Utricularia. | XCIV, LENTIBULARIE® (STAPF). 483 
2 lin. long in fruit; lower ovate-elliptic, acute, somewhat shorter than 
the upper, both scarious in fruit, about 7-nerved. Corolla about 3 lin. 
long (from the tip of the upper lip to the end of the spur), pale 
purplish (?); upper lip oblong, obtuse, scarcely exceeding the upper 
sepal, slightly over I lin. long; lower lip orbicular-cuneate, over 14 lin. 
long ; palate erect, with 2 short distinct gibbosities and a minute tuft of 
hairs in front of the mouth; spur conic-subulate, straight or slightly 
curved, slender, up to 24 lin. long. Anthers over } lin. long; filaments 
linear. Style obscure; upper stigmatic lip quite obscure ; lower quadrate- 
rotundate. Capsule broad-ellipsoid, 1-1} lin. long. Seeds ovoid to 
ellipsoid, + lin. long, smooth ; cells of testa distinctly elongate. 
Nile Land. Bongo: Gir, Schweinfurth, 2514! 
15, U. tortilis, Welw. ex Oliver in Jowrn. Linn. Soc. ix. 150. A 
delicate, terrestrial annual. Rhizoids filiform, much branched, minutely 
glandular-verrucose. Leaves unknown, decayed at the time of flowering. 
Pitchers on the rhizoids, ovoid-globose, inverted, } lin. long; upper lip 
divided to the base into 2 narrow horn-shaped tentacles, curved over 
the small orifice ; lower lip 0. Scape subcapillary, twining, 3 in. high ; 
scales very few and very minute. Flowers usually 1, subterminal or up 
to 4; bracts ovate, 3 lin. long; bracteoles oblong, much smaller than 
the bracts; pedicel filiform, about 1-1} lin. long. Sepals subequal, 
ovate-elliptic to elliptic, obtuse or acutely acuminate, } lin. long. 
Corolla yellowish, 24-3 lin. long (from the tip of the upper lip to the 
end of the spur) ; upper lip subquadrate, entire, not or scarcely exceed- 
ing the upper sepal, with purple longitudinal streaks ; lower lip subor- 
bicular, entire, slightly over 1 lin. long, palate slightly gibbous, deep 
yellow, edge of mouth ciliolate, cilia joining in a small beard in front; 
spur obliquely conic with a broad base, 14 lin. long. Anthers 4 lin. 
long; pollen with about 4 slits and very minute pores ; filaments $ lin. 
long, more or less winged. Stigma subsessile; upper lip indistinct ; 
lower very broad and short. Capsule and seeds unknown.—Kam. in 
Engl. Jahrb. xxxiii. 104 excl. var. 
Lower Guinea. Angola: Huilla; near Moro de Lopollo, in bogs among short 
grass and sedges, associated with mucilaginous Algw, 5500 ft., Welwitsch, 258 ! 
16. U. micropetala, Smith in Rees, Cyclop. xxxvii. no. 58. An 
annual, delicate terrestrial herb. Rhizoids capillary. Leaves mostly 
decayed at the time of flowering, scattered on the rhizoids, very narrow 
linear, obtuse, very gradually attenuated into the petiole, with it 24 
lin. long, } lin. broad (only one leaf seen). Pitchers unknown. Scape 
filiform to capillary, erect or subflexuous, simple, up to 4 in. high ; 
scales few, very minute. Flowers 2—3, remote; bracts ovate, acute, 
+ lin. long; bracteoles subulate, shorter than the bracts ; pedicels 
slender, with 2 narrow gradually widening wings near the tip, about 2 
lin. long. Sepals ovate, somewhat unequal, closely nerved; upper 
larger, 14-2 lin. long, acuminate; lower acute. Corolla 5 lin. long 
{from the tip of the upper lip to the end of the spur), yellow ; upper 
lip ovate, entire, 1 lin. long; lower lip subquadrate, undulate, 1 lin. 
