the extraordinary plasticity of the leaves of this species in 
the “Gardener’s Chronicle,” vol. iii. ser. 3, p. 360, fig. 54, 
by Mr. Watson and in “ Flora,” vol. xlvii. n.s., p. 293, t. 14, 
fig. 3, by Professor Goebel. Under favourable conditions 
the leaves may grow out into bladder-bearing stolons or 
may produce from their tips tufts of leaves and stolons and 
rhizoids. This phenomenon is not infrequent in the genus 
Utricularia, but in U. longifolia it is unusually striking on 
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account of the size of the leaves. 
Descriprion.— Herb, perennial, densely tufted; stolons 
about 9/5 in. thick, numerous, and associated near the surface 
of the soil with slender filiform copiously branched bladder- 
bearing rhizoids. Bladders shortly pedicelled, obovoid- 
globose, the mouth minute and directed downwards, s\; in. 
Jong; upper lip of bladder 2-fid with the sparingly 
glandular-ciliate lobes incurved above the mouth, lower lip 
“obsolete. Leaves lorate or linear-lanceolate, rather obtuse, 
very gradually narrowed towards the base into a distinct 
petiole, up to 12 in. long, 4-J in. wide, bright green, 
glabrous. Scape slender, including the inflorescence up to 
2 ft. long, beset low down with a few subulate, sterile 
bracts. Flowers 10 or fewer, laxly arranged, bracts subu- 
late, slender, } in. long; bracteoles like the bracts, but less 
than half as long; pedicels filiform, up to 2 in.long. Sepals 
nearly equal, ovate from a broad base, finely acuminate, in 
flower $ in. long, 3-1 in. wide. Corolla bright purple 
except for the pale spur; upper lip wide-ovate, rather 
obtuse, up to 4 in, long ; lower lip suborbicular, emarginate, 
1 in. long, 14-1} in. wide; palate gibbous, blotched with 
orange ; spur whitish, rather acute, 3 in, long. Stigma 
subsessile, its upper lobe minute, oblong-obtuse; lower lobe 
transversely orbicular-elliptic, 41, in. wide, 
Fig. 1, bladders; 2, a single bladder ; 3, orifice of a bladder: 4 ah aha 
Pistil; 5, portion of corolla and stamens. 6 is eutive inne i 
enlarged except 6, which is much red. ree sketch of an entire plant :—al 
