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Sect. 1. Rorella. — Stock not bulbous, the upper end perennial. Scapes leafless (except in 
D. indica). Stipules often present. Styles usually simple or divided into 2 simple branches, or 
rarely dichotomous. 
No stipules. 
Stems elongated. Leaves alternate, linear. Racemes several-flowered. 
Styles divided to the base into 2 filiform branches 1. D. indica. 
Stems very short. Leaves lanceolate, 3 to 7in. long, ^ to lin. broad. 
Flower racemes long. Styles shortly bifid 2. D. Adelce. 
Stipules scarious. Leaves radical, rosulate (except in IJ. binata) the stems 
or stock dying away below the rosette or rarely persisting and densely 
covered with the dried remains of the old leaves and stipules. 
Scape glabrous, filiform, with 1 minute 4-merous flower. Styles 4, un- 
divided 3. D. pygmcea. 
Scape filiform, with a short loose almost corymbose raceme of 2 to 4 
flowers. Leaves obovate or orbicular. 
Scape glandular, with longer white hairs 4. 7). Lovellce. 
Scapes attaining several inches. Pedicel very short. Calyx above 1 line long. 
Styles. 5, simple, fringed at the stigmatic end 5. D. Burmanni. 
Styles 3 or 4, divided to the base into 2 branches, entire or forked at 
the end 6. D. spathulata. 
Racemes, especially the calyxes, softly villous. Styles 3, dichotomous. 
Leaves orbicular, the petioles long, woolly-hairy as well as the stipules . 7-. Z>. petiolaris. 
Scape tall, with a loose cyme. Leaves linear, forked or dichotomous. 
Styles divided into a dense tuft of numerous lobes 8. D. binata. 
Sect. II. Erg’aleium.— Stock short, slender, stem-like, naked or with rayyed remains of old 
petioles, forming (usually if not ahcays) a bulb at the lower end and producing at the upper end a 
rosette of leaves and leafless scapes, or leafy stems or branches. Stipules none (or in D. Banksii 
small and evanescent). Styles dichotomous oi • divided into very numerous filiform branches, 
forming a dense tuft. 
(Nearly all the species of this section dye the paper in which they are preserved a rich 
carmine or purple colour.) 
Rootstock terminating in a single or branched leafy flowering stem. Lower 
leaves reduced to short linear-subulate or linear-lanceolate scales or (in 
the first 2 species) rosulate and not peltate. Stem-leaves peltate, on 
filiform petioles, often clustered in the axils. 
Stem-leaves linear-peltate, i.e. broadly crescent-shaped or at least with 2 
prominent angles. Lower leaves, when present, rosulate, not peltate. 
Racemes simple, the pedicels all short. 
Sepals entire, glabrous. Seeds narrow-linear 9. Z). auriculata. 
Sepals toothed, villous or nearly glabrous. Seeds ovoid 10. D. peltata. 
Stem-leaves orbicular-peltate, without angles, the lower ones not rosulate, 
often reduced to narrow acute scales. Flowers few, small, in a simple 
raceme, lower pedicels short. Stipules often to the upper leaves. Styles 
not much divided 11. D. Banksii. 
1. B. indica (first met with in India), Linn.; DC. Prod. i. 319 ; Benth. FI. 
Austr. ii. 456. Leafy stems, from a few inches to 1 or nearly 2ft. long. Leaves 
linear, acuminate, often several inches long, fringed with the glandular cilite of 
the genus, either quite to the base or leaving a short glabrous petiole, often half 
stem-clasping, but not sheathing. Stipules none. Flowers in loose, lateral, 
often leaf-opposed racemes, short and few-flowered, or long with more numerous 
flowers, glabrous or glandular-pubescent. Pedicels longer than the calyx. 
Sepals narrow, about \\ line long in flower, 2 lines in fruit. Anthers oblong- 
linear. Styles 8, divided to the base, each into 2 filiform branches, dilated and 
stigmatic on the inner side at the end. Seeds obovoid, with a close testa. 
Planch, in Ann. Sc. Nat. ser. 3, ix. 204 ; Wight, 111. t. 20 C.; F. v. M. PI. Viet, 
i. 58 ; P. serpens, Planch, l.c. 
Hab.: Islands of the Gulf of Carpentaria, Shoalwater Bay and Keppel Bay. II. Brown ; Lizard 
Island (plants small) ; Endeavour River, It. Brown, A. Cunningham ; Port Curtis, M'Gillivray ; 
Rockhampton, Tliozet ; Broadsound, Bowman ; and many other localities both north and south. 
Common in F.ast India and the Archipelago, extending as far as Amoy, in China, and also in 
vari us parts of tropical Africa. The Ausiralian specimens are usually larger, with longer 
racemes and larger flowers than the Indian ones, but not always so, and there is no other 
difference. — Benth. 
