30 flora OF TASMANIA. [Droseracea. 
petalis obovato-cuneatis, seminibus perplurimis elongatis, testa laxa utrinque producta. — D. Menziesii, 
Hook. Comp. Bot. Mag. i. 274, et Ic. Plant, t. 53 (non Br.). (Gunn, 449.) 
Hab. Northern coast, Bocky Cape, Georgetown, etc.; rare on the southern coasts. — (PI. Sept.) (v.v.) 
Distrib. South-eastern Australia, from Port Phillip to Encounter Bay. 
A very beautiful plant, climbing amongst grass and bushes, to which it attaches itself by its viscid glands. — 
Stents very slender, flexuose, two feet long, as thick as a hog's bristle. Leaves usually ternate, on slender petioles, 
i-1 inch long ; lamina orbicular, peltate, 4-| inch broad, fringed with long glandular hairs. Flow.ers two or three, 
at the top of the plant, nearly 1 inch diameter. Pedicels with lateral bracts. Sepals linear-oblong, blunt, villous, 
with appressed, shaggy, glandular hairs. Petals fugacious. Capsule three-valved. 
6. Drosera auriculata (Backhouse, MSS.; Planchon, 1. c. p. 95) ; caule erecto elongato glaberrimo 
simplici v. diviso, foliis radicalibus parvis, caulinis gracile petiolatis lunatis, racemo laxo 6-8-floro, floribus 
pediceUatis, sepalis oblongis obtusis integris v. subciliatis, petalis sepalis 3-plo longioribus obovato-obcordatis, 
stylis 3, seminibus scobiformibus.— FL N. Zeal. i. 21. D. petiolaris, Sieber, 176, in part, {non Br.) D. 
peltata, Lab. Nov. Roll. i. t. 106. (Gunn, 350.) 
Hab. Throughout the Island, abundant in rocky, grassy, heathy places, etc., Gunn.— (PI. Nov.) (v. v.) 
Distrib. New South Wales, South-eastern Australia, and New Zealand. 
Stems slender, erect, wiry, 12-18 inches high, terminating below in a bulbous root. Radical leaves few ; 
cauline distant, aU on slender petioles ; lamina lunate and peltate. Racemes 2-4 inches long, six- to eight-flowered. 
Flowers on stout pedicels 3 lines long, pink, i-i inch across. Anthers white, very variable, according to Mr. 
Gunn, in size and colour. 
ita (Sm. in Willd. Sp. PL i. 1546); caule erecto elongato simplici v. subramoso, 
foliis sicco nigrescentibus radicalibus reniformibus v. transverso-oblongis, caulinis peltato-lunatis, racemo 
elongato 5-7-floro, floribus pediceUatis, sepalis fimbriato-laceris, seminibus ellipsoideis, testa rugosa haud 
laxa.— Smith, Bxot. Bot. i. t. 51 ; Planchon, I. c. (Gunn, 448.) 
Hab. Throughout the Island, occasionally mixed with D. auriculata, but a much rarer plant, and 
found only m moist spots and grassy land, Gunn.— (EL Nov.) (v. v.) 
Distrib. New South Wales and South-eastern Australia. 
Planchon considers the Tasmanian plant a variety of the Australian, and distinguishes it from that of Smith 
(as var. Gmniana) by the sepals being villous all over the back. It is readily distinguished from D. auriculata 
by the latter character and by the seeds. Mr. Gunn further remarks that it flowers later, is confined to grassy land, 
has white flowers, rounder buds, and yellow anthers. 
8. Drosera gracilis (Hook. fil. MSS. in Planchon, 1. c. p. 297); caule erecto elongato simplici, 
foliis sicco fulvis radicalibus transverse semicircularibus reniforraibusve, caulinis peltato-lunatis, racemo laxo 
paucifloro, sepalis anguste lanceolatis acutis longe ciliatis versus margines villosis, seminibus cylindraceo- 
oblongis breviter caudatis. (Gunn, 784.) (Tab. V.) 
Hab. Northern and mountainous districts, scarce; on moist banks of rivers, Formosa, Hampshire 
Hills, Arthur's Lake, elev. 3000-4000 feet, Gunn, elc.—(Fl. Jan. Peb.) 
This species is closely allied to the preceding, but differs conspicuously in the form of the sepals and seeds, 
and m the foliage not turning black in drying. The flowers too are considerably smaller than those of B. peltata, 
the sepals being only 1* line \on E .~Foliage very red. Flowers pinkish. -Plate V. Pig. 1, radical, and 2, cauline 
leaves; 3, flower; 4, petal; 5, stamen; 6, ovary; 7, valve of capsule, with placenta and seeds; 8, seeds -.-all 
'.uhjuified. 
foliosa (Hook. fil. MSS. in Planchon, 1. c. p. 298) j humilis, caule simplici v. ssepius e basi 
