146 XXVII. DROSEEACEAE. [Drosera. 



3. D. pygmaea, DC, Prod. i. 317. A minute species, forming depressed 

 rosettes less than \m. in diameter. Petiole slender ; blade orbicular, sub- 

 peltate, glandular. Stipules scarious, forming a silvery cone in the centre of 

 the rosette. Scapes 1—4, capillary, iin.-|in. high, 1-flowered. Flowers minute. 

 Calyx 4-lobed. Petals scarcely exceeding the sepals. Styles 4, short, clavate. 

 Capsule 4-valved ; seeds few. 



NORTH Island : Cape Maria van Diemen, Colenso. Te Paua, Parengarenga, Cheeseman ! 

 SOUTH Island : Bluff Hill, T. E. Deo., Jan. 



A charming little gem. Also found in Australia. 



4. D. Spathulata, LaMll, Nov. Roll. PI. i. 79, t. 106, /. 1. Stemless. 

 Leaves rosulate, crowded, obovate or spathulate, narrowed into a long or short 

 often broad petiole, densely glandular. Stipules scarions, laciniate at the tip 

 or fimbriate. Scape slender, lin.— 6in. long. Flowers 1—6, shortly pedicelled, 

 forming a 1-sided or spiral raceme, or often solitary. Calyx deeply 5-lobed ; 

 lobes linear-oblong. Petals 5, equalling the calyx. Stamens 5. Styles 3, 

 2-partite.— DC, Prod. i. 318; Hook, f., Fl. N.Z. i. 20; Handbk. 63; Benth., 

 Fl. Austr. ii. 459. D. propinqua, R. Cunn. in Precurs. n. 620. D. minutula, 

 Col. in Trans. N.Z.I, xxi. (1880) 81. 



Mangonui and Bay of Islands to Stewart Island, but very local in many districts. Sea- 

 level to 4,500ft. Dec, Jan. Also in Australia. 



Var. triflora. Petioles numerous, short, broad ; blade orbicular. Scape 1 or 2, stout, ^in.-Jin. . 

 long, 2-3-flowered.— £). triflora, Col. in Trans. N.Z.I, xxii. (1889) 461. Base of Tongariro, S. Hill I 



5. D. binata, LaUll, Nov. Holl. PI. i. 79, t. 105, /. 1. Stemless. Root 



of few or many fleshy fibres. Leaves all radical or naked ; petioles 2in.— 4in. 



long ; the blade divided into 2 linear acute lobes, lin.— Sin. long, simple or 



again divided, and clothed above with glandular hairs, glabrous beneath. Stipules 



toothed or laciniate at the apex. Scapes 6in.— 18in. high, branched at the apex. 



Flowers on slender pedicels, forming a lax few- or many-flowered cyme. Sepals 



5 or 4, acute, glabrous. Petals 5 or 4, obovate, more than twice as long as the 



sepals. Stamens 5 or 4. Styles usually 3, penicillate. Capsule globose. — 



DC, Prod. i. 319; Bot. Mag. t. 3082; Hook, f., Fl. N.Z. i. 20; Handbk. 64; 



Benth., Fl. Austr. ii. 461. D. intermedia, R. Cunn. ex Precurs. n. 621. 



D. dichotoma, Banks and Sol. MSS. 



From the North Cape to the Bluff ; Stewart Island. Sea-level to nearly 2,000ft. Fly-catcher. 

 Nov. to Feb. Earely the leaves are multi-partite. 



Var. flagellifera. Smaller than the typical form. Leaf-segments very narrow, simple or 

 forked. Calyx-lobes divided nearly to the base, oblong-tcuuoate, unequally laciniate at the tips 

 Styles 5 or more, much branched and forked.— £>. flagellifera, Col. in Trans. N.Z.I, xxiii, (1890) 384 

 Tahoraite, Waipawa. Also in Australia. 



6. D. auriculata, J. Backh. ex Planch, in Aim. Sc. Nat. Ser. 3, ix. 

 (1848) 295. Stock lin.-2in. long, slender, springing from a spherical tuber. 

 Stems 1 or more, very slender, erect, simple or sparingly branched, glabrous, 

 leafy. Radical leaves rosulate ; petioles flattened, short ; blade with long o-lands 

 near the margins, orbicular, subreniform, peltate. Caulinc leaves on longer capil- 

 lary or filiform petioles, lunate, or truncate on the upper side, the two ano-les 



