﻿U/ricularia.] lentibulaeie^ (Stapf). 438 



9. U. stellaris (Linn. f. Suppl. 86) ; an aquatic herb suspended in 

 the water by means of a whorl of floats on the peduncle ; stolons up 

 to more than 1 ft. long, filiform to f lin. in diam. ; leaves hetero- 

 morphic ; foliage leaves from a few lines to more than } in. apart, 

 rarely subopposite, 4-6-partite, usually auricled, rays J-l^ in. long, 

 compound-pinnate, midrib finely filiform to linear (up to more than 

 ■i lin. broad) ; pinnae 2-5 lin. long, segments capillary, minutely 

 setose, with or without bladders, auricles orbicular-cordate in outline, 

 l-2i lin. in diam., fringed or deeply and repeatedly divided, fringes 

 or segments finely subulate and rather rigid, rigidly ciliate with the, 

 cilia usually in bundles of 2 or 3, or the segments (in cases of 

 extreme division) running out into capillary flexuous minutely 

 setose threads ; bladders usually only 1 or 2 on each pinna, obliquely 

 globose-ovoid, |-1 lin. in diam., mouth truncate, oblong, naked 

 (always ?) ; floats in whorls of 4-6 (rarely fewer or more), usually 

 3-6 lin. below the lowest flower, broad-ellipaoid to ovoid, 2\-i lin. 

 long, with some reduced short pinna} near the apex ; raceme few to 

 12-flowered; peduncle 1-9 in. long, slender; bracts broad-ovate, 

 obtuse, 1-1 lin. long ; bracteoles ; pedicels 1-1 } lin. long (rare y 

 more), filiform and obliquely erect during flowering, then gradually 

 recurving, at last up to 3 lin. long and more or less thickened below 

 the calyx : sepals subequal, ovate-orbicular or orbicular, subobtuse to 

 rounded, l-U lin. long; corolla yellow, 2-2| lin. long; upper hp 

 rotundate-ovate, up to li lin. long; lower lip subquadrate, over 

 2 lin. long, palate very large and gibbous ; spur subcylmdric, stout, 

 obtuse, adpressed to the lower lip, up to 2 lin. long ; antbers 

 patelliform when open, i lin. long; filaments filiform, narrowly 

 winged, A lin. long; ovary globose; style short but distinct upper 

 stigtnatic lip 0, lower truncate-rotundate ; capsule globose, ^r-^/iJ- 

 in diam. ; seeds prismatic, 4-5-angled, i-f lia. across, Wo l'^- ^'g^^; 

 top face finely reticulate, angles narrowly wmged; embryo not 

 differentiated. %..&. Coram. PI H 42, ^1^0 ; ^Z. I«^. i- 143 . 

 Wight in Hooh. Bot Misc. iii. 91 wi(hfiii.;Ic. PL iv. t lo67 , J/- 

 Meyer, Comm. 2%l l BG. Prodr. Vni. ^ {ind var^coromand^^^^^ 

 Olio, in Journ. Linn. Sac. iii. 174 andix.m ; memm Cat.AJr 

 PI Welw. i. 785 (in part) ; Earn, in Engl Jahrh. xxxuu 107 {incl. 

 var. dilatata, filiformis and breviscapa). 



Coast Reoion : Swellendam Div^^; V" ^''C"\7'tre laX"^ Bi"r! 

 Zondereinde River, Zeyher, 4329 ! Uitenhage Dr.; by the /.wartKopa 

 Drige! Albany Div. ; near Grahauistown, ^f^^^- „g, ^32' 



Cknteal Region: Somerset Div. : ^o^^f. i^- r- B„rA„ 4.W! near 



Kalahari Region : Orange ^^1*'^'^,,'"^'°"^.,'. *, Transvaal : near Komati 

 Leeuwe Spruit and VreJefort, Barrett-Harnilton! If^"^^ River. Wihm, 

 Poort, Kirk, 110! on the Libombo Mountan.s by the Sab e 1 . ^ 

 1240 ! Bosch Veld, between Elands ^^^^ ^J^^^^^l' Jet Du"ban in p<.oU, 



Eastern Region : Natal ; Inanoa, tv > p ^ ^^ without precise 



Wood, 112! Sanderson, 903! ^y^^'^'^TL^'^B-' . Sl^^ of Bikatla and 

 locality. Cooper. 2880! Sutherland! Delagoa Bay, 



Mozakwen, Junod, 431 ! 



j-iofn^ rhachis (Var. dilatata, Kam.) and 

 Leaves with rays having a dilated rhacnis (, ^ ^ 



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