Utricularia. | XCIV. LENTIBULARIES (STAPF). 489 
pinna, globose-ovoid, up to 3 lin. in diam., mouth lateral, truncate, 
oblong, naked (always ?); float leaves in a false whorl of 3-6, 4-14 in. 
below the lowest flower, oblong, terete, 5-7 lin. long, 24 lin. in diam., 
with minute pinne at the frequently deeply constricted apex. Raceme 
4-10-flowered ; peduncle below the floats $-12 in. long, very slender ; 
bracts broad-oblong, 1—1} lin. long, obtuse, soon deciduous ; bracteoles 
0; pedicels up to I} lin. long, filiform, obliquely erect in flower, finely 
vecurved, more or less widened at the very apex in fruit. Sepals 
orbicular to orbicular-ovate, obtuse, subequal, scarcely more than 1 lin. 
long, shortly decurrent and enlarged in fruit. Corolla 2-24 lin. long; 
upper lip ovate, 1} lin. long, obtuse, entire ; lower lip rotundate, 13-13 
lin. long; palate large, 2-gibbous, minutely papillose ; spur cylindric 
from a broad, suddenly constricted base, obliquely truncate, slightly 
exceeding the lower lip. Mature fruit unknown.—l”. Oliveri, var. 
jimbriata, Kam. in Ber. Deutsch. Bot. Gesellsch. 1894, 4, and in Engl. 
Jahrb. xxxiii. 108. 
Upper Guinea. Lagos: Yoruba, Millson! Southern Nigeria : Old Calabar 
River, Mann, 2326! 
The specimen from which Kamienski described his UV. Oliveri, var. jimbriata, 
was collected by Buchholz on Eliva (Lake) Sile, on the Lower Ogowe. I have not 
Seen it, but, from the description, it is very probably identical with my U. 
trichoschiza, 
24. U. stellaris, Linn. f. Suppl. 86. A submerged, aquatic herb 
floating near 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 3 in. apart, rarely subopposite, 4—6-partite, usually 
auricled ; rays 4-1} in. long, finely filiform to linear (up to more than 
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+ lin, broad), auricles orbicular-cordate in outline, 1-2} lin. in diam., 
tringed or deeply and repeatedly divided, fringes or segments finely 
subulate and rather rigid, rigidly ciliate with the cilia otten 2~3-nate, 
or the segments in cases of extreme division running out into capillary 
flexuous tips resembling the ultimate segments of the typical leaf- 
pinne; pinne 2-5 lin. long, usually furcate from or near the base, 
ultimate segments capillary, minutely setose, with or without bladders ; 
bladders from the angles of the divisions, 1 or 2 with each pinna, 
obliquely globose-ovoid, 3-1 lin. in diam., mouth truncate, oblong, 
naked (always ?), almost closed by a flexible valve in the upper and the 
thickening of the rim in the lower part; floats in a false whorl of 4—6 
{rarely fewer or more), usually 3-6 lin. below the lowest flower, broad- 
ellipsoid to ovoid, 24-4 lin. long with some reduced short pinne 
hear the apex. Raceme few- to 12-flowered i peduncle 1-‘ in. long, 
slender; bracts broadly-ovate, obtuse, }-1 lin. long ; bracteoles 0; 
pedicels 1-14 lin. (rarely more) long, filiform and obliquely erect during 
flowering, then gradually recurving, at last up to 3 in. long and more 
or less widened below the calyx. Sepals subequal, ovate-orbicular = 
orbicular, subobtuse to rounded, 1-1} lin. long. Corolla yellow, 2-24 
lin. long ; upper lip rotundate-ovate, up to 1} lin. long; lower lip sub- 
quadrate up to over 2 lin. long; palate very large and gibbous ; spur 
subeylindric, obtuse, adpressed to the lower lip, up to 2 lin. long. 
