482 XCIV. LENTIBULARIE® (STAPF). | Utricularia. 
acuminate sepals, larger corollas, with an ovate-oblong upper lip and _ filiform 
tilaments . 
13. U. spiralis, Smith in Rees, Cyclop. xxxvii. no. 5, An annual, 
delicate, terrestrial herb. Rhizoids much-branched ; ultimate branchlets 
very short, glandular-verruculose. Leaves from the rhizoids, usually 
decayed at the time of flowering, spathulate-linear, obtuse, gradually 
attenuated into the slender petiole, up to over } in. long and up to more 
than } lin. broad. Pitchers from the rhizoids and the leaves, inverted 
with the mouth near the stalk, obovate-globose; upper lip divided to 
the base into 2 horn-like curved tentacles; lower lip 0. Scape filiform to 
subcapillary, up to 1 ft. long, usually twining round other plants ; scales 
few, minute. Flowers 2-4, remote; bracts ovate-lanceolate, up to } lin. 
long; bracteoles lanceolate to subulate, as long as or more commonly 
shorter than the bracts; pedicels very slender, up to 2 lin. long, with 2 
wings near the tip gradually widening and passing into the calyx. 
Sepals unequal ; upper ovate, acute to acuminate, 1} Jin. long in flower, 
at length up to 24 lin. long; lower distinctly shorter, less acute to 
almost obtuse, both many-nerved. Corolla 24~3 lin. long (from the tip 
of the upper lip to the end of the spur), blue with a white spot at the 
palate ; upper lip not or very slightly exceeding the upper sepal, shortly 
linear, truncate, not quite 1 lin. long; lower lip more or less erect, broadly 
obovate, rounded, up to 2 lin. long, palate convex, elliptic, white or 
yellowish with purple veins, with a tuft of minute hairs in front of the 
mouth ; spur conic, acute, straight, descending, 14-2 lin. long. Anthers 
up to } lin. long; filaments with a very broad convex wing on one side. 
Style short, but distinct ; upper lip of stigma hardly any ; lower sub- 
quadrate, truncate. Capsule globose-ellipsoid, up to 1} lin. long. Seeds 
globose, about } lin. in diam.; testa reticulate, areoles nearly isodia- 
metric; embryo globose, not differentiated.—Oliver in Journ. Linn. Soc. 
ix. 149; Kam. in Engl. Jahrb. xxxiii. 102. U. cwrulea, Oliver, 1.c., not 
of Linn. JU. uliginoides, Kam. 1.c. 101, not of Wight. 
Upper Guinea. Sierre Leone: Scarcies Valley, near Kitchom ; Scott-Elliot, 
4342 ! and without precise locality, Afzelius! Lagos Island, Barter, 20214! 
Smith described the lower lip as ‘*cloven.” He must have examined a flower 
with a torn or split lower lip, as it is certainly entire. A. De Candolle, who did 
not see any specimens, renders “ cloven” with “ trilobum,” which is equally wrong. 
v. spiralis is extremely similar to weak specimens of U. uliginoides, Wight, which 
18: quite distinct from U. cerulea, Linn., as originally understood by Linneus (see 
Smith in Rees, l.c. no. 47), but differs from it in somewhat smaller flowers, with a 
large white palate, very broadly winged filaments, and a testa with almost isodia- 
metric (not elongated) areoles, and as it seems very much smaller leaves. 
14. U. Schweinfurthii, Baker MSS. A very delicate, twining 
annual. Rhizoids and leavesunknown. Scape capillary, twining round 
other plants, simple or sparingly branched, up to more than } ft. long ; 
scales very minute, few. Flowers few to six, distant; bracts and 
bracteoles under $ lin. long, lanceolate, subequal ; pedicels very slender, 
up to 44. lin. long, obscurely winged near the tip. Sepals unequal ; 
upper ovate, acuminate, slightly over 1 lin. long in flower, nearly up 0 
