Drosera.'] lit. deoseeaceji, (C. B. Clarke.) 425 



Throughout India. Var. 1 confined to the Malayan Peninsula ; rar. 2 ascending to 

 10,000 ft. in the Himalaya, and 8000 in the Nilghiris. — ^Distbib. Malay Archipelago 

 to Australia, 



Stems 3-12 in. high, simple or corymbose upwards. Racemes subterminal, pedi- 

 cels !;-§ in. long. Flowers -white. Seed as in the preceding species ; -with a close 

 testa (as Benth. correctly) and not tuberculate, -which Planehou says it is. This plant 

 turns very black in drying, but often stains the drying paper purple. 



Vae. 1. typica ; rosulate leaves persistent, sepals very fimbriate. Mootmbin and 



SiNCAPORE. 



Vae. 2. hmata; rosulate leaves early deciduous, sepals erose or but slightly 

 fimbriate. 



[D. INTEBMBDIA of H^b. Eoyle is stated to have been collected in N. W. India ; 

 ■which, as Eoyle's specimens are D.peltata typiea, is improbable. J), intermedia of W. 

 Sf A. Frodr. 34 is probably founded on the specimen so named and still preserved in 

 Wight's Herbarium -which seems to have been collected, not in India, and by a Dr. 

 Haynes, tiot Heyne.] 



2. AIiDB.OVA.ITDA., lAnn. 



A -weak succulent diaphanous glabrous floating herb in -water. Stems arti- 

 culate, -with -whorls of spathulate-orbicular leaves at the nodes, the kminse 

 ^-j in. diam., contorted, bladdery, i^/otoej-s peduncled, axillary, solitary. Calyx 

 5-partite. Petals 5, hypogynous, connivent in a cap. Stamens 5, hypogynous. 

 Ovary 1-celled ; styles 5 -with terminal branching stigmas ; ovules numerous, on 

 6 parietal placentse. Capmle globose, 5-valved. Seeds n-umerous, broad, oblong, 

 testa black shining. 



1. A. vesiculosa, XmTi. ; DC. Prodr. i. 319; Meich. Iconogr. Europ, 

 iii. t. 24 ; H./. Sf T. in Journ. Linn. Soc. ii. 83 ; W. 8f A. Prodr. 34 ; Planoh, 

 in Ann. Sc. Nat. ser. iii, vol. ix. 304. A. verticiUata, Roxh. Fl. Ind. ii. 112. 



Salt-pans south -of Caxcutta; Soxburgh; T. Thomson; 8. Kterz. — Disteib. Cen- 

 tral Europe and Australia. 



Obdeb LY. HAHIABXSXiXDES:. (By 0. B. Clarke, F.L.S.) 



Trees or shrubs, often with stellate pubescence ; prosenchyma of the wood 

 marked -with discs as in the Coniferce. Leaves alternate, petiolate, simple or 

 pahnately lobed ; stipules 1-2, rarely wanting, deciduous or rarely persistent. 

 Flowers hermaphrodite or unisexual, collected into heads, spikes, or close ra- 

 cemes, or spikes. Calyx small or 0, adnate to the ovary ; free in Distylium. 

 Petals 0, or 4-5 perigynous or nearly epigynous. Stamens 4-qo , perigynous, or 

 in Distylium hypogynous ; anthers dehiscing longitiidinally ; the valves decidu- 

 ous in Loropetalum. Ovary 2-celled ; styles 2, separate and ultimately divari- 

 cate, persistent (deciduous in Altingia) ; ovules l-oo , axile, pendulous. Capsule 

 Voody, dehiscing at the vertex across the dissepiment so as to split each style 

 in two, and in some genera also afterwards imperfectly dehisding through the 

 dissepiment ; endocarp often horny separating from the exocarp. Seeds 1, or 

 many when usually only the lowest in each cell is perfect. — Disteib. Species 

 30 ; found in Asia from Persia and the Himalaya to Malaya China and Japan ; 

 in North America and in South Africa. 



