174 MR. D. OLIVEBj .Wis., ON NEW SPECIES 



publication as a new species. In IT, neottioides we find often 

 raanj'-flowered racemes, pedicels short, almost adpressed to the 

 scape, " flowers subsecund, subnutant," — altogether very sug- 

 gestive of its specific name. In Spruce's plant the few flowers are 

 not racemose, but with ascending or divergent pedicels 2-3 lines 

 in length. Benjamin, in his Monograph of the Brazilian Utri- 

 culariae, places this species under his section ' AmpuUce destitutes. 

 Folia divisa.^ Although I have not myself actually seen in the 

 typical plant either leaves or bladders, yet I think he is here in 

 error. In the present variety both occur, the leaves being entire. 

 St. Hilaire and Girard, in a paper, previously quoted, on South 

 Brazilian Lentibulariese, &c. (p. 31), state, in describing their 

 species — " Folia basi capillacea superius parum dilatata et divisa," 

 &c., but follow with — " an potius primum Integra, sed, paren- 

 chymate aquis mox destructo, nervi superstites ? " I append a 

 further description of the pedicellate form, which may be com- 

 pared with the plant of St. Hilaire by those botanists who possess 

 good specimens of it. It is not improbable but they may be 

 correctly considered as distinct species. 



Radix fibrillis utriculiferis instructa, utriculis gibboso-urceolatis prope 

 basin lateraliter brevi-pedicellatis. Scapus erectus. Folia parva 

 lineari-lanceolata integra obtusa, in petiolum gracillimum angustata. 

 SquamcB scapi 2-3 ovatae basi-solutae utrinque obtusae. Calyx lobis 

 fere sequilongis, inferiore autem valde angustiore ovato obtuso, ma- 

 jore abrupte v. late rotundato-cuneato. Corolla albo-vireseeus, labio 

 superiore coneavo ovato-rotundato integro calyeem plus quam duplo 

 superante, labio inferiore profunde trilobo, lobis lineari-oblongis ob- 

 tusis sequalibus, calcari saccate scrotiformi brevissimo obtuso. — Pedi- 

 celli fructiferi erecti. Capsula late elliptiea v. obovata obtusissima, 

 stylo subnuUo. 



No. 3238. U. angustifolia, Bj. (Linnaea, xx. pp. 311, 320). Flores 

 flavo-virides. Esmeralda. Flor. m. xii. 



No. 3735 ? Ad eandem valde proxiraa, differt corollse colore purpu- 

 rascente. Secus flum. Atabapo. 



The specimens of this plant are imperfect. 



No. 3241. Esmeralda, in campis.humidis, xii. 1853. 

 Scapus 6 uncialis, foliis ^^ unc. longis obovato-spathulatis. Flores 

 cserulei, fauce lutea. 



A single specimen with but one flower remaining. It corre- 

 sponds very well with the description of TI. hicolor, St. Hil. ; the 

 form of the leaves, however, of that species is undescribed. 



