MORINGACEiE DROSERACE^. 79 



for asparagus. Oil of the seeds in the W. Indies used as salad oil, 

 and because it does not congeal or turn rancid, employed by watch- 

 makers, and for retaining the aroma of delicate flowers. 

 3. rubriflora, Roxb. Fl. red. — Malda. 



* M. concanensis, Nimmo ; J. Grab. Cat. B. pi. p. 43. b South Con- 



can. 

 Besides these two species, 3 additional ones (2 Indian, and 1 Arabian,) 



are mentioned, but they are very uncertain. 



ORDER XLIII.— DROSERACE.E, DC— Lindl. Nat. Syst. p. 66. 



THE SUNDEW TRIBE. 



Herbaceous, rarely shrubby, bog or water-plants, of 6 genera amount- 

 ing to 52 species : 13 from S. America ; 6 from N. America ; 4 from Europe ; 

 12 from S. Africa; 1 from Madagascar ; 8 from New Holland ; 2 from Van 

 Diemen's Land ; 2 from China ; and 4 from the E. Indies. One species, 

 Drosera Burmanni, Vahl., grows on the mountains as well as on the 

 plains, and one, Drosophyllum lusitanicum, Lk., lives on hills and on the 

 barren sands of Portugal. Of the E. Indian forms, 1 belongs to AldrovaU' 

 da, and is, according to W. and A., identical with the S. European A. ve- 

 siculosa, L. The 3 others are species of Drosera. Properties unimpor- 

 tant. Drosera communis, St. Hil., of Brazil, is said to be poisonous to 

 sheep. The same has been said of other species. D. lunata, Buch. 

 might perhaps, according to Royle, yield a valuable dye, as the paper in 

 which the plants were dried became of a pink colour. 

 Drosera, L. {DC. pr. I, p. 317 ,— W. and A.pr. \,p. 33.) 



1. Burmanni, Vahl. {DC. o.c. jo.318; — W. and. A.o,c. p.34; — Roxb.fi. 



ind. 2, p. 113;— Wight, ill. 1, p. 42, t. 20 ;— J. Grah. Cat. B. pi. p. 



11. — Burm. zeyl. t. 94,/. 2.) Ceylon, Peninsula of India. Bengal, 



Silhet. Fl. very small, yellow ; and fr. C. S. 

 Aldrovanda, L. {DC. pr. l,p. 319; — W. and A.pr. I, p. 34.) 



1. vesiculosa, L. {DC. l. c; — W. and A. I. c. — A. verticillata, Roxb. fl. 



ind. 2, p. 112.) STt^rt^t^tf® Malaka-jhanji. © Standing water in S. 



Europe and Bengal. Fl. small, white. Has been introduced into 



H. C. G. The Bengalee name of the plant is familiar to some of my 



gardeners, but they have as yet not succeeded in procuring it from 



the neighbourhood. 



* Drosera indica, L. ; Wight, ill. 1, p. 42, t. 20, f. C. Ceylon, Penin- 

 sula of India. Tavoy.— Z). lunata, Buch. ; Wight, ill. 1, p. 42, t. 20, 

 f. D. under the name of D. peltata. 



