296 PIAÏVCIIOX. — SUR LES DltOSÉKACÉKS. 



Rhizoma tenuis simplex 1-2 pollicaris, inferne tiiberi globoso, vix piso 

 majori adhœrens. Folia omnia, si proportionem exceperis , uniformia, 

 caulina (primse evolutionis) petiolo gracillimo, 1-10 lin. longo sustenta, 

 stricte erecto-patentia , internodhs longiora; lamina serai: unata , basi 

 subtruncata, angulis in auriculas 2 subuliformes, eleganter barbato 

 ciliatas productis. Racemus 2-4-pollicaris, 6-10-florus. Pedicelli sub- 

 distichi, erecto-patentes, semipollicares, bractea minuta, lineari, subla- 

 terali stipati. Flores parvi. Calyx ad basim 5-partitus , laciniis e basi 

 subcontracta ovatis, [acuminatis, acutiusculis, integris v. denticulis mi- 

 nutis liaud glandulosis bine inde auctis. Petala calyce duplo (et ultra?) 

 longiora, longe unguiculata. Antherse brèves, subrotundae, in siceo pal- 

 lide carneae. Capsula calyce paulum accreto inclusa. Semina opaca , 



Sp. 67. Drosera lunata Buch. — D. glaberrima; foliis radicalibus 

 fugacissimis (rarissime sub tempore florescentiee obviis) ; cau- 

 linis lunatis, longe petiolatis, parvis, exsiccatione nigrescenti- 

 bus; racemo paucifloro, brève pedunculato ; calycis 5-partiti 

 laciniis subrhomboideo- ovatis , frucliferis inferne flabellato-5- 

 plicatis(in sicco), glaberrimis, apicem versus eroso-fimbriatis; 

 penicillato multifidis; capsula 3-valvi ; seminibus ovoideo- 

 ellipsoideis, testa solida minutissime striato-tuberculata. 



Dros. lunata Buchan. ined. ex DG. prod., I, p. 3>9. 



Dros. peltata W. et Arn. Prod. fl. Pen. Ind. or., I, p. 34, non Smith! 

 Wight. 111. of Ind. bot., tab.20, t. D, (Placentge 5 ibi delineautur , an 

 recte ?) 



Hab. Per totam Indiara orientaletn et in imperio Chinensi. — Ceylona ; 

 Domina Walker; Gardner, n° 54, in herb. Hook — Montes Neelgherries ; 

 Gardn., ibid. — Bombay; Law in herb. Hook. — Periins. Ind. or; 

 D r Wigth. — Assam ; Jenkins in herb. Hook. — Napalia; circa Sernbu ; 

 Buchanan Hamilt. ex DC; ibid prope Katmandu et ad Gossaia-Than ; 

 ()' Wallich in herb. Hook. — Simba; Domina Dalliousie, ibid. — Silhet ; 

 Bruce ex cl. Arn. — China; Fortune^ n° 33 (loco natal i proprio deside- 

 rato) . 



Species, ut cl. Arnott jam suspicatus est, a stirpe Australasica {D. 

 peltata Sra.) distincta : foliis radicalibus fere semper sub tempore flo 

 rescentiœ evanidis, et fimbriis calycis multo brevioribu^. 



Sp. 68. Drosera peltata Sm. - D. calycibusexceptis glaberrima ; 



