﻿426 LENTlBULARiEiE (Stapf). [Utricularia. 



lips fimbriate, the lower smaller ; peduncle straight or more or less 

 flexuous, filiform, usually simple, few- to lO-flowered; flowers 

 distant, usually spread over the whole upper half of the flowering 

 axis ; bracts ovate, about i lin. long, the lowest barren ; bracteoles 

 somewhat narrower than the bracts, of about the same length; 

 pedicels scarcely exceeding the bracts at the time of flowering, at 

 length up to 1| lin. long ; sepals subequal, rotundate-ovate to 

 orbicular, 1-1^ lin. long, slightly enlarging after flowering and 

 when enclosing barren fruits, more or less rolling in making the 

 calyx appear oblong in outline ; corolla purplish, variegated with 

 yellow {Meyer), rarely white, 3|-4i lin. long; upper lip about 

 2 lin. long, narrow, obovate to oblong, constricted towards the base, 

 rounded or subemarginate ; lower lip subquadrate, 2-^—4 lin. long, 

 usually spreading almost horizontally, palate drawn up almost 

 parallel to the upper lip, double-crested, crests dark, tubercled; 

 spur straight or nearly so, slender, subcylindric from a conic base or 

 almost conic, as long as or longer than the lower lip and usually 

 parallel to it ; anthers ^-ilin. long; filaments filiform from a broader 

 base, up to ^ lin. long ; style about as long as the stigma ; upper 

 stigma-lip narrow, oblong, shorter than the broad-ovate or orbicular 

 lower lip ; capsule globose, 1-1-^- lin. in diam. ; seeds irregularly 

 hemi-ellipsoid, more or less angular, about -} lin, high, top flat, 

 elliptic, about f lin. in diam. with a very thin margin ; embryo top 

 flat or slightly concave. A. BO. Prodr. viii. 20; Oliv. in Journ. 

 Linn. Soc. ix. 154 ; Kamiensld in Engl. Jahrb. xxxiii. 94, incl 

 vars. pauciflora and micrantlia ; Stapf in Hook. Ic. PI. t. ^ivo- 

 U. Dregei, KamiensM, I.e., 94 {in part). U. longecalcarata, Benj. 

 in Linncea, xx. 314 {from the description) ; KamiensM, I.e., 93. 



Var. 3, Engleri (Stapf) ; flowers 2-3, all iii the upper |-i of the flowering 

 axis; palate usually very markedly tubercled ; spur as loug as or shorter than 

 the lower lip. U. Engleri, KaviiensU, I.e., 95 {in part). U. songuinea, 0»'"-> 

 I.e. 153 {Burlce's specimen). 



Kalahari Region: Trausvaal ; Houtbosch, Selwiann, 5909! ^^4^''" ?" 

 Transvaal ; Magalies Berg, Burke, 104 ! Zeyher, 1424 ! Hooge Veld, by tnc 

 Ileuops River, Rehmann ! between Spitzkop and the Konmti Kivcr, Milnis, 

 1238 1 marsh near Rustenberg, Alice Pegler, 983 ! 



Herb. 



Wood, 4612 1 Inanda, Wood, 378 ! Kehmann, 8320 ! Amamzimtote, Wood, dUO. 

 Inchamba, Wood, 5811 ! 



U. Ungleri, Kam., as represented by Burke's plant and Zeyher, H2 

 practically the same collecting — and by Rehmann's specimen from the Henop^ 

 Elver, differs from the typical form mainly in the inflorescence, which consists o 

 very few flowers near the end of the floral axis. The length of the spur van^, 

 but on the whole it is rather shorter than in the Natal plant. Kamienski ai 

 refers to V. Engleri, a plant collected by Thode in the Drakensbergen anu 

 another collected by Schlechter on the eastern slopes of Constantiaberg, ^^P^ 

 Division (1424 1). I have not seen the former, whilst the specimen ot i 

 latter (in the Ziirich Collection), which I had an opportunity of examinuig, i* 

 imperfect to decide whether it belongs to U. livida, var. Engleri °^ ^ j 

 transrugosa. As to U. Dregei, Kam., I cannot find any difference ^"^r • jj, 

 between the plant from which Bentham drew up hi3 description ot u- '" 



