492 XCIV. LENTIBULARIE# (STAPF). [ Utricularia. 
primordia.— DC. Prodr. viii. 6; Benjamin in Mart. FI. Bras. x. 237; 
Oliver in Journ. Linn. Soc. iv. 171; Kam. in Engl. Jahrb. xxxiii. 111; 
Stapf in Dyer, Fl. Cap. iv. ii. 434. 
Nile Land. Abyssinia: bays of Lake Tsana, near Currata, Schimper, 
1457 ! 
Lower Guinea. Angola: by the Quiriri River, near Sakkemecho, 4000 ft., 
Baum, 812! 
- Also in Natal, Madagascar, and throughout Tropical America. 
The number of seeds in a capsule and their size vary. The few-seeded form was 
lescribed by St. Hilaire (Voy. Distr. Diam. ii. 427) as U. olygosperma from Brazilian 
specimens. It seems to be the form prevalent in Africa. Oliver, l.c., says that the 
American specimens have sometimes as many as 24 seeds in a capsule. I have never 
seen so many in the mature state. WU. foliosa produces frequently slender filiform 
shoots from the back of the stolons without definite disposition, and bearing only 
scale-like leaves (aérial shoots of Goebel). They often grow out of the water. 
27. U. platyptera, Stapf. A floating, aquatic herb. Stolons long, 
branched, slender, glabrous. Leaves all alike, 5—6 lin. apart, 6-9 lin. 
long, usually 2-partite from or near the base, dichotomously multifid ; 
segments somewhat widened towards the forkings, ultimate segments 
capillary, rarely more than 14 lin. long, minutely setulose. Bladders 
conspicuous, numerous, up to 8 on a leaf, usually from the forks of the 
Jeaf-divisions, very obliquely ovoid, up to 2 lin. long, dark-green, mouth 
sublateral, oblique with 2 fine entire filiform tentacles ; stalk very short, 
nore or less lateral. Scapes lateral, 14-2 in. long, slender, 2- flowered ; 
bract broad-ovate to rotundate, 1 lin. long; bracteoles 0 ; pedicels 
slender, erect in flower, at length recurved and up to 10 Jin. long. 
Sepals equal, broad-ovate to rotundate, 1 lin. long, the lower often 
emarginate. Corolla yellow (Barter), not known to me. Pistil ovoid 
passing gradually into the short style; upper stigmatic lip obscure ; 
lower broad-ovate. Capsule ovoid-ellipsoid, over } lin. long. Seeds 
dise-shaped, more or less pentagonal, 4-2 lin. in diam. with a broad 
wing all round; testa and wing reticulate. Embryo lenticular, about 
% lin. in diam.— JU, reflexa, Oliver in Journ. Linn. Soc. ix. 146, partly ; 
Kam. in Engl. Jahrb. xxxiii. 110, partly. 
Upper Guinea. Northern Nigeria: Nupe; in deep pools and swamps, Barter, 
890! 
ig . . . . . aves e 
Very near to U. reflexa, from which it differs in having coarser leaves, rather 
smaller sepals, ovoid capsules, and larger, broad-winged seeds. 
28. U. reflexa, Oliver in Journ. Linn. Soc. ix. 146. A floating, 
aquatic herb. Stolons long, branched, often matted together, slender, 
glabrous. Leaves all alike, about 2~3 lin. apart, 2-5-partite, 3-5 jin. 
long, divisions subequal or, if more than 2, the middle one by far the 
longest, dichotomously multifid ; ultimate segments numerous, capillary, 
winutely setulose. Bladders rather conspicuous, numerous, up to ba 
« leaf, often from the forks of the leaf-divisions, very obliquely ovoid, up 
to 2 lin. long, dark green or purplish, mouth sublateral, oblique, 
delicately and sparingly timbriate or naked or the fimbrie fused into 
staghorn-like antenna, stalk very short, more or less lateral. Scapes 
lateral, 1-6 in. long, slender, 2- (rarely 3-) 1-flowered ; bract broadly 
