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PLANTS INDIGENOUS TO 
[Droseracea. 
solitary from tlie axis of one of the upper leaves, thus apparently terminal, persistent throughout the year, 
from 1 to nearly 6 inches long, fistulose, near the apex often furnished with a solitary lanceolate-linear 
channelled sessile bract, which varies in length from 1-1J line. Flowers variable in size, but always rather 
large. Sepals 3-5 lines long, sometimes more lanceolate, sometimes more oblong, occasionally oval, always 
more or less connate at the base, rarely 6 in number, occasionally" with a few sharp teeth at the apex. Petals 
white, ovate in our specimens, but naiTow-spathulate or oblong-cuneate according to the descriptions and 
figure in the works above quoted, to J or rarely 1 their length exserted, frilly \ inch or less long. Semens 
persistent as in the generality of the species. Filaments white, subulate-linear, one-nerved. Anthers 
vitellinous, ovate-cordate, J-J line long. Styles stout, very short, undivided, 3-4, black in age. Stigmas 
white when fresh, undivided, renate or occasionally more cordate, incurved, line long. Gennen green. 
Capsule variable in size according to the size of the plant. Seeds nearly ovate, line long, blackish, 
bluntly winged by the expansion of the testa, somewhat wrinkled, tapering at the base; the expansion almost 
as broad as the nucleus. 
Nearest to the also alpine D. stenosepala of New Zealand, which differs in truly radical leaves on 
longer and narrower stalks, in not even to the middle five-cleft calyces and in divided stigmas, and according 
to Dr. Hooker’s description in perigynous insertion of petals and stamens. 
Flowers produced in December and January. 
Drosera Zndica, Linne , Flor. Zeylan. p. 51; J. Hook. et Thomson , in Proceedings of Linnean 
Society , ii. 82; D. hexagyna, Blanco , Flor. Filipin. ed. ii. 159, according to Planchon; D. Finlaysoni, 
Wallich , in Wight. Illustr. of Ind. Bot . i. 44; D. serpens, Planch, in Annul, des Scienc. Nat. ix. 204; 
D. angmstifolia, F. M. in Transact. Phil. Soc. Viet. i. 7. 
Root annual, fibrous; stem ascendent or decumbent, scantily downy; stipules wanting; learn all 
alternate , long-linear , undivided , long contracted into the very acute apex, sessile or much longer than the 
continuous puberulous fringeless petiole; peduncles lateral , solitary, as well as the simple raceme slightly 
glandulous-pubescent; pedicels longer than the deeply" 5-cleft caly^x; petals white or red, or purple, rather 
large; styles 3, bifid to near the base , with incurved stigmatose capillary lobes$ capsule to below the middle 
3-valved; placentae oblong; testa close; seeds minute, nearly ovate, reticulated. 
In moist gravelly localities around the fresh-water lakes near Eustone on the Murray River, rare; 
beyond Victoria, scattered over North Australia (for instance, on the River Victoria, Hooker’s Creek, Sturt’s 
Creek, towards the Gulf of Carpentaria, &c.); also in the Indian continent and archipelago, and according 
to Planchon in Western tropical Africa. 
Root subfasciculate- or alternate-fibrous, descendent, 1 inch or less long. Stem from 2 inches to nearly 
1 foot long, rarely longer, generally simple, according to various descriptions also branched, lax, gradually 
tapering at the base, which is foliate with closely approximated and shorter leaves, y r et not producing a leaf- 
verticille. Leaves rather crowded along' the stem, not dissimilar in form to those of D. filiformis (Raf.), 
without any true petiole, although the basal portion to the length of J—1 inch is sometimes denuded of the 
marginal fringes, little or not tapering into the base, 2-6 inches long; the upper ones the longest; the lower 
oftened shortened to 1 inch; all, exclusive of fringes, from f-li line broad, long-pointed into a linear- 
setaceous apex, which is remarkably coiled in vernation, above and at the margin glandulously downy, 
beneath glabrous, in age longitudinally flat-replicate. Racemes few- or many-flowered, in exceptional cases 
reduced to a single flower, lateral, either almost opposite to a leaf or alternate with the leaves, from 1-8 
inches long*. Peduncles varying in length between 1 and 6 inches; but the greatest dimensions stated here 
of peduncles and racemes occur not simultaneously in the same inflorescence. Bracts 1-11 line long, 
solitary at or near the base of some of the pedicels, linear-subulate or setaceous. Pedicels spreading, slender, 
when flower-bearing 3—6 lines long, when fruit-bearing nearly" twice as long', the lowermost often longer 
than the rest. Segments of calyx 11—2 lines long, not rarely toothed with a few irregular serrattires towards 
