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PLANTS INDIGENOUS TO 
[Droseracea. 
flabellate than penicillar in their arrangement. Capsule turbinate- or depressed-globose, 1J—2 lines long. 
Seeds, compared in shape to file-dust by Planchon, blackish, reticulated, about 1 line long*, on account of the 
testa protruding* on the base and apex extremely narrow in proportion to their length. 
The resemblance of this species to the Indian D. lunata (Hamilt.) is very great 5 it differs from it as 
well as from D. peltata chiefly in the shape of the seeds. 
In flower during* September and October, and in higher mountainous localities in November. 
Drosera Flanciioni, J\ Hook, in Planck. Pros., Annal. Scienc. Nat. ix. 295; FI, Tasm. i. 29; 
D. Menziesii, Hook. Comp. Bot. Mag. 274; Icon. Plant. 53. 
Rhizome enveloped in copious membranes, tuberous at the base ; stems weak, generally simple, slender, 
decumbent or somewhat scandent, below leafless and glabrous, towards the summit scantily haiiy; stipules 
and radical leaves wanting*; stem-leaves peltate, orbicular , cup-shaped, or some transversely elliptical, laterally 
ternate, rarely geminate or solitary, shorter than the setaceous-filiform petiole; racemes terminal, solitary or 
twin, few flowered, subsessile or short pedunculate; pedicels as long* as or longer than the calyx; sepals 
hairy, fringed 1 petals large, white; stamens about as long as the calyx; style repeatedly di - or tricliotomous, 
with decompound capillary lobes of the stigma ; capsule to the base 3-valved; placentae elliptical; seeds 
constricted at the middle, with broadly and bluntly expanded testa at the extremities. 
In many localities within the boundaries of the Colony of Victoria, extending to the Murray; also 
throughout the greater part of South Australia, as far north as the Flinders Ranges; not common in 
Tasmania; not yet found in New Zealand or New South Wales. 
A perennial plant, amongst the most handsome of the genus, generally leaning on other plants for 
support. Rhizome a few inches long, cylindrical, simple, descendent, densely enveloped in several layers of 
scarious membranes. Stems filiform, 1-2 feet long*, at first often erect but soon decumbent by the weight of 
the developed plant, sometimes trailing, occasionally even climbing, always more or less flexuose, leafy from 
the apex to below the middle, towards the base provided with distant linear-subulate scales, which are about 
1 line long. Lower leaf of each fascicle on a longer petiole; the two other leaves axillary; petiole of the 
former inch long, of the latter 3-8 lines long, and still more slender; all spreading, often recurved, 
glabrous or scantily hairy. Leaves measuring without their long cilice 2—4 fines, above covered with short 
crisp glandular irritable hair, beneath glabrous. Number of flowers in the generally corymb-like raceme 
always few', occasionally reduced to tw r o. Pedicels ^-1 inch long, scantily producing short gland-bearing 
hair. Bracts spathulate- or lanceolate-cuneate or obovate or linear, generally 2-3 line 3 long, haiiy and 
fringed. Sepals 3-5 fines long, not rarely unequal, lanceolate or ovate, acute or obtuse, lacerate-fringed 
towards the apex, hairy at the back. Petals 5, rarely 6 , broad- or eordate-obovate, contracted from a cuneate 
base into a short unguis, often fully J inch long or even somewhat longer. Filaments linear-filiform, about 2 
fines long. Anthers cordate, intensely yellowy about f fine long*; their cells divergent towards the base. 
Style with addition of the stigma about 1J fine long, from the base branched into numerous repeatedly very 
tender segments, of which the upper ones are stigmatose, not dilated at the apex, forming a long-bearded 
stigma. Capsule globose, about 2 fines long. Placentae flat, stretching over the greater part of the valve. 
Seeds about 1 fine long, numerous, although not quite as many as in several other species, black, cylindrical 
towards the middle, where the testa is closely oppressed to the nucleus, at both extremities dilated to a double 
width by the ovate or roundish expansion of the testa. 
D. Menziesii (R. Br. in Cand. Prodr. i. 319; D. filicaufis, Endl. in Hueg. Enum. p. 6 ; Lelim. PI. 
Preiss. i. 255) differs in totally glabrous stems and racemes, generally smaller leaves, also somewhat smaller 
and often more copious flowers, but chiefly in having its style divided from the base into simple or simply 
divided at least not repeatedly decompound lobes. Its fruit, not available on this occasion for examining, 
may also offer marks of discrimination. 
In flower during* the rainy season. 
