480 XCIV. LENTIBULARIES (STAPF). [ Utricularia. 
filiform, 7-10 lin. long, after flowering stiff-erect. Sepals subequal 
upper broadly elliptic-ovate, obtuse or subacute, over 2 lin. long, lower 
elliptic, obtuse. Corolla deep violet, 9-10 lin. long (from the tip of 
the upper lip to the end of the spur); upper lip panduriform, over 5 
lin. long, of which 34-3} lin. go to the ovate-orbicular part above the 
constriction ; lower lip orbicular-cuneate, 4-5 lin. long ; palate large, 
almost parallel to the upper lip, laterally compressed, almost triangular 
in side view and subacute at the upper angle, edge of mouth ciliolate, 
cilia gathered in a small tuft in front; spur slender, conic, acute, over 4 
lin. long. Anthers over } lin. long; pollen globose, with 4—5 short 
slits and pores; filament almost 1 lin. long, obovate-oblong. Pistil 
cylindric ; stigma subsessile; upper lip obscure; lower short, broad, 
truncate. Capsule and fruit unknown.—Kam. in Baum, Kunene- 
‘Samb. Exped. 372. U. reticulata, Oliver in Journ. Linn. Soc. ix. 149 ; 
Hiern in Cat. Afr. Pl. Welw. i. 787, not of Smith. 
Lower Guinea. Angola: Huilla; in bogs on the left bank of the 
QQuipumpunhime River in the Humpata district, 4800 ft., very rare, Welwitsch, 
265! by the Kuebe River, 3900 ft., Bawm, 307 ! 
This differs from the East Indian U. reticulata in the much larger upper lip and 
the very large subtriangular palate; and also in having a smaller calyx. 
11. U. prehensilis, 1. Meyer, Comment. Pl. Afr. Austr. i. 282. 
An annual, slender, terrestrial herb. Rbhizoids filiform, whitish, brittle, 
loosely matted. Leaves scattered on the rhizoids, usually decayed at 
the time of flowering, linear-lanceolate or lingulate, obtuse, up to almost 
1 in. long and up to 1 lin. broad, narrowed into a very slender petiole 
of about $ or 2 of the length of the blade, thin. Pitchers numerous 
from the leaves and rhizoids, reversed with the mouth near the short 
stalk, globose or ovoid-globose, almost } lin. in diam. ; upper lip divided 
to the base into 2 horn-like curved segments; lower lip 0. Scape 
filiform, 3 in. to more than 1 ft. long, erect and more or less flexuous 
when short, twining when long; scales few, minute. Flowers 1-6, 
remote ; bracts ovate to ovate-lanceolate, acute, over 1 lin. long ; brac- 
teoles lanceolate to subulate, as long as or shorter to much shorter than 
the bracts ; pedicels filiform, 2-5 lin. long. Sepals membranous, some- 
what dissimilar; upper ovate, acute or acuminate, many-nerved, 1n 
flower 2-2} lin. long, in fruit up to 4 lin. long; lower usually shorter, 
more or less elliptic and obtuse. Corolla 6-8 lin. long (from the tip of 
the upper lip to the end of the spur), yellow ; upper lip broadly oblong- 
spathulate with a rounded entire or emarginate tip, 24_4 lin. long ; 
lower lip 3-4 lin. long, broadly ovate; palate erect almost parallel to 
the upper lip, with two large smooth anteriorly converging gibbosities 
passing into a minute toothed crest towards the corolla-mouth, which 
is ciliolate, the cilia joining in front in a more or less brush-like tuft ; 
spur straight, descending, acute, 3-44 lin. long. Anthers 4 lin. long. 
Style short, stout, gradually passing into the ovary ; upper lip of stigma 
very short and flat; lower depressed, rounded. Capsule ellipsoid, 
24 lin. long. Seeds very obliquely ovoid, tubercled on the back, 3- 
