﻿Utricularia.] lentibulaeie^ (Stapf). 435 



stolons up to }^ ft. long, branched, sometimes matted into cushions, 

 very slender, glabrous ; leaves all alike, 1-3 lin. apart, 3-5-partite, 

 1-3 lin. long, divisions multiSd, ultimate segments 5-8, capillary, 

 glabrous, terminated by a short fine bristle; bladders very con- 

 spicuous, replacing a leaf division or more often a basal segment, 

 1 or 2, rarely 3 with each leaf, obliquely ovoid, up to 2 lin. long, often 

 purple, mouth sublateral, delicately fimbriate, some of the fimbriae 

 often fused at the base, stalk very short ; peduncles l-l in. long, 

 slender, with a single broad-oblong obtuse or emarginate bract 1 lin. 

 long, 2-8 lin. below the solitary flower ; sepals equal, ovate-rotundate 

 or broad-elliptic, obtuse, 1 lin. "long ; corolla yellow, 4-4 J- lin. long; 

 upper lip ovate, entire or crenulate at the apex, not quite 2 lin. long ; 

 lower lip broad-rotundate, slightly and broadly 2-lobed, sides 

 deflexed, 3-4 lin. long, palate large, slightly 2-gibb5us ; spur broad- 

 conic, obtuse, 2|-3 lin. long; filaments linear ; anthers -} Im. long; 

 style very short; upper stigmatic lip obscure, lower rotundate; 

 mature capsule and seeds unknown. Hiern in Cat. Afr. PL Welto. i. 

 786; Kam. in Engl. Jahrh. xxxiii. HO {in part). 



Kalahahi Region : Trnnsvaal; near Pretoria, Kirl; 35 ! 



12. U. exoleta (R. Br. Prodr. 430) ; an aquatic herb, floating in 

 water or growing on liquid mud, stolons of varying length, much- 

 branched ; branches often fascicled, from a few inches to almos 1 ft^ 

 long, very slender, flattened, green and leafy or Reached and almost 

 naked; leaves varying considerably in '^\^'Sreeotdevdop^^^^^^^ 

 rarely more than 2 lin. long, very sparingly ^ f ^^t«^\"^"fjf .'f . "f 

 seveml of the segments represented by bladders or he w^^^^^^^ 

 replaced by a bladder, normal segments ^^«l^<^tly ^f P ^'^ ^^ j'tS 

 bladders obliquely globose-ovoid, rarely more than | In.lon^S mouth 

 subapical, trincate, with delicate branched fl'^^'J"^';^^ 

 flowered or reduced to a single Aower ; peduncle slender fih^^^^^^^^ 

 straight or flexuose, 2-3 in. long, rare y longer; bra s membranous 

 broad ovate, truncate or mounded, x hn long, lowest 1 or - oft^^^ 



barren ; bracteoles 0; pedicels finely A^f "^' P^i^f;^^"tJDals c^f, 

 erect, ol very unequal length, the longest up to 4 1"^- JP^;^,^^,:^^''; 



orbicular-elliptic, Ip to 1 1'- l-|v --^^2 ; u^^^^^^^^^ 

 after flowering ; corolla yellow 2,-3 lin Ion ^PP^ i;^,^^^^^^ 

 rotundate, entire or subentire, 1-1,_ Im. ion , , ^ j j^^,] 

 H lin. long, sHghtly 2-lobed or al-stenur palate muc^^^ ^. 



obscurely bigibbose, ,""°"*^^^yXrasTon<^ as or somewhat longer 

 deflexed, spur conic, obtuse, spreading, as ion ^ , jj ^ 



than the lower lip; 61^^^°*^ ^'^'^ir'^ttent ^'ary subglobost 

 anthers ellipsoid, 1 lin. long, f l^^ftbe'^bscure! lowe°r rotun- 

 style short but distinct ; ^^PP-'/f^^ Ss numerous, lenticular, 

 date ; capsule globose, 1-2 lin. m '"^^ ' ^ somewhat irregular 



i lin. in diam.. with a thin ^^^^ or tmn^par ^^^^^^^.^^ ^^^^^^ 



and often eroded wing around the ^a^-'"' " , pr. prodr. viii. 

 lenticular, slightly emarginate, undifferentiated. 



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