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XLVII. DRORERACE.E. 
[ Drosera . 
usually 3, divided into numerous dichotomous lobes, some very short, others 
longer, clavate or forked at the stigmatic end. Capsule globular. Seeds very 
numerous, small and linear. — DC. Prod. i. 319 ; Bot. Mag. t. 3082 ; Planch, in 
Ann. Sc. Nat. ser. 3, ix. 206 ; Hook. f. FI. Tasm. i. 29 ; F. v. M. PI. Viet. i. 59 ; 
D. pedatn, Pers. Syn. i. 337 ; DC. Prod. i. 319 ; D. dichotoma, Sm. in Rees’ 
Cyclop, xii. 
Hab.: Common in the coastal swamps of south Queensland. 
The species is also in New Zealand. The Port Jackson specimens have the leaves usually 
dichotomous, in the southern ones they are more frequently ‘2-lobed only ; but these differences 
are by no means constant, and the two forms occur sometimes on the same specimen. — Benth. 
9. D. auriculata (auriculate), Backh.: Planch, in Ann. Sc. Nat. ser. 3, 
ix. 295 ; Benth. FI. Austr. ii. 465. Bulbous, with a slender stock. Leafy stem 
erect, simple or slightly branched, ^ to ljft. high, glabrous. Lower leaves at the 
summit of the stock either all reduced to short linear scales or forming a small 
rosette, with orbicular almost reniform or peltate laminte and short petioles. 
Stem -leaves scattered, peltate, broadly crescent-shaped or at least truncate on one 
side, the 2 angles more or less produced into glandular-ciliate appendages, the 
petiole filiform. Flowers several, white, in a terminal simple raceme. Pedicels 
at length exceeding the calyx, the lower ones not much longer than the others. 
Sepals attaining 2 lines or rather more in fruit, glabrous, entire or scarcely 
glandular-toothed. Styles divided from a little below the middle into a dense 
tuft of short dichotomous linear lobes. Seeds very numerous, narrow-linear, the 
loose testa extending beyond the nucleus at one or both ends. — Hook. f. FI. Tasm. 
i. 30; F. v. M. PI. Viet. i. 61. 
Hab.: Southern Queensland. Flowering in March. 
Also in New Zealand. This species scarcely differs, except in the seed, from those forms of 
D. peltata which have nearly glabrous sepals. — Benth. 
10. D. peltata (leaves peltate), Sm. in Willd. Spec. PI. i. 1546 ; Benth. 
FI. Austr. ii. 465. Bulbous, with a slender rootstock. Leafy stem erect or 
flexuose, ^ to l^ft. high. Lower leaves at the summit of the rootstock usually 
rosulate, orbicular or reniform, not peltate, 2 to 3 lines diameter, on a broad 
petiole often longer than the lamina ; stem-leaves peltate, semiorbicular or broadly 
crescent-shaped, on slender or filiform petioles. Flowers white, in loose simple 
racemes. Pedicels usually exceeding the calyx. Sepals attaining about 2 lines, 
or more in the large-flowered specimens, ciliate- toothed, and more or less clothed 
with rather long soft hairs. Styles short, densely dichotomous from below the 
middle, the ultimate branches shortly linear-clavate. Seeds very numerous, 
small, ovoid or globular, the testa not produced beyond the nucleus. — Sm. Exot. 
Bot. i. 79, t. 41 ; DC. Prod. i. 319 ; Hook. f. FI. Tasm. i. 30 ; F. v. M. PI. Viet, 
i. 60 ; D. petiolaris, Sieb. PI. Exs. (which includes also D. auriculata) ; D. lunata, 
Hook. Ic. PI. t. 54, and probably also Hamilt. (Buchan.) in DC. Prod. i. 319. 
Hab.: Southern Queensland. 
Var. gracilis. Stems slender. Flowers much smaller. — D. gracilis, Hook. f. in Planch. Ann. 
Sc. Nat. ser. 3, ix. 297, and FI. Tasm. i. 30, t. 5. This form is represented by Labillardifere, 
PI. Nov. Holl. t. 106, f. 2. 
Yar. foliosa. Short and stout, with larger leaves and fewer flowers. — I), foliosa, Hook. f. in 
Planch. Ann. Sc. Nat. ser. 3, ix. 298, and FI. Tasm. i. 30, t. 6. 
The species appears to extend over E. India and the Archipelago to S. China, for I can find no 
character whatever to distinguish the common D. lunata, Ham , of that country. The rosulate 
leaves are indeed less frequently present at the time of flowering, but are to be found in some 
specimens, and are not always constant in the Australian ones. The sepals and styles are the 
same in both.— Benth. 
11. D. Banksii (after Sir Joseph Banks), R. Br. in DC. Prod. i. 319 ; 
Benth. FI. Austr. ii. 469. Stem filiform, leafy, glabrous, 2 to 4in. long, very 
slender at the base, but possibly forming a bulb as in the preceding species. 
Leaves all scattered, peltate, orbicular, on slender petioles, the lower ones with a 
