488 XCIV. LENTIBULARIE® (STAPF), | Utricularia. 
almost 1} lin. long, much enlarged in the fruit, up to 6 lin. in diam. 
Corolla yellow or white with purple veins (according to Thonning), 
3-34 lin. long; upper lip broad-ovate, 2 lin. long, obtuse, entire; 
lower lip rotundate-subquadrate, 24 lin. long; palate very large and 
gibbous ; spur cylindric, obtuse, adpressed to the lower lip, up to 24 lin. 
long. Anthers patelliform when open, 2 lin. long. Ovary globose ; 
style distinct, but very short; upper lip obscure; lower large, 
rotundate. Capsule globose, 2—2} lin. in diam., enveloped by the com- 
pressed enlarged calyx ; seeds short, prismatic, 4—5-angular, up to } lin. 
in diam. and almost as high, all the angles marginate. Embryo 
slightly concave on the top face.—U. inflexa, Vahl, Enum. i. 196 
(Thonning’s description and plant); DC. Prodr. viii. 4, partly; Oliver 
in Trans. Linn. Soc. xxix. 123; Kam. in Eaogl. Jahrb. xxxiii. 108, 
partly, not of Forsk. U. Oliveri, Kam. in Ber. Deutsch. Bot. Gesellsch. 
1894, 4, and in Engl. Jahrb. 1.c. (including var. Schweinfurtht). 
Upper Guinea. Northern Nigeria: Nupe ; in lakes and swamps, Barter, 1039! 
Gold Coast : in stagnant water, Thonning! Cape Coast, Brass ! 
Wile Land. Kordofan: Lake Tura and Omkenen; Arashkol Mountain, 
Kotschy, 201! Steudner, 1455! White Nile, Petherick! Bahr el Gebel, Schwein- 
Surth, iii., 226! Broun, 30! Uganda: Unyoro ; in the Nile, Grant, 2! 
Mozamb. Dist. Zanzibar. Hildebrandt, 976! German East Africa: Lake 
Nyasa, Kambwe Lagoon and in the River Rombashi, Laws! Portuguese East 
Africa: Quaqua River, near Quilimane, Menyharth ! British Central Africa : Lake 
Tanganyika, at the mouth of the Lufu River, Cunnington, 33! Domira Bay, Lake 
Nyasa, Cunxington, 579 ! 
Var. laciniata, Stapf. Auricles more or less deeply laciniate, laciniw hyaline 
like the body of the auricles, minutely setulose. Corolla up to 4 lin. long. Seeds as 
in the typical form or not so high ; embryo sometimes bright sea-green. 
Mozamb. Dist. German East Africa: Zanguebar, Kirk, 5! 
M. Thonningii differs, so far as herbarium specimens go, from U’. inflexa, Forsk., 
only in the presence of large hyaline auricles. Grant and Barter describe the 
colour of the corolla as yellow, but Thonning as white with purple streaks, which is 
the usual colour of the flowers of M. tnflexa. Ou the other hand, there is a specimen 
of U. inflexa at Kew, collected by Figari in Lower Egypt, with the collector’s note 
“var. flore luteo.” = Kamienski quotes numerous specimens of U. inflera from 
Tropical Africa; those which I have had ar opportunity of examining, possessed the 
characteristic stipules of EF. Thonningii. As the auricles are easily overlooked in 
badly dried specimens, or break up and at length rub off, they may have escaped 
Kamienski’s notice. In fact, the author quotes two of the specimens, enumerated 
under U. inflexa, also under U. Oliveri, viz. Kotschy, 201 and Barter, 3243. I have 
seen no specimens of U. Thonningii from outside of Tropical Africa. 
oe Us, trichoschiza, Stapf. A submerged, aquatic herb floating 
close to the surface. Stems up to over 14 ft. long, filiform, very slender. 
Leaves heteromorphic; normal leaves from a few lines to 4 in. apart, 
rarely subopposite, 3-6-partite, auricled, rays up to 13 in. long, filiform 
to } lin. broad ; auricles solitary or paired, orbicular-cordate to reniform 
in outline, 3-5 lin. across, cut up to beyond the middle into very 
numerous filiform, flexuous minutely setulose segments, very thin and 
hyaline ; pinne up to 9 lin. long, usually furcate from near the base, 
ultimate segments finely capillary, sparsely and minutely setulose, with 
or without bladders; bladders usually solitary from the lower part of a 
