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1. T. NUDIFLORA, R. Br. in Benn. PI. Jav. Rar. 79, t. 17 ; A.DC. 

 Prodr. XV. pt 1. 411 ; Bedd. PI. Sylv. t. 212 ; Brand. For. PI. 245 : Kurz 

 For. PI. 535 ; Clarke in Hook, f., Plor. Brit. Ind. II, 657. T. Graham- 

 iania, Wight Ic. t. 1956 ; A.DC. 1. c. T. rufinervis, Miq. PI. Ind. Bat. 

 I. pt. I. 726; A.DC. I.e. Anictoclea Graham-tana, Nimmo in Grah. Cat. 

 Bomb. PI. 252.— Indeterminata, Wall. Cat. 9045. 



Andaman Islands ; Kurz. — Distrib. Eastern Himalaya, Burma 

 and Java. 



Order L1V. DROSERACE^E. 



Herbs with large glandular hairs, exuding a viscid fluid. Flowers 

 hermaphrodite, regular. Petals 5 hypogynous, rarely perigynous, thin, 

 nerved, imbricate, marcescent, free or slightly united. Stamens 4 to 20, 

 hypogynous or slightly perigynous ; filaments free or slightly monadel- 

 phous, subulate or filiform : anthers 2-celled ; disc none. Ovary free or 

 adherent by its base to the calyx, globose or ovoid, 1-celled; styles 5, 

 sometimes 3, simple or bifid ; stigmas capitate ; placentas parietal, equal 

 in number to the styles ; ovules and seeds numerous. Capsule mem- 

 branous, 1 -to 5-celled. Seeds with fleshy albumen ; embryo cylindric or 

 minute. — Distri h. Species about 100 ; in temperate and tropical regions 

 generally, but absent from the Pacific Islands. 



Drosera, Linn. 



Small perennial herbs. Leaves radical and rosulate, or cauline and 

 alternate, bearing many large glandular viscid hairs, usually circinate 

 in vernation, with scarious stipules adnate to the petiole, or exstipulate. 

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

 Petals 4 to 8, hypogynous or very slightly perigynous, marcescent. 

 Stamens equal In number to the petals, hypogynous or slightly perigyn- 

 ous. Ovary 1-celled ; styles 2 to 5 ; ovules parietal, numerous. Capsule 

 loculicidally 2-to 5-valved. Seeds numerous, obovoid-ellipsoid (in the 

 Indian species) ; testa black, smooth, reticulate. — Distrib. Species 

 about 90, cosmopolitan, but absent in Polynesia ; Australia. 



Leaves cuneate-spathulate, all radical ... ... 1 D. Burmanni. 



Leaves peltate-lunate with long narrow petioles, some 



radical the others cauline ... ... ... 2 D. peltata. 



Leaves linear, all cauline ... ... ... 3 D. indica. 



1. Drosera Bormanni, Vahl Symb. Ill, 50. Leaves all radical, 

 rosulate, cuneate-spathulate, - 5 to 1*5 in. long, stipules half as long as 

 the petiole. Peduncles erect, 3 to 8 inches high, naked, glabrous. Flowers 

 racemose, their pedicels glabrous, erect in fruit ; calyx minutely papil- 

 lose: styles 5, simple. Don, Prod. PI. Nep. 212; DC. Prod. I, 318; 

 Roxb. Fl. Ind., II, 113; Wall. Cat. 1242; Wight, 111. t. 20; Wight, Ic. 



