494 XCIV. LENTIBULARIEX (STAPF). | Vtricularia. 
30. U. diploglossa, Welwitsch ex Oliv. in Journ. Linn. Soc. ix. 
147, An amphibious herb, floating or terrestrial on spongy places by 
rivers. Stolons. up to } ft. long, branched, sometimes matted into 
‘cushions, very slender, glabrous. Leaves all alike, 1-3 lin. apart, 
3—d-partite, 1-3 lin, long, divisions multifid; ultimate segments 5-8, 
-capillary, glabrous, terminating with a short fine bristle. Bladders 
very conspicuous, replacing a leaf-division or more often a basal seg- 
ment, l’or 2 (rarely 3) with each leaf, obliquely ovoid, up to 2 lin. long, 
‘often purple, mouth sublateral, delicately fimbriate, some of the fimbrie 
often fused at the base, stalk very short. Scapes lateral, 3-1 lin. long, 
_ slender, with a single, broad-oblong or elliptic, obtuse or emarginate 
bract, 1 lin. long, 2-8 lin. below the flower. Sepals equal, ovate- 
votundate or broad-elliptic, obtuse, 1 lin. long. Corolla yellow, 4-4} 
lin. long; upper lip ovate, entire or crenulate at the apex, not quite 2 
lin. long; lower lip broad-rotundate, slightly and broadly 2-lobed, sides 
deflexed, 3-4 lin. long; palate large, slightly 2-gibbous; spur broadly- 
conic, obtuse, 24-3 lin. long. Filaments linear, slightly over 4 lin. 
long ; anthers } lin. long. Pistil passing gradually into the very short 
‘Style; upper stigmatic lip obscure ; lower rotundate. Mature capsule 
and seeds unknown.—Hiern in Cat. Afr. Pl. Welw. i. 786; Kam. in 
. Engl. Jahrb. xxxiii. 110, partly ; Stapf in Dyer, Fl. Cap. iv. ii. 434. 
Lower Guinea. Angola: Huilla; Morro de Lopollo, 5300 ft., Welwitsch, 271! 
-banks of the River Monino, Welwitsch, 272 b! 
Also in the Transvaal. 
31. U. cymbantha, Oliv. in Journ. Linn. Soc. ix. 147. A very 
‘delicate herb, floating or creeping on mud. Stolons capillary, branch- 
ing, more or less matted, green, glabrous, minutely glandular. Leaves 
-all alike, about 1 lin. apart, forked from the base, divisions equal or un- 
-equal, entire or one of them forked again, up to }—1} lin. long, capillary, 
acute, glabrous. Bladders in the place of a leaf-division ora segment of 
a division, obliquely ovoid, } lin. long, mouth sublateral, oblique, delicately 
fimbriate, fimbrize unequal, longest sometimes branched, insertion of the 
stalk sublateral. Scapes lateral, up to 4 lin. long, with a minute ovate 
‘Seale at the middle, erect when flowering, nodding when mature. Sepals 
orbicular or depressed-orbicular, subequal; upper } lin. long, nerveless. 
Corolla yellowish, about 1 lin. long; upper lip very broad and short, 
‘subtruncate ; lower lip sub-semicircular, broader than long, subcordate 
at the base, slightly convex, mouth wide open ; spur very short, wide 
saceate, subgibbous and glandular in front. Filaments linear, } In. 
long; anther ,', lin. long. Ovary globose-ovoid; style distinct, as 
long as the stigma; upper stigmatic-lip very small; lower elliptic- 
rotundate ; ovules about 5on a subglobose placenta. Seeds (not quite 
mature) about 3, lenticular with a membranous wing all round, } lin. 1m 
‘diam.—Hiern in Cat. Afr. Pl. Welw. i. 786. Biovularia cymbantha, 
Kam. in Engl. Jahrb. xxxiii. 113, 
Lower Guinea. Angola: Huilla; shallow pools near Morro de Lopollo, 
forming together with Algae spongy masses, Welwitsch, 272! 
The structure of the ovary, capsule and seeds is as in typical Utricularia, and 
