Tas, 6689. 
UTRICULARIA birtpa. 
Native of India and China. 
Nat. Ord. LENTIBULARINEX. 
Genus Urricunarts, Linn; (Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. Pl. vol. ii. p. 987.) 
Urricurarra bifida; erecta, dense cespitosa, glaberrima, foliis scapo multo 
brevioribus filiformibus obtusis viridibus, surculis repentibus vesiculiferis, 
scapis rigidis 2-5-pollicaribus remotifloris, pedicellis brevibus marginatis 
fructiferis decurvis, bracteis minutis, floribus breviter pedicellatis aureis, sepalo 
superiore late oblongo concavo obtuso, inferiore obovato, corolla labio superiore 
parvo rotundato, inferiore brevi 2-lobo, palato magno turgido, calcare 3 poll, 
longo lente curvo v. fere recto, sepalis fructiferis late elliptico-ovatis, seminibus 
obovoideis testa laxa scrobiculata. 
U. bifida, Zinn. Herb. ; A. DC. Prodr. vol. viii. p- 21; Oliv. in Journ, Linn. 
Soe. vol. iii. p. 182, Hxel. Syn. U. humilis. 
U. biflora, Wall. Cat. 1498, non Roxb. 
U. diantha, A. DC. 1. c. p. 21, Excl. Syn. 
U. Wallichiana, Benj. in Bot. Zeit. 1845, p. 213, non Wight. 
U. brevicaulis, Benj. in Linnea, vol, xx. p. 303. 
U. antirrhinoides, Wall. Cat. 1498 6. 
A very singular little plant, forming, under cultivation, 
mossy matted tufts of leaves in a pot of sodden sandy soil, 
above which the wiry rigid stems with yellow flowers, 
something like those of a miniature Linaria, rise in profusion. 
Besides these conspicuous organs, there issue from near 
the base of the leaves slender transparent threads bearing 
the characteristic bladders of the Utricularias, which, no 
doubt, entrap minute aquatic animals, as do those of our 
English floating species of the genus. Like so many other 
water-loving plants, it has a very wide range, from Nepal, 
Assam, Chittagong (where I gathered 1t in company with 
Dr. Thomson in 1850) to Malacca, and it 1s also found in 
Ceylon, China, Japan, Borneo, and the Philippine Islands. 
It is very nearly allied to another Indian species, Uz 
Wallichiana, which differs chiefly in having erect fruiting 
pedicels. 
MAY Ist, 1883, 
