144 DIANDRIA MONO&YNLA Utricularia | : 
Found swimming in stagnant water in the vicinity of Calcutta, 
at the end of the cold, and beginning of the hot seasons. 
|... Stem jointed, length various, but often extending some feet,.— 
 Radicles most numerous, in alternate fascicles, multifid, filiform, — 
armed with minute, acute, bristles pointing forward.— Utriculi scat- 
tered, semi-ovate, dotted, becoming black by age, with two horns - 
from the mouth.— Scape erect, from four to eight inches high, bearing 
generally from four to eight, alternate, large, yellow, pedicelled flow- 
ers.— Bractes ovate, obtuse, one-flowered.—Calyr of two large, 
permanent leaflets.—Coro] as in the genus. Nectary horn-shaped, 
blunt, nearly as long as the under lip, and bending up to its margins. - 
—Capsules conical, pointed, reflected. 
8. U. biflora. R. 
Floating, leafless. Scape naked, two-flowered. |Utriculi ovate, 
with filaments from their apices. Nectary horn-shaped, Lo 
long as the under lip. Capsules globular, erect. 
Beng. Chota-janjee, 
Found with the last described in stagnant water near Calcutta, 
during the same seasons. A much smaller plant. | 
Root of a few, scarcely compound, filiform fibres, and some scat- 
tered, subulate nigrescent utriculi, with two or more filaments from 
their apices, or mouths.— Scape about three inches high, filiform, 
naked, generally two-flowered.— Flowers yellow, small.—Calyx and 
corol as in the genus, with the faux closed, and a horned, ascending 
nectary as long as the under lip.—Capsules globular, erect. 
Addition by N. W. 
4. U. nivea. Vahl. Enum. i. 203. ite 
Naked, suberect, filiform. Scape with a few gibbous scales, ¢ end- i 
ing in a few-flowered raceme. Bractes three-parted, the middle seg- 
ment adnate and sharp at both ends, the lateral ones minute. Necta” 
ry ascending longer than the lower lip. Capsules globular nodding: 
