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Oct 16' /74/ Byblis grandiflora gigantea Kew dry. Swan River. West. Austr.

Plants about 18 inches high with strong stem — leaves long or linear, slightly flattened with projecting rib on dorsal surface. — They terminate in small blunt knobs (!) — whole surface covered with small glands of 2 kinds— surface ones around arranged in lines, & others with moderately long pedicel. These pedicels f unicellular, (!) formed of most delicate membrane, the 2 sides when dry in closest union, & often spirally contracted now this dry. Contents of gl Glands much flattened thin, like membrane— with a many radiating cells. Glands on flower-peduncles — Glands small very numerous. — Glands with purple included matter, — Glands of structure of Pinguicula, showing no [illeg] of digestion & structure of pedicel, or presence of spiral vessel. — Pedicels about as long as diameter of upper extremity of leaf.— Terminal Knob are 1/3 wider than end of leaf. — Pedicels colourless, transparent. Drosera with its power of movement has beaten all others out.

[in margin:] I detached 2 flies adhering to glands — It is not possible any inflection. —

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This is a very primordial form as glands on all sides & not seated on prominences — all division lost. — No trace of divided leaf

[Insectivorous plants, pp. 343-4.]