474 XCIV. LENTIBULARIE® (STAPF). | Utricularia. 
in tufts at and near the base of the peduncle, short and scarcely 
branched ; stolons, leaves and bladders unknown. Peduncle straight or 
nearly so, filiform, simple, 3-1-flowered; barren bracts few, remote, like 
the fertile ovate, about lin. long; bracteoles somewhat narrower than 
the bract. Sepals subequal, rotundate-elliptic to suborbicular, 1y-13 
lin. Jong. Corolla pale purple with a large yellow palate, about 9 lin. 
long; upper lip obovate, subemarginate, constricted towards the base, 
over 24 lin. long; lower lip suborbicular, up to 43 lin. long and 5 lin. 
broad, spreading ; palate double-crested, crest transversely rugose ; oe 
straight, subhorizontal, cylindric, acute, 3 lin. long. Anthers over $ lin. 
long. Style about as long as the stigma; anticous stigmatic lobe broad- 
ovate. Capsule and seeds unknown.—Stapf in Hook. Ic. Pl. t. 2796, 
figs. 16-17. U. sanguinea, 8. Moore in Journ. Bot. 1903, 409, not of 
Oliver. 
Mozamb. Dist. Mashonaland: in running water, near Salisbury, Rand, 
517! 
Also in the Transvaal. 
2, U. odontosperma, Stupf. A delicate, small herb, 3-7 1. 
high. Stolons tinely filiform, branched, forming small matted tutts, 
hidden among moss; rhizoids numerous from the base of the scapes, 
3-4 lin. long. Leaves one at the base of the scape and others scattered 
on the stolons, persistent or decayed at the time of flowering; blades 
narrowly linear, gradually narrowed into the petiole, obtuse, 14-25 ln. 
long, under } lin. broad; petiole up to 34 lin. long, very slender. 
Bladders from the stolons, and sometimes from the leaves (particularly 
the petioles), globose-ovoid, up to 4 lin. long, stalk short to almost as long 
as the bladder, mouth distinctly 2-lipped, lips fimbriate; lower lip 
much smaller than the upper; scape straight or slightly flexuous, simple, 
with very few and obscure scales, distantly 4—1-flowered ; bracts and 
-bracteoles ovate-lanceolate, acute, almost 4 lin. long; pedicel slightly 
exceeding the bract, at length up to 1 lin. long. Sepals about 1-1} hn. 
long, obtuse, the upper ovate-orbicular, the lower more elliptic and often 
smaller. Corolla purple (2), 5 lin. long; upper lip 23-3 lin. long, base 
broad, blade obovate, rounded, occupying one-half of the lip; lower lip 
subquadrate or rounded, 3-34 lin. long, more or less parallel to the 
spur, palate obliquely raised, gaping wide, double-crested, crests 
tubercled or rugose ; spur suddenly contracted from a very broad cone 
base, upper half cylindric, obtuse, 2~24 lin. long; anthers } lin. long 5 
filaments 1 lin. long, filiform. Style stout, distinctly shorter than the 
stigma ; upper stigma-lip ovate, half as long as the large orbicular oF 
obovate lower lip; capsule globose, 14 lin. long; seeds irregular heml- 
Spheric or hemi-ellipsoid, top orbicular or elliptic with a narrow many- 
toothed margin, the teeth consisting of stout, short papillz. 
Mozamb. Dist. (ierman East Africa: between Lake Tanganyika and Lake 
‘i . ! 
Rukwa, Nutt! British Central Africa : Nyasaland ; Shire Highlands, Buchanan: 
Blantyre, Last ! 
