p. 120 ; H. f. $ T. in 

 Journ. Linn. Soc. ii. 82 ; Thwaites Enum. 22. D. gracilis and D. foliosa, Hook, 

 f. ; Planch. 1. c. 297, 298. D. Lobbiana, Turcz. (fide Kurz). 



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