56 PLANTS INDIGENOUS TO [Droseracece. 
Drosera pygmsea* Cand . Pvodv . i. 317 ; Planch• in Annul. des Scienc. Nut. ix. 94 $ J, Hook, 
FI. of New Zeal. i. 20. 
Stemless, very minute; root annual, fibrous; stipules scarious , lanceolate- or cuneate-linear, connate 
below the middle, thence longitudinally cleft into a few linear-setaceous lobes; leaves rosulate, orbicular, 
concave, peltate, shorter than the very narrow flat petiole; peduncles capillary one-fiowered y not downy, 
much longer than the leaves; fiowers minute , tetramerous ; sepals glabrous, entire; petals white or pink; 
stamens 4, hypogynous; styles 4, undivided, free, each passing into a filiform entire stigma; capsule to the 
middle four-valved, many-seeded; seeds ovate, minutely attenuated at the base, in age almost smooth and 
quite shining. 
In sandy temporary humid heath-ground; for instance, at the base of the Serra Range, at Port Albert; 
in South Australia, hitherto only found near Encounter Bay; in Tasmania, on several spots, as far south as 
South Port; in New Zealand, at Cape Maria van Diemen, according to J. Hooker’s Flora. 
A very remarkable species, smaller than any other Drosera, resembling with its extremely tender red 
peduncles and with its minute solitary capsule almost a moss. Root consisting of a single or several very 
tender capillary fibres. Leaves forming a tuft of J—1 inch width. Stipules 1-3 lines long, crowded in the 
centre of the tuft of leaves around the base of the peduncle, forming a whitish shining' brush. Petioles 2-5 
lines long, attenuated at the apex. Lamina of leaves measuring without the comparatively long cilice only 
1-1J line, above glandulously downy, beneath glabrous. Peduncles 1-2 inches long, single or several. 
Sepals about 1 line long, ovate or oblong, casually 5. Petals scarcely twice as long as the calyx, ovate, 
tapering into a narrow one-nerved base, veined. Stamens of the length of the catyx. Filaments linear¬ 
capillary. Anthers cream-colored, very minute, didymous-roundisli. United styles and stigmas about \ 
line long, ascendent, opposite to the petals. Capsule nearly globose, hardly 1 line long. Placentae rather 
small and uncertain in form. Seeds about J line long, very minutely reticulated, many, although not so 
numerous as in most other species, in comparison to the capsule rather large, pure-black. 
In flower during the spring and the early part of the summer. 
Drosera Wkittakerii, Planch, in Annal. des Scienc. Naturell. ix. 302; D. rosulata, Behr, in 
IAnncea , xx. 628. 
Stemless; tuber at the base of the rhizome, spherical; leaves large , rosulate , obovate- or spathulate - or 
rhomboid-cuneate , confluent with the broad glabrous rather short petiole; stipules none; peduncles one- 
flowered, generally as long as the leaves or somewhat longer; sepals acute or acuminate, glabrous; petals 
white, generally 5; stamens 5, hypogynous, several times shorter than the calyx, many times shorter than 
the large corolla; styles 3, short or almost obliterated; stigmas penicillar-multifid; capsule to the base 
three-valved; placentae ovate; seeds large, numerous, blunt at both points; testa close. 
Rather frequent in the southern parts of the Colonies of Victoria and of South Australia ; not yet found 
in Tasmania. 
Rhizome descendent, white or slightly red, about 1 line thick, 1—3 inches long', producing several short 
almost subulate scales, some lateral fibres and a few horizontal white flexuose runners, which are very rarely 
terminated by a few leaves. Tuber j—1 inch in diameter, enveloped in some layers of brownish brittle or 
membranous deciduous scales, outside shining, red-brown or bright red, inside dull or pale red. Leaves, 
including their petiolar base, ^—2 inches long, 3—1 inch broad, arranged in a rosette of a few rows, oppressed 
to the soil, green, or more or less tinged with red, beneath as well as the petiolar cuneate part glabrous, 
shining* and slightly streaked; the laminar portion rhomboid- or obovate-cuneate, J—§ inch broad, above and 
around the margin clothed with gland-bearing often red hair, of which those of the margin about 1 line long. 
Peduncles quite smooth, one or several, occasionally in luxuriant specimens numerous, always one-flowered, 
cylindrical, when flower-bearing erect, about as long as the leaves, seldom longer, when fruit-bearing 
prostrate and then somewhat longer than the leaves. Flowers scented. Sepals 5 , rarely 4, 6 or 7 , if so the 
