Drosera. | DROSERACEAE. ISS? : ATT 
elandular hairs, lower half glabrous ; petadle almost as broad as the blade ; 
early leaves shorter and broader, sométimes quite glabrous. Seape 2-6 in. 
high, slender, 1-flowered or very, arely 2-flowered. Hlowezs din. diam., 
white. Calyx divided almost te the base ; lobes 4, linear-oblong. Petals 
oblong or obovate, slightly ceeding the calyx. Styles 3-4, short; stig- 
mas broad.—lIc. Plant. ( t. 56; Hook. f. £l. Nov. Zel. i (1853) 20; FI. 
Tasm. i (1860) 28; Handb. N.Z. Fl. (1864) 63 ; Benth. Fl. Austral. i (1864) 
466: T. Kirk Students’ Fl. (1899) 145; Cheesem. Man. N.Z. Fl. (1906) 145 ; 
Tl. N.Z. Fl. i (1914) t. 45a; Drels on Pflanzenr. Heit 26 (1906) 63, t. 21. 
D. polyneura Col. in Trans. N.Z. Inst. xxii (1890) 460. D. Ruahinensis 
Col. l.c. xxviii (1896) 593. D. ligulata and D. atra Col. Lc. xxxi (1899) 269. 
Norra Istanp: Mountain-bogs at high levels around Tongariro, Ngauruhoe, and 
Ruapehu, Petrie! T. F. C., Cockayne ; Ruahine and Tararua Mountains, Colenso / 
Olsen! B.C. Aston! Sovutu Isutanp, Stewart ISLAND: Abundant in mountain-bogs 
throughout. Altitudinal range usually from 2000 to 5000 ft., but descends almost 
to sea-level on Stewart Island. Also not uncommon in the higher mountain districts 
of New South Wales, Victoria, and Tasmania. 
3. D. pygmaea DC. Prodr. i (1824) 317.—A very minute stemless 
species forming flat rosettes 4-$in. diam. Leaves numerous, densely 
crowded; petioles short, slender; limb 4-71. diam., upper surface 
covered with glandular hairs ; stipules large, scarious, deeply iobed, forming 
a beautiful silvery cone in the centre of the rosette. Scapes 1-4, glabrous, 
filiform, 4-2in. high, 1-flowered. Flowers minute, white. Calyx 4-lobed. 
Petals slightly longer than the calyx. Styles 4, short, clavate. Capsule 
oblong, 4-valved.—Hook. f. Fl. Nov. Zel. 1 (1853) 20; Handb. N.Z. #1. 
(1864) 63; Benth. Fl. Austral. ii (1864) 457; 7. Kirk Students’ Fl. (1899) 
146; Cheesem. Man. N.Z. Fl. (1906) 145; Ill. N.Z. Fl. 1 (1914) +. 468; 
Diels in Pflanzenr. Heft 26 (1906) 65, t. 22. 
Norrs IstANp: In moist peaty swamps. Near Cape Maria van Diemen, Colenso ! 
Te Paua, Parengarenga Harbour, 7’. P. C. ; Ahipara, H. Carse and R. H. Maithews ! 
peaty localities at Waimarino, #. Phillips Turner / Soutn Isuanp: Bluff Hill, 7. Kirk / 
A beautiful little plant, probably not uncommon in most peaty situations, but 
easily overlooked. It is not uncommon in south-eastern Australia and Tasmania. 
4. D. spathulata Lab. Nov. Holl. Pl. i (1804) 79, t. 106, i. 1.—Stem- 
less. Leaves numerous, crowded, rosulate, }-?in. long; blade j-jin., 
spathulate or obovate or orbicular-obovate, narrowed into a broad and 
flat petiole of varying length, upper suriace and margins covered with 
glandular hairs; stipules scarious, narrow, laciniate. Scapes 1 or several, 
1-6 in. high, usually bearing a secund raceme of 3-7 flowers, but often 2-3- 
flowered or even 1-flowered. Flowers small, }in. diam., white or rose. 
Calyx deeply divided ; lobes 5, linear-oblong. Petals 5, rather longer than 
the calyx. Styles 3, 2-partite almost to the base, branches entire or again 
forked.—Hook. f. Fl. Nov. Zel. i (1853) 20; Handb. N.Z, fl. (1864) 63; 
Benth. Fl. Austral. ii (1864) 459; T. Kirk Students’ Fl. (1899) 146; Cheesem. 
Man. N.Z. Fl. (1906) 146. D. propinqua R. Cunn. Precur. (1838) n. 620. 
D. minutula Col. in Trans. N.Z. Inst. xxi (1889) 81. D. triflora Col. L.c. 
xxii (1890) 461. 
Norra anp Sours Isuanps, Stewart IstanpD: From Mangonui southwards, but 
often local. Sea-level to 4500 ft. November—January. Also in Australia and _ 
Tasmania. 
Mountain specimens are often much reduced in size, with shorter and broader 
leaves, 1-2-flowered scapes, and broader calyx-lobes; but they pass by insensible 
gradations into the ordinary form. 
