THE COLONY OE VICTORIA. 
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Broseracece.] 
Drosera peltata, Smithy in Willd. Spec, Plant, 1546 5 Exotic Bot, i. t, 51 ; Cancl, Syst, i. 319; 
Planchon, in Annal, des Scienc, Nat, ix. 296; J, Hook, Flow Tasm. i. 30; D. lunata, Hook. Icon. t. 54; 
D. gracilis, J . Hook, and D. foliosa, J . Hook, in Plancli. Broser. p. 29 7 & 298; Flor. Tasvianica, i. 30; 
D. sulphur e a, Belir, in Linncea, xx. 629. 
Rhizome at the base with a spherical tuber; stem erect, leafy, glabrous, simple or branched; stipules 
wanting; radical leaves kidney-shaped or cordate-kidney-shaped; stem-leaves peltate, broadly semiorbicular- 
crescent-shaped, alternate or laterally ternate; petioles of the latter filiform, longer than the leaves; racemes 
terminal; pedicels longer than the calyx; sepals closely oppressed to the fruit, fimbriate, glabrous 01 pube¬ 
scent, disconnected; petals white or pink, as well as the stamens 5, hypogynous; styles -short, generally 3; 
stigmas penfcillar-many-cleft; capsule to the base 3- rarely 4- or 5-valved; seeds ovate; testa close, at the 
base attenuated. 
In fertile pastures and meadows; not rare in the Colony of Victoria; also in South Austialia, Tasmania 
and New South Wales, at least as far north as 26° S. 
An herb from a few inches to 1 foot high. Rhizome 1-3 inches long, descendent, filiform. Tubei 
measuring |-f inch, covered with dark dry scales; the surface of its solid portion beautifully shining red 
and smooth; the inside livid. Stems solitary or several from each root, flexuose. Petioles of radical leaves, 
which generally early perish, linear, 3-8 lines long; lamina 3-5 lines broad, 2-3 lines long. Petioles of 
stem-leaves spreading, from a few lines to f inch long, two generally in the axis of a longer third one, and 
generally the shortest and sometimes with an imperfect leaf. Lamina measuring without the comparativelj 
long cilife 2-4 lines, smooth beneath, glandulous-hairy above. Raceme 1J-4 inches long, provided with a 
peduncle of generally 1-2 inches length, sometimes very reduced in the number of flowers, usually furnished 
with small linear-subulate bracts opposite to or near the base of the pedicel. Fruit-pedicels 2-8 lines long. 
Sepals ovate or lanceolate, fringed, frequently downy, outside with blackish-green somewhat appressed 
straight hair, sometimes glabrous. Petals obovate-cuneate, generally about half exserted, but in a small- 
flowered variety very short. Stamens nearly half as long as the petals. Anthers yellow^. Stigma dissected 
into capillary liyalinous at the apex dilated smooth segments. Capsule 1J-2 lines long, nearly globose 01 
ovate-globose. Placentae ovate, flat, occupying the greater portion of the inner face of the valves. Seeds 
about \ line long, black, reticulated, blunt at the apex ; the testa protracted at the base into a minute stipes. 
In flow r er during September and October. 
Brosera auriculata, Backhouse, in Planch. Broserce, 295; D. peltata, Labill. Nov. Hold. Specim. 
i. p. 79, t. 106 (according to description). 
Rhizome at the base with a spherical tuber; stem erect, leafy, glabrous, simple or branched; stipules 
wanting; radical leaves kidney-shaped or cordate-kiclney-shaped; stem-leaves peltate, broadly semiorbicular- 
crescent-shaped, alternate or laterally ternate ; petioles of the latter filiform, longer than the leaves; racemes 
terminal; pedicels longer than the calyx; sepals glabrous,flexuose, laxly appressed to the fruit, disconnected; 
petals v T hite or pink, as well as the stamens 5 , hypogynous; styles short, generally 3; stigmas pemcillar- 
many-clefb; capsule to the base 3-rarely 4- or 5-valved; seeds cylindrical-subulate ; testa long protruding 
beyond the nucleus. 
In sandy soil, poor pasture land and on sterile ridges; not rare in the Colony of Victoria; also m bout 1 
Australia, Tasmania, New South Wales and New Zealand. 
In every respect, except the differential notes pointed out, so nearly allied to D. peltata, as to render a 
detailed description almost needless. Stems 11 foot high. Racemes geneiallj on longei peduncles than 
those of D. peltata, sometimes paniculate. Sepals about 2 lines long, at the summit often in e^ulail} toothec ; 
with their edges towards the base distant from each other. Petals tapering' like those of D. peltata into a 
very short yellow unguis. Filaments subulate, white. Anthers cordate-round, 5 line lon n , tellow, pale in 
age. Stigmas "with addition of the style nearly 1 line long; the lobes clavate-filifoim, occasional!) moie 
