473 BENGAL PLANTS. (Drosera, 
the stem scapigerous, or alternate, the stem leafy, in bud usually 
circinate; stipules 0, or scarious and adnate. Sepals 4, 5, or 8, 
suberect, very slightly connate at base, free from ovary, persistent. 
Petals 4, 5, or 8, hypogynous or slightly perigynous, rose or white, : 
8 
gynous. Carpels 2-5, connate in a 1-celled ovary with 
styles; placentas parietal; ovules numerous. Fruit a Joculi- 
cidally opening, 2-5-valved capsule. Seeds many, obovoid, 
ellipsoid. 
Stems leafy, decumbent; leaves alternate, long, linear; styles 3, ep 
their base i 
ere 
751. Drosera Burmanni Vahl.; F. I. ii. 113; F. B. 1. ii. 4243 
. D. D. 836. 
In all the provinces except C. Bengal. 
A small herb. Hind. Mukha-jali. 
752. Drosera mnpica Linn. ; F. I. ii. 113; F.B. I. ii. 424. 
a Nagpur, 
herb 
317. Aldrovanda Linn. : 
A weak, succulent, glabrous, floating, aquatic herb, with articu: 
late stems; leaves spathulate, orbicular, whorled at the nodes, the 
blades contorted, bladder-like. Flowers peduncled, anes 
tary; peduncles decurved in fruit; bracts 0. Sepals 5, slightly — 
connate below, oblong, obtuse, imbricate. Petals 5, h had 
connivent ina cap. Stamens 5, hypogynous ; filaments — ; 
anthers didymous; dehiscence lateral. Carpels 5, connate ) 
1-celled ovary, with 5 parietal placentas ; styles 5, filiform, 
with terminal branching stigmas ; ovules very many- B 
globose, 5-valved, membranous eapsule. Seeds numerous, broad, 
ining tes 
C. Bengal, salt lakes, i 
A floating water-weed. Beng. Malacca jhangl. 
