Tap. 8516. 
UTRICULARIA LONGIFOLIA. 
Brazil. 
LENTIBULARIACEAE. : 
Urerrounarra, Linn.; Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. Plant. vol. ii. p. 987. 
Utricularia longifolia, Gardn. in Hook. Lond. Journ. Bot. vol. i. p. 545; DC. 
Prodr, vol. viii. p. 666; Benjam. in Mart. Fl. Bras. vol. x. p. 241; species 
inter affines foliis magnis loratis vel lanceolato-linearibus basin versus 
longissime attenuatis insignis. 
Herba perennis, dense caespitosa, stolonibus interdum ad 1 mm. vel ultra 
crassis plurimis vero rhizoidisque tenuiter filiformibus copiose ramosis 
prope substrati superficiem utriculigeris. Uzéricult breviter pedicellati, 
obovoideo-globosi ore minuto basiscopo, 1 mm. longi, labio superiore bifido 
infra bracteis paucis subulatis sterilibus obsitus. Fores ad 10, laxe 
dissiti, bracteae subulatae, tenues, 5 mm. longae; bracteolae bracteis 
similes, 2 mm. longae; pedicelli filiformes, ad 2m. longi. Sepala_sub- 
aequalia, e basi lata ovata, tenuiter acuminata, sub anthesi circiter 12-13 
ignota.—O. STAPF. 
The Bladderwort here depicted is one that was first 
discovered in 1840 in Brazil by Professor G. Gardner, who 
found it growing in moist localities on Mt. Pedra Bonita 
near Tejuco in the state of Minas Geraés. It appears to 
have been introduced to English gardens some forty years 
later, and since then has been fairly common 10 English 
collections. The plant has been in continuous cultivation 
at Kew for about thirty years, and has during this period 
flowered several times, but has never flowered here so satis- 
factorily as it does at Cambridge, where 1t grows well in 
a tropical house under the conditions suitable for Nepenthes. 
The material from which our figure has been prepared was 
obtained from a Cambridge pn and was communicated 
by Mr. R. I. Lynch. Especial attention has been called to 
SeptemBer, 1913. 
