Drosera.~\ LIV. DROSERACEJ:. (C. B. Clarke.) 425 



Throughout INDIA. Var. 1 confined to the Malayan Peninsula ; var. 2 ascending to 

 10,000 ft. in the Himalaya, and 8000 in the Nilghiris. DISTJRIB. Malay Archipelago 

 to Australia. 



Stems 3-12 in. high, simple or corymbose upwards. Racemes subterminal, pedi- 

 cels ^- in. long. Flowers white. Seed as in the preceding species ; with a close 

 testa (as Benth. correctly) and not tuberculate, which Planchon says it is. This plant 

 turns very black in drying, but often stains the drying paper purple. 



VAR. 1. typica ; rosulate leaves persistent, sepals very fimbriate. MOULMEIN and 

 SINGAPORE. 



VAR. 2. lunata; rosulate leaves early deciduous, sepals erose or but slightly 

 fimbriate. 



[D. INTERMEDIA of Herb. Boyle is stated to have been collected in N. W. India ; 

 which, as Koyle's specimens are D.peltata typica, is improbable. D. intermedia of W. 

 $ A. Prodr. 34 is probably founded on the specimen so named and still preserved in 

 Wight's Herbarium which seems to have been collected, not in India, and by a Dr. 

 Haynes, not Heyne.] 



2. AX.DROVANDA, Linn. 



A weak succulent diaphanous glabrous floating herb in water. Stems arti- 

 culate, with whorls of spathulate-orbicular leaves at the nodes, the laminsB 

 ^ 5- in. diam., contorted, bladdery. Flowers peduncled, axillary, solitary. Calyx 

 5-partite. Petals 5, hypogynous, connivent in a cap. Stamens 5, hypogynous. 

 Ovary 1-celled ; styles 5 with terminal branching stigmas ; ovules numerous, on 

 5 parietal placentae. Capsule globose, 6-valved. Seeds numerous, broad, oblong, 

 testa black shining. 



1. A. vesiculosa, Linn. ; DC. Prodr. i. 319; Reich. Iconogr. Europ. 

 Iii. t. 24 ; H.f. fy T. in Journ. Linn. Soc. ii. 83 ; W. & A. Prodr. 34 ; Planch, 

 in Ann. Sc. Nat. ser. iii. vol. ix. 304. A. verticillata, Roxb. Fl. Ind. ii. 112. 



Salt-pans south of CALCUTTA; Roxburgh; T. Thomson; 8. Kurz. DISTRIB. Cen- 

 tral Europe and Australia. 



ORDER LV. HAlKAXKEXiXDEJE. (By 0. B. Clarke, F.L.S.) 



Trees or shrubs, often with stellate pubescence ; prosenchyma of the wood 

 marked with discs as in the Coniferce. Leaves alternate, petiolate, simple or 

 palmately lobed ; stipules 1-2, rarely wanting, deciduous or rarely persistent. 

 Flowers hermaphrodite or unisexual, collected into heads, spikes, or close ra- 

 cemes, or spikes. Calyx small or 0, adnate to the ovary ; free in Distylium. 

 Petals 0, or 4-5 perigynous or nearly epigynous. Stamens 4-oo , perigynous, or 

 in Distylium hypogynous ; anthers dehiscing longitudinally ; the valves decidu- 

 ous in Loropetalum. Ovary 2-celled ; styles 2, separate and ultimately divari- 

 cate, persistent (deciduous in Altingid) ; ovules 1-co , axile, pendulous. Capsule 

 woody, dehiscing at the vertex across the dissepiment so as to split each style 

 in two, and in some genera also afterwards imperfectly dehiscing through the 

 dissepiment ; endocarp often horny separating from the exocarp. Seeds 1, or 

 many when usually only the lowest in each cell is perfect. DISTRIB. Species 

 30 ; found in Asia from Persia and the Himalaya to Malaya China and Japan ; 

 in North America and in South Africa. 



