1847.] Linnean Society. 351 



December 7. 



E. Forster, Esq., V.P., in the Chair. 



Lieut. -Colonel John Bennett Hearsey was elected a Fellow. 



Read a " Description of a new genus oiLentibulariee, with remarks 

 on some Indian species of Utrictdaria." By M. Pakenham Edge- 

 worth, Esq., F.L.S. &c. 



Ge7l. Nov. DiUKOSPERMUM. 



Calyx bilabiatus, labio superiore 2- (rarius 3-) dentato. Corolla bilabi- 

 ata, tubo brevi, labio superiore brevissimo truncato, inferiore 3-dentato. 

 Stamina inclusa. Stylus brevis, stigmate dilatato. Capsula ovata, 

 oligosperma; placenta centrali libera conica in apicem producta. Se- 

 mina pauca (prope 6), ovata, test^ laxa striato-vugosa, iitrinque pilis 

 paucis longis caudata. Nucula compressa, submarginata. Embryo ? 

 — Yiexha. pusilla, acaulis, foliis radicalibus, radicibus utricuUferis. 



DiUROSPERMUM ALBUM. 



Hab. super rupes madidos, in Vishnugangetis valle, Himala; alt. 8000 

 ped. 



This little plant, the author thinks, forms a link connecting Len- 

 tibularice with Cyrtandracece, to which order its tailed seeds show an 

 approximation. Unfortunately he has not been able to separate the 

 embryo so as to be satisfied with its nature and direction. In habit 

 it resembles slightly some of the section Oligocista of Utricularia. 



Utricllaria (subgenus Oligocista) foveolata, radicibus fibrosis brevi- 

 bus, scapo simplici aphyllo 2 — G floro racemoso sinistrorsum volubili, 

 bracteis solitariis ovatis acutis basi-fixis pedicello vel longioribus vel 

 multo brevioribus, lobis calycinis pedicello longioribus ovatis acutis 

 coroUam subsequantibvis in fructu cum pedicello defracto valde auctis, 

 corollse labio inferiore vix concavo margine 3-lobo superiore bifido : cal- 

 care conico labii inferioris longitudine, capsula cernua calyce aucto 

 obtecta, seminibus majusculis compresso-trapezoideis rugoso-foveolatis 

 foveolis nitidis punctatis. 



Hab. in Bengalia, uliginosis, Januario. 



An U. uliginosa, DC, no. QG. vol. viii. p. 15? Flos purpureus, scapus ru- 

 bescens. 



Utricularia polygaloides, radicibus fibrosis, scapo aphyllo erecto plus 

 minus ramoso 2- v. multi-floro, squaniis adpressis ovatis acutis, bracteis 

 ternis exterioribus ovatis acutis interioribus subulatis pedicello com- 



