Utricularia. | XCIV. LENTIBULARIE& (STAPF). 493: 
ovate or rotundate, 1-14 lin. long ; bracteoles 0; pedicel }—1} in. long,. 
erect in flower, then gradually recurving. Sepals subequal, broadly 
ovate to rotundate, 1-14 lin. long. Corolla yellow, up to 44 lin. long ; 
upper lip almost orbicular, 2 lin. long; lower lip rotundate to subquad- 
rate, about 3-4 lin. long; palate broad, slightly 2-gibbous ; spur broad- 
conic, obtuse, 24-3 lin. long. Filaments 2 lin. long, linear; anthers. 
f;in. long. Pistil passing into the very short style ; upper stigmatic- 
lobe obscure ; lower broad-ovate. Capsule globose, almost J} lin. in 
diam. Seeds disc-shaped, more or less pentagonal, } lin, in diam., with 
a narrow wing all round; testa reticulate. Embryo sublenticular,. 
undifferentiated.—Oliver in Trans. Linn. Soc. xxix. 123; Hiern in 
Cat. Afr. Pl. Welw. i. 785; Kam. in Engl. Jahrb. xxxiii. 110, partly.. 
U. diploglossa, Kam. 1.c., partly. 
North Central. Bagirmi: muddy banks of an affluent of the River Shari, 
Vogel, 94! 
Nile Land. Jur: Jur Ghattas, Schweinfurth, 2594! in the Bahr el Gazal,. 
Schweinfarth, iii, 86 partly! Uganda: Unyoro, Speke & Grant / 
Lower Guinea. Angola: Huilla; in the River Quipumpumhine and most 
of the other gently flowing streams in Sobato de Humpata, 4800 ft., covering broad 
tracts, Welwitsch, 269! 269 b! by the Cunene River, Johnston / 
Mozamb, Dist. German East Africa: Lake Victoria, near Bukoba, Cun- 
mington, 618 ! 
Very closely allied to U. diploglosse, from which it differs only in the longer, 
more divided leaves, longer scapes, and the orbicular (not ovate) upper corolla-lip. 
29. U. charoidea, Stapf. A floating, aquatic herb. Stolons. 
branched, very slender, hispidulous. Leaves all alike, 2-6 lin. apart, 
3-5 lin, long, usually 2-partite from the base or near it, rarely 3—5- 
partite (with the lateral partitions smaller), dichotomously multifid,. 
hispidulous all over ; ultimate segments capillary, rarely more than 1 
lin. long. ladders rather numerous, up to 8 on a leaf, usually 
from the forks of the leaf-divisions, pale green, obliquely ovoid, up- 
to 1 lin. long, mouth sublateral, oblique, naked (?) ; stalk very short, 
More or less lateral. Scapes lateral, 2-5 lin. long, very slender,. 
1-flowered, glabrous, with an oblong-orbicular broad bract about the 
middle, over } lin. long. Sepals equal, broad-ovate, about 1 lin. long, 
the lower emarginate. Corolla yellow, 3 lin. long; upper lip ovate,. 
entire, over 14 lin. long; lower rotundate to subquadrate, 1} lin. long ;- 
palate large, raised, 2-gibbous; spur broad-conic-obtuse, somewhat 
longer than the lower lip. Pistil globose-ovoid, passing into the very 
short style; upper stigmatic-lip obscure; lower broad-ovate. Capsule 
ellipsoid-ovoid, scarcely 1 lin. long; perfect seeds very few, lenticular, 
orbicular to elliptic-orbicular, about 4 lin, in diam., with a narrow 
irregular wing all round ; testa delicately reticulate. Embryo lenticular. 
—U. reflexa, Oliver in Journ. Linn. Soc. ix. 146, partly; Kam. in 
Engl. Jahrb. xxxiii. 110, partly. 
Upper Guinea. Northern Nigeria: at the confluence of the Niger and Benne 
lvers, Barter ! 
Very marked by the hispidulous indumentum, the small flowers and capsules and. 
the few, non-angular seeds. 
