Tas. 5923. 
UTRICULARIA montana. 
Native of the West Indies. 
Nat. Ord. LENTIBULARIEA. 
Genus Urricutaria; Linn. (A. DC. Prod., vol. viii. p. 3.) 
Urricutarta (Orchidioides) montana ; radicibus e tuberibus oblongis pedi- 
cellatis fibrillisque filiformibus, foliis radicalibus petiolatis lanceolatis 
acutis 3-nerviis nervis secundariis paucis, scapo erecto 1-5-flore brac- 
teato, bracteis linearibus remotis, floribus amplis cernuis pedicellatis, 
sepalis ovato-cordatis obtusis, corolle labiis amplis planiusculis undulatis, 
superiore orbiculato basi truncato, marginibus recurvis, inferiore duplo 
majore transverse oblongo, palato prominente genitalia occludente 
calcare robusto incurvo labio breviore. 
Urricu.aria montana, Jacq. Amer., vol. vii. 6 ; Poiret, Encycl., vol.viii. p. 268; 
A. DG. Prod., vol. viii. p. 23; Griseb. Flor. Brit. W. Indies, p. 390. 
Urricutaria alpina, Linn. Sp. Pl., 25; Vahl. Enum., vol. i. p. 194 (Eael. 
Syn.) ; Hook. Exot. Fl., t. 198. 
Urricutaria grandiflora, Pers. Synops., vol. i. p. 18. 
Urricunaria uniflora, Ruiz. and Pav. Fl. Peruv., vol. i. p. 20, t. 31, f. 6. 
To many who have seen this singular plant for the first 
time in cultivation, it will be a matter of surprise to be in- 
formed that it is a member of the same genus as the Bladder- 
worts of our ponds; and departs from the habits of most of 
its congeners chiefly in being terrestrial, developing hollow 
tubers on the fibrils of its roots, at the base of its stem, and 
minute imperfect bladders. The occurrence of these bladders 
is a singular instance of the presence of organs, typical of its 
family, in a member of it that can make no use of them. 
.U. montana is an epiphyte, growing on wet mossy trunks of 
trees in the mountains of the West Indian Islands, where it 
has been detected in Montserrat, Dominica, St. Vincent, 
SEPTEMBER Ist, 1871. 
