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supernumerary ones in an outer row, twisted-imbricate in aestivation, J-J inch long’, lanceolate, often oblique, 
acute or acuminate, gTeen or brownish, black in drying, equally membranous, rarely on one or on both edges 
petaloid, occasionally with one or two acute teeth, closing over the ovary after fecundation, spreading during 
anthesis. Petals 5, rarely 6, j-f inch long, pure-white, glabrous; with an extremely short greenish claw, 
obovate or obcordate-ovate, or obovate-cuneate, rarely obcordate ; the sinus either very shallow or deep and 
acute, stretching occasionally to' J of the length rarely to near the base of the petals. Stamens frequently 5, 
rarefy 3, 4 or 6. Filaments subulate-filiform, white, only 1-1| line long. Anthers cordate, extrorse; their 
cells ellipsoid, yellow, about line long, free towards the base and at the very apex, above the base adnate to 
the rather broad white connective, which occasionally is terminated by a subulate appendix, formed by the 
elongated connective. Pollen-grains globose, three-ftirrowed, minutely granulated. Segments of the stigma 
very numerous (60-80), hyaline, line long, most of them disconnected, but a few connate even to above 
the middle, thread-like, blunt, smooth, transparent, a little dilated at the apex, forming a beard at the apex 
of the ovary. Capsule nearly globose, shorter than the sepals, by which it is enveloped. Seeds reticulate, 
black when ripe. Testa thick, before maturity cellulose, succulent, equally surrounding the nucleus. 
In flower from July to September. 
Very near in its affinity to D. bulbosa (Hook. Icon. 375), which differs in generally smaller leaves, 
shorter than the peduncles. D. rosidata (Lehm. Pugill. viii. 36) approaches still nearer to it ; the differences 
of the latter seem to consist mainly in smaller leaves and flowers, in stamens of nearly the same length as 
the sepals and in dark-brown anthers. 
The tuber of D. Whittakerii is used by the aborigines for coloring various articles. Spirits of wine 
extracts from it a beautiful red pigment. The tuber, like that of D. porrecta, leaves on paper a purple tinge. 
Supplemental Plate VI. 1, tuber with outer layers; 2, the same without outer scales; 3, transverse 
section of whole tuber; 4, leaf seen from below; 5, leaf seen from above; 6, sepals; 7, semipetaloid sepals; 
8, petals; 9, flower seen from above; 10, stamens; 11, pollen-grains; 12, styles; 13, stamens and pistil; 
14, styles seen from above; 15, transverse section of ovary; 16, vertical section of ovary; 17, fruit; 18, bursted 
cupsule; 19, seeds; 20, transverse section of seed; 21, vertical section of seed: all figures except 1-3 more 
or less magnified . 
Drosera Arcturi, Hook . Joum. of Bot . i. 247; Icon. Plant . 56; Planchon, in Annul, des Scienc. 
Natur. ix. 91; J. Hook. Flor. of New Zeal. i. 20; FI or. Tasm. i. 29. 
Rhizome perennial, often creeping, passing into a short leafy stem; leaves few or several, alternate, 
crowded; the upper ones broad- or oblong-linear, blunt, ciliated and above glandulously downy; lower leaves 
smaller, glabrous, almost lanceolate, all tapering into a broad-linear channelled clasping glabrous petiole or 
vagina; stipules wanting; peduncles one-fiowered, stout-filiform, of nearly the same or double the length of 
the leaves, as well as the large generally pentamerous flower glabrous; sepals not much shorter than the 
white petals; stamens hypogynous, about as long as the calyx; styles 3, free; stigmas kidney-shaped, 
papillose ; capsule ovate, above the middle three- or four-valved, longer than the calyx, many-seeded; 
placentae linear; seeds ovate, margined by the expanded testa. 
In places boggy or irrigated by melting snow, or on the mossy banks of alpine rivulets and ponds, at 
an elevation from 5000 to 7000 feet; for instance, on Mount Hotham and Mount La Trobe, and on other alps 
of the Bogong Mountains, also in the Munyang Ranges. In New South Wales, on Mount Kosciusko; in 
Tasmania, in many of the highest mountains, as far south as Mount Laperouse (Oldfield); also in the alps of 
New Zealand. 
An erect or ascendent herb, often imbedded in Sphagnum, sending out a flexuose tortuose or straightly 
descendent or horizontal or creeping rhizome, from which many filiform fibres arise. Stems short, passing 
gTadually into the root, densely covered with the remnants of vaginae. Leaves 1-4 inches long, l|-6 lines 
broad, one-nerved, veined, contiguous to the broad petiole. Peduncles 1 or a few to each plant, arising’ 
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