144 wANDKiA MONoGTNil. Utiicularia. 



Found swimming in stagnant water in the vicinity of CalcuUa, 

 at the end-of the cold, and beginning of the hot seasons. 



Stem jomted, length various, but often extending some feet — 

 Radicles most numerous, {n alternate fascicles, mulliiid, filiform, 

 armed with minute, acute, bristles pointing forward.— t/Z/ia/// scat- 

 tered, semi-ovate, dotted, becoming black by age, with two liorns 

 from the moulh.—Scupe erect, from four to eight mches high, bearing 

 generally from four to eight, alternate, large, yellow, pedicelled flow- 

 ers.— B;«c^^s ovate, obtuse, one-flowered.— CVr/yT of two large, 

 permanent leaflets— CoroZ as in the genus. J^ectan/ horn-shaped, 

 blunt, nearly as long as the under lip, and beudnig up to Us nungms. 

 — Capsules conical, pointed, reflected. 



3. U. bifora. R. 



Floating, leafless. Scape naked, two-flowered. UtncuU ovate, 

 with filaments from their apices. 'Nectary horn-shaped, ascendmg, as 

 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 ironi 

 their apices, or mouths. — Scape about three inches high, filiform, 

 naked, generally two-flowered. — Flowers yellow, small.— Crt/j/x and 

 coral as in the genus, with the faux closed, and a horned, uscendui;^ 

 nectary as long as the under Vip.— Capsules globular, erect. 



Addition 5y N. TV. 



4. U. nivea. Falil. Enum. i. 203. 



Naked, suberect, filiform. Scape with a few gibbous scales, 

 ending in a thin 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 noddnig 



