THE FLORA OF MANILA. 247 
hirsute with short scattered hairs, the lower one prominently 
glandular. Flowers solitary, axillary, pedicelled, or the lower 
ones usually in short, few-flowered, open, axillary, leafy racemes, 
the floral leaves similar to the others but much smaller, the 
racemes 1 to 5 cm long; pedicels hirsute, shorter than the calyx. 
Calyx hirsute, 5 to 6 mm long, deeply 5-fid, the lobes lanceo- 
late, acuminate. Corolla purplish, about 9 mm long. Capsule 
ovoid, 3 to 4 mm long. 
Luzon, near Manila, Merrill 7^32 (type), January, 1911, Phil. PI, 46^ 
Merrill, December, 1910: Province of Rizal, Mariquina, Marave 150, 
January, 1895: Province of Bulacan, Norzagaray, Yoder 16, December, 1906. 
I suspect also that Loher 4339, of which a mere fragment is before me is 
referable here, as well as Vidal 3383 in herb. Kew., both of which have been 
named Limnophila diffusa G. Don. While in a broad conception of that 
species the Philippine specimens might be referred to it, still the differences 
are apparently sufficiently great to warrant distinguishing our local form 
from the Indian one. Limnophila manilensis is unquestionably closely 
allied to L. diffusa G. Don, but differs in its sessile, not petioled leaves, and 
very distinctly pedicelled flowers. 
LENTIBULARIACEAE. 
UTRICULARIA L. 
^ UTRICULARIA NIVEA Vahl Enum. 1 (1805) 203; Trimen Fl. Ceyl. 3 
(1895) 270. 
V tricidaria racemosa Wall., var. filicaulis (Wall.) C. B. Clarke in 
Hook. f. Fl. Brit. Ind. 4 (1884) 333. 
In old rice lands, La Loma, near Manila, Phil. PL 761 Merrillt November, 
1910. 
Not previously reported from the Philippines, and here recorded under 
its oldest specific name. The Philippine plant, however, has pale-purplish 
flowers rather than white, as in the type of Vahl's species. India and 
Ceylon to southern China and Malaya. , 
UTRICULARIA TENERRIMA nom. nov. 
Utricularia scandens Oliver in Journ. Linn. Soc. Bot. 3 (1850) 181; 
C. B. Clarke in Hook. f. Fl. Brit. Ind. 4 (1884) 332, non Benj. 
Luzon, La Loma, near Manila, Merrill 8O41, September, 1911, in open 
wet grass lands, scattered, twining on the stems of grasses and other plants. 
Benjamin in the original diagnosis of Utricularia acandens described the 
slender twining form of U. wallichiana Wight, and attached the name to 
the corresponding specimens in Hooker's herbarium, and also so named a 
distinct species mounted on the same sheet, as described by Oliver, 1. c. 
Oliver in his consideration of the Indian species of Utricularia discovered 
this fact and redescribed Utricularia scandens Benj., this time basing the 
description on the other plant, there thus being two different descriptions 
of Utricularia scandens Benj., based on two quite distinct plants. It is 
believed that Benjamin's diagnosis should stand for the species as described 
by him, not as described by Oliver, and hence the necessity for a new name 
for Utricularia scandens Oliver, non Benj. 
