Utricularia. | XCIV, LENTIBULARIEE (STAPF). 485 
Jong, lobes narrow, acute; lower lip parallel to the upper, 3-lobed, 
about 7 lin. long, base cuneate, side lobes short, broad, subacute, middle 
lobe triangular-lanceolate, much longer than the side lobes ; spur conie, 
obtuse, more or less curved upwards, 24 lin. long. Anthers } lin. long ; 
filaments filiform, over } lin. long; pollen globose, with 3 pores. Style 
short, but distinct; upper lip very short and broad ; lower lip truncate, 
very broad. Capsule and seeds unknown.—Kam. in Engl. Jahrb. 
xXxxili, 106. 
Lower Guinea. Island of St. Thomas: in moss on trees, 1300 ft., Moller ! 
19. U. subulata, Linn. Sp. Pl. ed. i. 18. A delicate. dwarf sub-ter- 
restrial herb, 3-4 in. high. Stolons in pseudo-whorls from the base of 
‘the scape, descending, stiff and somewhat thickened at the base, then 
filiform to very finely capillary and flexuous, from a few to 9 lin. long, 
branched ; branches short, finely capillary with one or several branchlets ; 
branchlets frequently replaced by bladders. Leaves in small rosettes 
at the base of the scapes (below the stolons), with a narrow linear-lanceo- 
late blade, up to 24 lin. long and } lin. broad and a filiform petiole 
of the same length, or more or less filiform. Bladders on the stolons, 
rarely on the leaves, ovoid, 1-1 lin. long, mouth small, oblique, sub- 
Opposite to the stalk, with a pair of staghorn-shaped antenne. Scape 
filiform, straight, simple, with very few minute adpressed peltate scales, 
6—2- (rarely 1-) flowered ; axis of inflorescence often flexuous or zig-zag ; 
‘bracts peltate, about § lin. long, membranous, upper half acute, lower 
rounded, bracteoles 0; pedicels very fine, up to 4} lin. long. Sepals 
broad-elliptic to orbicular; upper about } lin. long; lower slightly 
shorter, in the fruit prominently striate. Corolla yellow, 23 lin. long ; 
upper lip broad-ovate, about 14 lin. long, entire ; lower lip 14—2} lin. 
long, 3-lobed ; middle lobe much longer than the lateral, ovate ; palate 
much raised, truncate or slightly emarginate in front view, minutely 
papillose ; spur conic to cylindric, very wide, obtuse,.2~3 lin. long. 
Filaments linear from a broader base, + lin. long; anthers } lin, in 
diam ; pollen very small. Stigma sessile on the globose ovary ; upper 
lip ovate-oblong, much smaller than the large depressed-orbicular lower 
lip. Capsule globose, up to 1 lin. in diam.; seeds globose-ellipsoid, 
3 lin. long; testa smooth, longitudinally striate; embryo undifferentiated, 
of the same shape as the seed.—DC. Prodr. viii. 16° Benj. in Mart. 
Fl. Bras. x. 243; Oliv. in Journ. Linn. Soe. ix. 148 ; Hiern in Cat. 
Afr. Pl. Welw. i. 786; Kam. in Engl. Jahrb. xxiii. 105 (incl. vars. 
inequalis and minuta). 
Upper Guinea. Sierra Leone: west side of St. George’s Water, near 
Freetown, Johnston, 18! and without precise locality, Smeathmann! <Afzelius! 
Liberia: Grand Bassa, Dinklage, 1727 (ex Kamienski), Lagos Island, Barter, 
20213! 
Wile Land. Jur: Jur Ghattas, Schweinfurth, 2559! 
Lower Guinea. Lower Congo : near Leopoldville, Duchesne, 44; Stanley Pool, 
Schlechter, 12580; and without precise locality, Gillet, 1; Dewevre, 1082 poplin 
Kamienski). Angola: Humpata; Empalanca Plains, 5500 ft., Welwitsch, 257! 
4zerman South-west Africa: Hereroland ; Waterberg, Dinter, 352. 
