﻿436 LENTiBULARTEiE (Stapf). [Utricularia. 



7 ; Benth. Fl Austr. iv. 526 ; C. B. CI. in Hook. /., Fl. Brit. Ind. 

 iv 329 ; Aschers. in Ber. Deutsch. Bot. Gesellsch. iv. 404 ; Boiss 

 Fl Orient. Suppl 339 ; Batt. <5- Trahutt, Fl Alg. i. 718; Coss.m. 

 Fl. Ail 100, t. 162; Hiern in Gat Afr. PI Weltc. i. 786; 

 Kam. in Engl Jahrb. xxxiii. 112; Goehel in Ann. Jard. Bot. 

 Buit ix. 91-97. U. diantha, Boem. ^ Schult., Syst Mant i. 

 169; Benth. in Fl Hongk. 256; Wight, Ic. t. 1569; Ohv. 

 in Journ. Unn. Sac. iii. 176 and ix. 147. U. amhtgua, DC. 

 Ic. 9. 



Coast Kegion: Uitenhage Div. ; near the Zwartkops River, Drege, 

 Zevher, 523 ! and without precise locality, Zeylier, 509 ! ■„ . ,, 



Kalahari Region : Transvaal ; Magalies Berg, BurTce ! near Eustenburg, 

 Alice Pegler, 960! Spruit north of Yuckshyt River, near the sources of the 

 Limpopo, Nelson, 521 ! between Middelburg and the Crocodile River, Wilms, 

 1239 ! Bosch Veld, Buchenhouts Kloof Spruit, Behmann, 4759 partly! 



Eastern Region: Natal; Mohlamha Range, 5000-6000 ft., Sutherland. 

 Inanda, Wood ! Tongaat, Wood, 130 ! 



Throughout Africa ; also in Portugal and from India to China and Australia. 



Nelson's specimen represents a very copiously branched, almost matted state 

 with rather small flowers and fruits. 



II. GENLI8E5, A. St. Hil. 



Calyx deeply 5-partite, persistent ; segments equal or subequal, 

 ovate to lanceolate. Corolla 2-lipped, spurred; upper lip erect, 

 entire or emarginate ; lower lip larger than the upper, with a vaulted 

 more or less 2-gibbous palate and a deflexed 3-lobed margin. 

 Stamens 2 ; filaments curved, short, sometimes asymmetrically dilated ; 

 anthers dorsifixed, cells subdistinct or confluent; pollen globose, 

 smooth, with 3 pores. Ovary more or less globose, 1 -celled, style 

 short or very short; stigma 2-lipped, anticous lobe much larger than 

 the posticous ; ovules numerous, sessile on the free-central fleshy 

 placenta, anatropous. Capstile usually globose, circumscissile or 

 breaking up irregularly. Seeds ovoid, often very oblique, ex- 

 alburainous ; testa subtransparent, spongy, subbullate ; embryo 

 hippocrepiform (always ?), not differentiated. 



Rootless, terrestrial, annual (?) herbs, growing in swamps, with peculiar 

 pitcher.like organs (modified leaves) for the capture and digestion ot smai^ 

 organisms ; primary axis terminated by an inflorescence, producing at the 

 often very dense rosettes of leaves and frequently root- like organs {rhizouls),i 

 latter from the axis or the base of axillary buds ; leaves heteromorphic ; foliage- 

 leaves petioled, entire, spatbulate to saborbicular, persistent at the time 

 flowering ; pitcher leaves consisting of a stalk and a slender tube, cylindric tro 

 an ellipsoid base and passing into 2 long ribbon-like spirally twisted arms, 

 arms and the tube provided on the inner side with transverse bands ot sti 

 reversed hairs and the tube also with digestive glands ; inflorescence racemes , 

 bracteate, peduncled; lower bracts usually barren, adpressed; bracteoles 2, at 

 base of the pedicel. 



D'STBiB. Species about 7-8, in Tropical Africa and Tropical South'Anienca. 



