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aequante v. breviore, inferiore calcar subaequante, calcari calyce bre- 

 viore vix longiore. U. ccerulece interdum noii parum similis, sed 

 corollse labio superiore calyce breviore, habitu firraiore, pedicellis 

 saepius brevibus firmis distinguitur. — U. carulea, var. stricticaulis, 

 Kcenig in hb. Mus. Brit. ; U. uliginosa, Vahl, En. PI. i. 203. ; 

 U. humilis, Heyn., Wall. Cat. 1 495 ; U. polygaloides, Edgew. 1. c. 351 . 

 hoc. :—a. In Ceylonia, Walker ! (C. P. 2090) Thwaites ! (sub nom. U. 

 ceerulece) Macrae ! Nilghiri, Lobb ! Malabar, PL Hohen. ! Mysore, Bw 

 chan., hb. Mus. Brit. ! Concan, Stocks ! Law ! Forma U. spiricaulis, 

 Miq. (v. supra). Prope Mangalore, PL Hohen. ! Quilon, hb. Wight ! 

 Concan, Stocks, Sfc.l Ceylonia (C. P. 2091), Thwaitesl—^ (stricti- 

 caulis). In Ceylonia, Walker ! (C. P. 2088) Thwaites 1 Coromandel, 

 Kcenig, Sfc. ! Mysore, hb. Wall. ! Bengalia, Edgew. 



11. U. SCANDENS {Benj. MS. in hb. Hook, (in parte), non Linnoea, xx. 

 309). Scapo tenuissimo volubili squamis paucis minutissimis ovatis 

 instructo, pedicellis remotis subremotisve sajpe brevissimis v. calycem 

 aequantibus, fructiferis plerumque deflexis, calycis lobis paulo insequa- 

 libus superiore breviore ovato-orbiculato corollse labium superius ob- 

 tusissimum integrum v. subemarginatum subaequante, lobo inferiore 

 ovato calcari conico-subulato dependente paulo breviore, calycis 

 fructiferi lobis obtusis obtusiusculisve capsulam ovatam v. ellipticam 

 subaequantibus. 



U. minima, gracillima. Scopus 1-4 unc. saepe volubili ssi mus. Bractece 

 minutae, ovatae, subacutae v. obtusae. Flores caerulei, plerumque re- 

 moti, pedicellis brevibus vel fructiferis calycem subaequantibus. Stylus 

 brevis. Semina minuta, reticulato-striata, scrobiculata. 



A sum mo corollae labii superioris ad apicem calcaris circiter 2 lin. ; calyx 

 fruct. Ij-lf lin. longus. 



Loc. Prope montes Madura^, Madras, hb. Wight ! 



Formae minori 17. Wallichianas (quacum a Benj. confusa est) similis, 

 sed calcycis lobis fructiferi plus minus obtusis parum inaequalibus, 

 pedicellis deflexis, corollae colore, &c. ab eadem dignoscitur. 



In the * Linnaea' Tvol. xx. p. 309), Benjamin describes a Utricularia 

 under the name of U. scandens, quoting as a synonym * U. volubilis ' 

 of the Hookerian herbarium. Referring to this collection, I find a 

 sheet upon which are mounted two very distinct species of Utricularia. 

 To each of these is a label attached bearing the name ' 17. scandens, 

 Bj.,' I believe, in the handwriting of its author. To the specimens of 

 one of these species the name U. volubilis, quoted by Benjamin, had 

 been previously affixed : it is to this plant, moreover, that his de- 

 scription applies; and from these specimens it was most probably 

 framed. These latter, however, are obviously referable to the voluble 

 and slender variety of U. Wallichiana, "Wight, while the other examples 

 belong to the very diff'erent plant which I have here described, additional 

 specimens of which were met with in Dr. Wight's herbarium. I have 

 thought it better not to import a new specific name for the species. 



