A caulescent annual to 50 cm long, fairly widespread in West Africa from Senegal to N Nigeria in boggy sites, and is recorded from tropical Africa, Asia and Australia. It is an indicator of acid soil.All Drosera spp. are bitter and caustic to taste. Cattle do not graze them and in some hydrocyanic acid has been detected (1). D. indica is commonly used in Indian medicine as a powerful rubefacient (4, 5) and a macerate is applied topically on corns and warts in Indochina (2, 3).As one would expect of an insectivorous plant, proteolytic enzymes have been found in leaf-extract (6).