496 XCIV. LENTIBULARIE& (STAPF). [ Utricularia. 
long, ravely longer; bracts membranous, broad-obovate, truncate or 
rounded, 5 lin. long, lowest 1 or 2 often barren; bracteoles 0; pedicels. 
finely filiform, permanently obliquely erect, of very unequal length, the 
longest up to + lin. long. Sepals equal, orbicular-elliptic, up to 1 lin. 
long, membranous, scarcely enlarging after flowering. Corolla yellow, 
23-3 lin. long ; upper lip ovate-rotundate, entire or subentire, 1-1} lin. 
long ; lower lip subquadrate, 14 lin. long, slightly 2-lobed or almost 
entire; palate much raised, obscurely 2-gibbous, minutely papillose, 
margin spreading or deflexed ; spur conic, obtuse, spreading, as long as 
or somewhat longer than the lower lip. Filaments curved, dilated up- 
wards, } lin. long; anthers ellipsoid, } lin. long. Ovary subglobose; 
style very short, but distinct ; upper stigma-lobe obscure ; lower rotun- 
date. Capsule globose, 1-2 lin. in diam. ; seeds numerous, lenticular, 
2 lin. in diam., with a thin corky or transparent, somewhat irregular, and 
often eroded wing around the margin, hilum excentric. Embryo lenti- 
cular, slightly emarginate, undifferentiated.—DC. Prodr. viii. 7; Benth. 
Fl. Austral. iv.526; C. B. Clarke in Hook. f. Fl. Brit. Ind. iv. 329; Aschers. 
in Ber. Deutsch. Bot. Ges. iv. 404; Boiss. Fl. Or. Suppl. 339; Batt. & 
Trab. Fl. Alg. i. 718; Coss. Ill. Fl. Atl. 100, t. 162; Hiern in Cat. Afr. Pl. 
Welw. i. 786; Kam. in Engl. Jahrb. xxxiii. 112 ; Goebel in Ann. Jard. 
Bot. Buitenz. ix. 91-97 ; Stapf in Dyer, Fl. Cap. iv. ii. 435. U. diantha, 
Roem. & Schultes, Syst. Veg. Mant. i. 169; Benth. FI. Hongk. 256 ; 
Wight, Ic. Pl. t..1569; Oliv. in Journ. Linn. Soe. iii. 176, & ix. 147, not 
of DC. U. ambigua, DC: Le. 9. 
Upper Guinea. Sierra Lecne: Limba; Makunde, Scott-Elliot, 5718! Lagos 
Island, Barter, 20212! 
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precise locality, Schimper, 1449! Gallabat: near Matamma, Schweinfurth, 2582 ! 
Soudan: Ghabat el Arab, Brown ! Meshera, Schweinfurth, 1249! 
ower Guinea. Loango: Chinchocho; in a stream near Calowe, Soyaua, 
173! Angola: Icoloe Bengo; floating in Lake Funda, Welwitsch, 267 | Barro do 
Dande ; floating or growing on damp. mud near the River Dande and the lakes of 
Bombo, Welwitsch, 2670! Benguella ; Chihinde, Baum, 41! German South-west 
Africa : Damaraland 3 Grootfontein, Dinter, 678 ! 
Mozamb. Dist. German East Africa : Ugalla River, Béhm, 77! Lake 
Tanganyika, at the mouth of the Malagarazi River, Cunnington, 811! British 
Central Africa : Urungu ; Abercorn, Carson ! 
Also in South Africa, Algiers, Portugal, and from India to China and Australia. — 
Wile Land. Abyssinia: Bays of Lake Tsana, Schimper, 1450 ! and without 
Imperfectly known species. 
34. U. incerta, Kam. in Engl. Jahrb. xxxiii. 111. A floating, 
aquatic herb, Stolons very long, branched, filiform, to over } lin. thick, 
glabrous. Leaves 24-3} lin, apart, usually forked from or from near 
the base, up to over 1 in. long, rays up to } lin. broad at the base, 
elegantly 2-pinnate, ovate-oblong to oblong in outline; pinne up to 
22 obi) 3) lin. long; ultimate segments toothed, filiform, and minutely 
setulose. 
Wile Land. Soudan; Bahr el Ghazal, Schweinfurth, iii. 86 ! 
