490 XCIV. LENTIBULARIEZ (STAPF). [ Utricularia. 
Anthers patelliform when open, } lin. in diam., cells confluent ; fila- 
ments filiform, narrowly winged, = lin. long. Ovary globose; style 
distinct, short ; lower stigmatic lips truncate-rotundate, upper lip 0. 
Capsule globose, 2-24 lin. in diam. Seeds box-shaped, 4—5-angular, 
41-3 lin. across, }—,!, lin. high, all the angles more or less narrowly 
winged, top-face tinely reticulate. Embryo not differentiated —Roxb. 
Coromand. PI. ii. 42, t. 180, Fl. Ind. i. 143; Wight in Hook. Bot. 
Mise. iii. 91; Ic. Pl. iv. t. 1567; E. Meyer, Comm. Pl. Afr. Austr. 281; 
DC. Prodr. viii. 3 (inel. var. coromandeliana); Oliver in Journ. Linn. 
Soc. ili. 174, and ix. 146; Hiern in Cat. Afr. Pl. Welw. i. 785, partly ; 
Kam. in Engl. Jahrb. xxxiii. 107 (incl. vars. dilatata, jiliformis and 
breviscapa) ; Stapf in Dyer, Fl. Cap. iv. 11. 433. 
Upper Guinea. Senegambia: by the Senegal River, Roger! Perrottet, 595 ! 
617! Leprieuwr / French Guinea: Farana, on the River Niger, Scott-E/liot, 5360! 
Northern Nigeria: Nupe, Barter, 1553! Bornu; north of Mora, in Mandara, 
Vogel! 
Wile Land. Kordofan: Omkenen, Sfewdzer, 1456! in a lake at the foot of 
Arashkol Mountain, Kotschy, 202! Jur: near Wau, Heuglin, 33! Bongo: Gir, 
Schweinfurth, 2150! Uganda: Lake Victoria, near Entebbe, Cunnnigton, 620! 
Lower Guinea. Angola: Icoloe Bongo; in Lake Funda, on the left hank 
of the Bengo River, Welwitsch, 268 | Lake Quilunda, near Prato, Welwitsch, 2866! 
Barra do Dande ; in the River Dande, Welwitsch, 286c! in lakes by the Lifume 
River, near Banza de Libongo, Welwitsch, 268d! Mossamedes; by the Cunene 
River, near Humbe, 3700 ft., Bawm, 104! German South-west Africa: Amboland ; 
Olukonda, Schinz, 402! Rautanen, 483! Hereroland; Om na Matako, Schinz, 400! 
Ompoatyipiro, Din‘er, 515! by the Cunene River, near Kileri, Schinz ! 
Mozamb. Dist. Portuguese East Africa: Quaqua River, rear Quilimane, 
Menyharth! “ Zambesiland,” Kirk / Lower Zambesi; near Shigogo, Kirk of 
Lupata, Kirk! below Lupata, Kirk! British Central Africa : Catumba Country, 
Nicholson! Bechuanaland ; Bitterpits, west of Lake Ngami, Schinz, 401! 
Also in South Africa, Madagascar, India, and tropical Australia. 
25. U. villosula, Stapf. A submerged, aquatic herb floating close 
to the surface. Stems filiform, very slender, almost villous from 
extremely fine spreading hairs. Leaves heteromorphic ; normal leaves. 
from a line to more than 1 in. apart, simple or of 2-3 rays, not 
auricled, rays 5 to 8 lin. long, finely filiform and repeatedly divided 
from 1—2} lin. above the base or inflated and spindle-shaped up to sd 
middle and multifid above, delicately villous in the lower part ; ultimate 
segments capillary, very sparsely and minutely setulose, with or without 
bladders ; bladders 1 or few on a pinna, obliquely globose-ovoid, } lin. 
in diam., mouth sublateral, oblique, oblong, delicately fimbriate ; float 
leaves 5-6 in a whorl, lanceolate-oblong in outline, terete, attenuate 
into a short stalk, 4-6 lin. long, up to 1} lin. in diam., with short multifid 
sometimes bladder-bearing pinne near the apex. Racemes terminal at 
the end of stems bearing foliage- and float-leaves, 4—2-flowered, the 
uppermost 2~3 flowers rather close, the 3rd or 4th (if present) about 
1}in, below them ; peduncle very slender, glabrous, about 14 in. long to 
the lowest flower, without scales ; bracts ovate, nerveless, scarcely $ lin. 
long; bracteoles 0; pedicels filiform, 14-2 lin. long, suberect an 
fruit. Sepals subequal, ovate-orbicular to depressed-orbicular, | Sans 
