Drosophyllum
(from drosos, dew, and phyllon, a leaf; in allusion to the leaves being beset with stipitate glands, appearing like dew). ORD. Droseraceae. A remarkable and very pretty sub-shrubby greenhouse plant, thriving in a light sandy loam. Propagated by seed. It should he kept somewhat dry, and no shading will be needed.
D. lusitanicum (Portuguese).* fl. yellow, large, disposed in a corymb at the top of a leafy stem, which attains 1ft. in height. Summer. l. elongate, linear, attenuated, circinate and revolute in vernation. Stem thick, woody, 2in. to 3in. high, at the top of which are the leaves. Spain, Portugal, and Africa, 1869. This--one of the most singular plants of the European flora--inhabits sandy shores and dry rocks by the sea and inland. The nature of the glandular hairs is different from that of the Droseras; their rigid pedicels not being endowed with the motive power of the British and other species of the genus just mentioned. "A still more anomalous character is to be found in the way the leaves are developed in the bud, being circinate and revolute, not involute, as in our Droseras, in Ferns, Cycads, and other plants; and of this mode of development Drosophyllum is, in so far as I know, the only example in the vegetable kingdom" (J. D. Hooker). (B. M. 5796.)