XXVI. DROSERACEA:. 
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A remarkable but small Order, of which the prevalent characters alone are given above, 
and these apply to all the New Zealand species ; a few northern and Cape genera present 
some remarkable exceptions, as shrubby habit, petals connate at the base, epipetalous 
stamens, 3-celled few-ovuled ovary, and minute embryo. 
1. DROSERA, Linn. 
Stamens 4-8. Styles 2 or 3, bipartite or multifid. 
Au extensive genus (Sundew) found in all parts of the world, but most abundaut in 
Australia. 
Scape 1 -flowered. Calyx campanulate, 5-lobed. Styles 3, multifid . 1. D. stenopetala . 
Scape 1 -flowered. Leaves linear. Styles 3 or 4, stigmas capitate . . 2. _D. Arcturi. 
Scape 1-flowered. Leaves orbicular. Styles 4, stigmas subclavate . . 3. D. pyt/mata. 
Scape many-flowered. Leaves spathulate. Styles 3, bipartite . 4. B. spathulata. 
Scape many-flowered. Leaves bipartite 5. 1). binata. 
Scape many-flowered. Leaves lunate. Styles 3, peuicillate .... 6. D. auriculata. 
1. D. stenopetala, Hook. f. FI. N. Z. i. 19. t. ix. Stemless. 
Leaves with the slender glabrous petiole 1-4 in. long ; blade spathulate, 
•§— f in. long, densely clothed with long, glandular hairs. Scape slender, 
longer than the leaves, 1-flowered. Flowers -§• in. diam. Calyx campanu- 
late, 5-lobed, glabrous. Petals very narrow, linear-spathulate. Styles 3, mul- 
tifid to the base. 
Middle Island : Port Preservation, Lyall. Lord Auckland’s group, J. I). II., 
Bolton. Very nearly indeed allied to the Fuegian D. unijlora. 
2. D. Arcturi, Hook. Ic. PI. t. 56 ; — FI. N. Z. i. 20. Stemless ; rhi- 
zome long, slender. Leaves 2-3 in. long, linear-ligulate or linear-spathulate, 
covered with long glandular hairs ; petiole almost as broad as the blade. 
Scape about as long as the leaves, 1-flowered. Flowers nearly in. diam. 
Petals obovate, as long as the calyx. Styles 3 or 4, short ; stigmas capitate. 
Northern Island: Buahine mountains, near the snow, Colenso. Middle Island: 
common in wet places on the mountains, alt. 3500-5000 ft. Also a native of the Tasmanian 
and the Australian alps. 
3. D. pygmsea, DC. ; — FI. N. Z. i. 20. A very small, stemless species. 
Leaves densely crowded, rosulate, shortly petioled, orbicular, concave, sub- 
peltate, L in. diam. ; stipules very large, scarious, forming a beautiful silvery 
star round the base of the scape. Scape filiform, 1 in. high. Flower solitary, 
minute. Sepals 4, oblong, obtuse, glabrous, shorter than the white petals. 
Styles 4, filiform, subclavate. 
Northern Island : in marshes at Cape Maria Van Diemen, Colenso. Also a native of 
the south coast of Australia and Tasmania. 
4. D. spathulata, Labill. ; — FI. N. Z.i.20. Stemless. Leaves rosu- 
late, densely crowded, in. long, spathulate, covered with glandular hairs. 
Scapes 1 or several, slender, simple or bifid, 8-15- (rarely 1-2-) flowered. 
Flowers shortly pedicelled, secund, 4 in. broad. Sepals united at the base. 
Petals spathulate, pink red or white, twice as long as the calyx. Styles 3, 
2-partite. — Bot. Mag. t. 5240; D. propinqua, A. Cunn. 
Wet places throughout the islands, but not very common, Banks and Solander, etc. ; 
ascending to 5000 ft. on the shingly banks of Lake Wanaka and Hawea, Uaasl'. A common 
Australian plant, also found in the Philippine Islands. 
