146 Droseracece. {Drosera* 



longest at the margin, stip. adnate to petiole, scarious, cut inta 

 long filiform laciniae ; fi. about \ in., on long slender ped.,. 

 secund, about 8-20 at end of erect slender, glabrous scapes 

 4-6 in. high, 1-3 in number, from axils of inner leaves ; caL 

 minutely papillose, segm. linear-oblong, obtuse ; pet. rather 

 longer than cal., spathulate ; styles 5, undivided ; capsule 

 5-celled, seeds reticulate. 



Wet places throughout the island ; common at all elevations. FL 

 March, April ; white. 



Found throughout the Tropics of the Eastern Hemisphere. 

 Closely allied to the common Sundew (D. rotundifolid) of England. 



2. D. indica, L. Sfl. PI 282 (1753). Kandul-essa, S. 



Herm. Mus. 63. Burm. Thes. 207. Fl. Zeyl. n. 121. Moon Cat. 23. 

 Thw. Enum. 21. C. P. 1088. 



Fl. B. Ind. ii. 424. Burm. Thes. t. 94, f. i. Wight, 111. i. t. 20, f. c. 



Stem weak, decumbent, slightly branched, glandular- 

 pubescent; 1. numerous, cauline, alternate, i^-if in., narrowly 

 linear, strongly circinate in vernation, defiexed but again 

 curved upwards at end when old, lower half (petiole) glabrous,, 

 rest copiously fringed with very fine gland-tipped tentacles ;. 

 fl. over ^ in. on long ascending ped., 6-8 in rather stout 

 axillary and terminal glandular racemes longer than 1.; cal.- 

 segm. oblong-oval, subobtuse, entire, glandular-pubescent ;, 

 pet. narrow, spathulate, obtuse ; styles 3 ; seeds minute, ovoid, 

 strongly ridged, with raised reticulation. 



Low country; rather rare. Pasdun Korale; Negombo; Kurunegalaj 

 Nilgala; Jaffna (dwarf form). Fl. July; white. 



Also in S. India, Burma, Malaya, and China, and in Trop. Australia 

 and Africa. 



3. D. peltata, Sm. in Willd. Sp. PI. i. 1546 (1797). 



D. lunata, Ham., Thw. Enum. 22; Moon Cat. 23. C. P. 2553. 



Fl. B. Ind. ii. 424. Wight, 111. i. t. 20, f. D. Hook. Ic. PI. t. 54 



(D. lunatd). > . 



Stem erect, 6-10 in. high, occasionally with a branch or 

 two near the top, glabrous, arising from a globose, solid, 

 smooth, red bulbil about \ in. diam. (a few rootlets come from 

 base of stem above the bulbil) ; 1. numerous, alternate, rather 

 distant along whole length of stem, petiole very slender, 

 spreading, curved, blade vertical, peltately attached, semi- 

 circular with the upper edge straight or slightly concave and 

 prolonged at the corners into long acuminate horns giving the 

 whole a semilunate outline, tentacles very numerous, the 

 marginal ones long and spreading, the rest short ; fl. nearly 

 i in., on long ascending, slightly pilose ped... about 8 in a raceme 

 which is at first nodding, afterwards erect ; cal.-segm. ovate, 



