Seeds of U. bifida were received from Mr. Ford, Superin- 
tendent of the Hongkong Botanical Gardens in 1881, which 
germinated freely; and the plants they produced flowered 
abundantly in September, 1852. . 
Drsor. Forming densely-matted masses of thread-like 
rhizomes giving off tufts of leaves and bearing obliquely 
orbicular very minute pedicelled bladders; mouth of the 
bladders lateral, overhung by two subulate processes 
depending from the upper lip. Leaves erect, one to two 
inches long, filiform, or slightly thickened upwards, one- 
nerved, obtuse, bright green. capes very numerous, two 
to five times as long as the leaves, slender, rigid, erect, 
simple or very sparingly branched, naked. Flowers distant, 
pedicelled, pedicels recurved in fruit. Sepals in flower 
small, upper about one-tenth of an inch long, shortly 
oblong, obtuse, concave, lower smaller obovate. Corolla 
bright yellow with a very large and prominent hemispheric 
orange-yellow palate; upper lip reflexed; lower very short, 
two-lobed, like two pendulous auricles from the palate ; 
Spur one-fourth to one-third of an inch long, stout, nearly 
straight, subacute, Fruiting-sepals one-fourth of an inch 
long, broadly ovate, acute or obtuse, enclosing the shortly 
oblong capsule. Seeds very numerous, obovoid, testa lax 
closely fitted.—J. D. H. 
Figs. 1, 5, and 6, Bladders: 2 ovary ; 3, stamens; 4, flower; 7, fruiting cal 
m + atta > 3 > > d > ? > fos 
and pedicel ; 8, capsule; 9, placenta and seeds i—ali enlarged. : 
