Utricularia. | XCIV, LENTIBULARIEE (STAPF). 479° 
¢ lin. in diam., smooth, reticulate (?).—Hiern in Cat. Afr. Pl. Welw. i. 
788; Kam. in Engl. Jahrb. xxxiil. 93, and in Baum, Kunene-Samb. 
Exped. 372. 
Lower Guinea. Angola: Huilla; near Lopollo, Welwitsch, 263! near the 
Kuebe River, 2900 ft., Baum, 305! 
Mozamb. Dist. (erman East Africa : lower plateau north of Lake Nyasa, 
Thomson ! 
9. U. firmula, Welw. ex Oliver in Journ. Linn. Soc. ix. 152. 
An annual, delicate, terrestrial herb. Rhizoids capillary, more or less 
branched. Leaves in scanty rosettes at the base of the scape and 
scattered on the rhizoids, usually decayed at the time of flowering,. 
obovate-spathulate to linear-spathulate, more or less gradually attenuated 
into the long very slender petiole, with it up to 4 lin, long, 4 lin. 
broad. Pitchers from the leaves and the rhizoids, ovoid, mouth narrow, 
upper lip short with 4 short rigid hairs; lower lip a naked rim. Scape 
filiform, simple or branched with the branches stiff and suberect, up to 
8 in. high, scales minute, lanceolate. Flowers usually numerous, up to 
20) or, in branched specimens, even more, 2-3 lin. distant ; bracts and 
bracteoles subequal, bracts ovate to ovate-lanceolate, bracteoles lanceo- 
late, 4 to over 4 lin. long; pedicels shorter than the bracts. Sepals 
orbicular, rather broader than long, very concave. Corolla 14-1? lin. 
long, yellow with an orange-coloured palate ; upper lip quadrate, 
slightly bilobed, emarginate or entire, fleshy, about $ lin. high, lower 
lip distinctly broader than long, slightly 3-lobed, $-2 lin. long; spur 
cylindric or conic-cylindrie from a short wide base, usually straight, 
descending, 1-14 lin. long. Anthers }-} lin. long. Pistil bottle- 
Shaped, with a short neck; stigma subsessile; upper lip small, ovate 
or shortly and broadly triangular; lower lip truncate, broad and short. 
Capsule globose, scarcely 1 lin. in diam. Seeds globose, smooth, $ lin. 
long, shining.—Hiern in Cat. Atr. Pl. Welw. i. 788; Kam. in Eng]. 
Jahrb. xxxiii. 93, partly, and in Baum, Kunene-Samb. Exped, 372 ; 
Stapf in Hook. Ic. Pl. t. 2797, figs. 1-11. 
Wile Mand. Uganda: Nandi, Scott-Elliot, 7039! 
Lower Guinea. Angola: Pungo Andongo; by the River Cuanza, near 
Sansamanda, Welwitsch, 262 ! by the Chitanda River, 4000 ft., Bawm, 142! 
Mozamb. Dist. Zanzibar: Kirk! British Central Africa: on an island in . 
the Zambesi near the Victoria Falls, Kirk ! Nyasaland: Tanganyika Plateau, 3000- 
4000 {t., Whyte ! 
Kirk’s specimens from the Victoria Falls are much stunted, but they dissect in 
every respect like the slender typical form. 
10. U. Baumii, Aawm. in Engl. Jahrb. xxxiii. 102. A slender, 
twining annual. Rhizoids capillary, much-branched. Leaves decayed 
at the time of flowering, not known. Pitchers unknown. Scape 
filiform, twining, up to 1 ft. long; scales few, subulate, minute. 
Flowers 1-2, distant; bracts ovate, acute, 1 lin. long; bracteoles 
lanceolate to subulate, shorter than or as long as the bracts ; pedicels 
