Utricularia. | XCIV, LENTIBULARIE® (STAPF). 487 
tendrils or adhesive roots and fixing the plant to the substratum. 
Leaves pinnatifid, up to } in. long, articulate at the base; segments. 
capillary, simple or bifid, minutely glandular. Bladders 0. Scapes. 
from a few inches to nearly 1 ft. long, rigid or more or less flexuous, 
slender to more than } lin. in diam., simple or sparingly branched, 5- 
to many-flowered, with or without scales resembling the bracts; bracts 
rotundate, up to 1 lin. long; bracteoles linear, } lin. long; pedicels 1 or 
at length up to 2 lin. long, slender, suberect. Sepals very unequal ; 
upper rotundate, 1 lin. long; lower elliptic-orbicular, up to over 4 lin. 
long. Corolla (according to Oliver and Benjamin) 1} lin. long; upper 
lip ovate-rotundate, obtuse, entire, 3-1 lin. long ; lower lip slightly 
longer than the upper, 2-lobed, lobes obtuse ; spur reduced to a slight 
sac-like bulging. Filaments filiform from a broad base; anthers 
orbicular, { lin. in diam.; pollen very small, with 4 fine longitudinal 
grooves. Stigma sessile; upper lip 0; lower depressed-orbicular, large. 
Capsule globose, 1 lin. in diam., faintly 4-ridged; seeds obliquely ellip- 
soid, ;4-} lin. long, exuding a coat of muciluge when wetted.—Oliver 
in Journ. Linn. Soc. ix. 148; Kam. in Engl. Jahrb. xxxiii. 106. U. 
suaveolens, Afz. ex Benj. l.c. 
Upper Guinea. Senegambia: on rocks in swift currents of water near Fouta 
Jallon, Heudelot, 710! Sierra Leone: Sugarloaf Mountain, near Freetown, Barter / 
Stream near Franziga, Scott-Elliot, 4736! and without precise locality, Afzelius / 
Smeathman ! 
A very remarkable species, resembling in habit the genera Quartinia (Lythra- 
riee) and Angolea (Podostemacee) which grow under similar conditions. It 
is nearly allied to U’. neottioides, a native of Brazil. 
22. U. Thonningii, Schumach. in Schumach. & Thonn. Beskr. 
Guin, Pl. 12. A submerged, aquatic herb floating close to the surface. 
Stems up to over 1 ft. long, filiform to more than $ lin. in diam. Leaves 
heteromorphic; normal leaves from a few lines to more than } in. apart, 
rarely subopposite, 3—6-partite, auricled, rays up to 1} in. long, finely 
filiform or dilated and up to over 1 lin. broad, auricles solitary or paired, 
adpressed to the axis, orbicular-cordate to reniform with a narrow sinus, 
3—4 lin. across, hyaline, delicately ciliate-dentate ; pinne up to 4 lin, 
long, usually furcate from near the base, ultimate segments capillary, 
minutely setose, with or without bladders ; bladders usually solitary, 
from the lower part of a pinna, obliquely globose-ovoid, i-4 lin. in 
diam., mouth lateral, truncate, oblong, naked or (according to Kamienski) 
with 2 setiform antenne; float leaves in a faise whorl of 6 (rarely 
fewer or more) or irregularly approximate, 14-24 in. Pat ue lowest. 
flower, linear-oblong to oblong in outline, terete, 10-12 lin. long, 
13-24 lin. in diam., with short or long pinne near the apex. Raceme 
few- to many-flowered ; peduncle below the floats 2-4 in. long or occa- 
sionally very short, slender; bracts broad-ovate, obtuse, up to ones 
1 lin. long; bracteoles 0; pedicels 1-1} lin. long, filiform and obliquely 
erect when in flower, then spreading or recurved, with gradually ipa 
ing wings passing into the wide base of the mature calyx. Sepals 
suborbicular-ovate or orbicular, obtuse, upper almost 2 lin., lower 
