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the apex, lanceolate, acute, as well as the pedicels and peduncles scantily hairy with short gland-bearing* 
downs. Petals generally obovate-cuneate, twice as long as the calyx, or even longer, sometimes in size and 
color resembling D. cistiflora, white or pale rose-colored, or more saturated purplish-red, tapering into the 
unguiculate base. Stamens hardly longer than the calyx, rarely in luxurious specimens transformed into 
petals. Anthers yellow, J-J line long. Filaments very narrow linear, one-nerved. Segments of style 
considerably bent outward of the stamens, arched-uncinate, towards the apex longitudinally stigmatose. 
Capsule rather membranous, 1|-2| lines long, not much longer or as long or somewhat shorter than the 
calyx. Seeds many-seriate on the placentae, very numerous, about ± line long, black, opaque, at the base 
attenuated into a very short point, by seriate foveoles densely reticulated. 
'In flower at all seasons, although chiefly here during spring. 
Specimens transmitted from Amoy by Dr. Hance fully accord with the Murray plant, although this 
species is more variable in North Australia than in the South. Sir Will. Hooker (Kew Miscell. viii. p. 5) 
pointed out its probable identity with D. serpens. 
Drosera binata, Labillardi&re , Nov. Noll. Plant. Specbn, i. 78, 1 . 105; Hooh. Pot. Magaz. 3082; 
J. Hooh, Flor. New Zeal. i. 20; D. pedata, Persoon , Synops. Plant. 336 5 D. intermedia, A. Cunningli. in 
Annal. of Nat. History , iv. 109. 
Stemless,- root fasciculate-fibrous; stipules in front fimbriate , longitudinally connate 5 leaves on very 
long glabrous petioles, to the base divided into two elongate simply linear or deeply bipartite or dichotomous 
gradually long-acuminated segments ; peduncles very elongated, longer than the leaves, bearing at the 
summit 2-4 racemes ; sepals acute, glabrous, hardly as long as the stamens; petals large, white, generally 
more than half exserted; styles often 3 , penicillar-multifid; capsule globose, generally three-valved to the 
base, shorter than the calyx; seeds very numerous, linear-filiform ; nucleus several times shorter than the 
testa. 
In bog*gy springy localities, often growing in moss; for instance, in the Western Port district, at 
Wilson’s Promontory, in the Buffalo Ranges, the Grampians, at the Muddy Creek and King Parrot Creek, 
Ac. In South Australia, on the upper cataracts near Mount Lofty, and also at Encounter Bay; further, 
throughout Tasmania, and in several tracts of New Zealand, and in New South Wales, as far north as 
Moreton Bay. 
One of the most showy plants of this genus, varying in height from |-2 feet. Root seemingly perennial, 
consisting of long* fasciculate fibres, which exceed in thickness occasionally 1 line. Stipules membranous, 
brown, intra-axillaiy, 1A-3 lines long, of considerable breadth. Petioles of the developed plant 2-12 inches 
long, compressed-terete, often 1 line thick. Leaves consisting of two primary segments, which are either 
simply linear and rather erect, or deeply bifid or dichotomous, 1-4 inches long, hardly more than 1 line broad, 
long-ciliated by red gland-bearing hair, beneath glabrous, above glandulous-downy. Peduncle solitary, 
terete, glabrous, from 1J foot long, erect, not much thicker than the petioles. Inflorescence consisting* 
of united racemes, imitating* in division that of the leaves; the racemes all arising* from the summit of the 
peduncle, drawn into a spurious cyme or panicle, few-flowered or with several more or less crowded or 
distant flowers, and with about as many bracts, wiiich are standing singly opposite to the pedicels or 
removed from them, and are 1-11 line long, somew r hat fringed, the lower ones ovate or lanceolate, the upper 
ones more linear or subulate. Pedicels 2—12 lines long, moderately patent, glabrous. Sepals ovate or 
lanceolate, frequently acuminate, 2—4 lines long, generally 5, occasionally 1, more or less in number, at the 
apex irregularly lacerated into acute teeth or fringed, connate towards the base. Petals generally about 
three times as long as the calyx, obovate, according* to some descriptions also sometimes obcordate, short- 
and broad-unguiculate, veined, yellowish tow r ards the base. Filaments subulate-linear, one-nerved, almost 
wiiite. Anthers cordate, orange, at last yellow, wiien dry J—f line long. Styles about 1 line long, according 
to Labillardi£re also sometimes 4—5 in number, divided into numerous unequal capillary segments, which are 
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