476 XC1V. LENTIBULARIE& (STAPF). [ Utricularia. 
orbicular to ovate-orbicular, lower elliptic. Corolla purple or purple and 
yellow, 24-5 lin. long, upper lip 14-2 lin. long, obovate, rounded or sub- 
marginate, constricted below the middle; lower lip subquadrate or rounded, 
1}—2 lin. long, more or less parallel to the spur, palate much raised, usually 
to an acute angle, and parallel to the upper lip, double-crested, crests 
dark, minutely tubercled; spur straight or almost so, conic, often broad, as 
long as or longer than the lower lip. Anthers }—} lin. long ; filaments 
filiform, }—2 lin. long. Style about as long as the stigma ; upper stigma- 
lip oblong or ovate, $ as long as the large, rotundate lower lip. Cap- 
sule globose, } lin. in diam. ; seeds irregularly hemi-ellipsoid or shortly 
pyramidal, angular, }-3 lin. long, top flat, more or less elliptic, with a 
fine membranous or obscure margin. Embryo-top flat or slightly con- 
cave.—Kam. in Engl. Jahrb. xxxiii. 99; Stapf in Dyer, FI. Cap. Iv. ll. 
427, and in Hook. Ic. Pl. t. 2795, figs. 5-12. U. elevata, Kam. lL. 
includ. var. Wacowani. 
Nile Land. Abyssinia: Shireh, in swamps, Schimper, 1943! swampy places 
on the mountains above Salamanka, 8100 ft., Schimper, 1149! Somaliland, Miss 
Edith Cole! 
Also in the Transvaal. The Abyssinian specimens agree very well in habit with 
the form, described by Kamienski as U. elevata ; but the corolla was evidently yellow 
and purple. 
5. U. Kirkii, Stapf in Dyer, Fl. Cap. iv. ii. 428. A delicate, 
dwarf, terrestrial herb, 1-5 in. high. Stolons filiform, branched ; 
rhizoids capillary from the base of the scapes. Leaves scattered on the 
stolons, often decayed at the time of flowering; blades spathulate- 
cuneate, up to 1) lin. long and 4 lin. broad, gradually narrowed into 
the usually long and slender petiole. Bladders on the leaves, ovoid- 
globose, } lin. long, 2-lipped ; upper lip suborbicular ; lower very small, 
both fringed ; mouth opposite the stalk. Scape straight or flexuous, 
simple with very few minute scales, 5—1-flowered ; flowers rather distant, 
if 4 or 5, scattered over the upper half of the scape; bracts and 
bracteoles subequal, lanceolate, acute, usually under $ lin. long : pedicels 
almost as long as or at last somewhat longer than the bract. Sepals 
1 lin. long, obtuse (rarely the upper subacute); upper ovate-orbicular 
to orbicular ; lower elliptic. Corolla pale purple with a darker upper 
lip, 1)—25 lin. long, upper lip constricted below the middle, upper part 
somewhat fleshy, obovate-oblong to obovate-quadrate, about 1 lin. long, 
palate almost parallel to the upper lip, double crested, crests minutely 
but distinctly tubercled; spur 14 lin. long, suddenly narrowed from a 
broad conic base into the slender cylindric turned-up more or less 
obtuse upper half. Style shorter than the stigma ; upper stigma-lip 
oblong, about } the length of the lower suborbicular lower lip. Capsule 
globose, up to over 1 lin. in diam. ; seeds shortly truncate-conic, often 
angular, top face elliptic or suborbicular, about } lin. long with a fine 
margin or a fine simple rim; embryo-top flat or slightly concave.— 
Stapf in Hook. Ic. Pl. t. 2795, fig. 13. U. ewilis, Kam. in Engl. Jahrb. 
xxxiii. 97 (Rehmann, 6599, not Oliv.); var. Heklonii, Kam. l.c. 98 
(Kirk's plant); var. hirsuta, Kam. Le. 
