Utricularia. diandria monogynia. 143 



1. U. stellaris. Linn. sp. pi. ed. Willd. 1. 113. 



Floating, leafless. Scape with a verticil of bladders. 

 Corol without a nectary. 



Teling. Natsoo. 



Grows in sweet waters, appears and flowers during- the 

 rains. 



Root conferva-like, swimming in, and not on the water ; 

 I have always found small utriculi adhering- to its filaments. 

 Scape sub-erect, simple ; raceme above the verticil of bladders, 

 which rest on the surface of the water. 



2. V.fascicnlata. R. 



Floating-, leafless. Scapes naked ; racemes four to eight- 

 flowered. Utriculi sub-ovate, two-horned, scattered amongst 

 the fibres of the root. Nectary horn-shaped, ascending to the 

 edge of the under lip. Capsules beaked, drooping. 



Telinrj. Natsoo. 



Ben//. Janjee. 



Found swimming in stagnant water in the vicinity of Cal- 

 cutta, 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, multih'd, 

 filiform, armed with minute, acute bristles pointing forward. 

 Utriculi scattered, 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 flowers. Bractes ovate, 

 obtuse, one-flowered. Calyx of two large, permanent leaflets. 

 Corol as in the genus. JVectary horn-shaped, blunt, nearly 

 as long as the under lip, and bending up to its margins. 

 Capsules conical, pointed, reflected. 



a U. hifiora. R. 



Floating, leafless. Scape naked, two-flowered. Utriculi 

 ovate, with filaments from their apices. Nectary horn-shaped, 

 ascending, as long as the under lip. Capsules globular, erect. 



