530 LXXXiV. LENTiBULAlUE^. lUtricularia. 



15. U. Hookeri, Lelim, Nov. Stirp. Fug. viii. 47, and Fl. Prehs. i. 

 339. Scapes hleiicler, 3 to 5 in. high, bearing a single terminal purple flower. 

 Leaves linear, often \ in. long, not expanded into an obtuse lamina, but acute 

 though flat, accompanied by filiform fibres, some of them bearing small 

 utricles. Bracts opposite or 3 in a whorl, shortly produced below their in- 

 sertion. Pedicel 2 to 4 lines long. Calyx-segments ovate, obtuse, colourea, 

 about \\ lines long, usually unequal. Corolhi : upper lip much contracted 

 at the base, deeply divided into 2 oblong diverging lobes about 2 lines long; 

 lower lip almost reniform, entire or broadly 3-lobed, y to f in. across, the 

 palate with a small 3- or 5-lobed protuberance at the base; spur obtuse, 

 shorter than the lower lip. Capsule membranous. — T/. iamqnaJh, A. DC. 

 Prod. viii. 666 ; V. UneimfoUa, Benj. in Linna^a, xx. 306 (partly) ; U, lath 

 lahiata, Benj. 1. c, 315. 



Vy-. Australia. Swau River, Dvnmnwnd, n. 128, 508, Preiss, «. 1918; Toue and 

 Vasse rivers, Oldfield. 



Benjamin has, in the Hookerian herliariuni, named some specimens U. Utilahiata, others 

 V, nniflora and U, lineanfoUa ; his character of the latter is a compound of two or three 

 species, but appears to have been taken chiefly from Drummoud's specimens n. 508 of I- 

 Hooker L 



U, similis, Lehm. Nov. Stirp. Pug. viii. 4G, and PL Preiss. i. 339, and V. Preimh A. 

 DC. Prod. viii. 666, arc both founded on Preiss's specimens n. 1910, from Swan River, vvhic^ 

 I have not seen. From the descriptions of the two authors (which do not quite agree with 

 each other) the species only appears to differ from U, Hookeri in the lower lip of the coro la 

 more deeply 3-Iubed, a character in which U. IlooJceri and the allied species are variable. 

 Neither author describes the bracts as produced below their insertion, but Lehmaun states 

 them to be opposite, which, as far as known, onlv occurs in the groups of Z7. dichoioma 

 where they are always more or less produced. ' A, DC. describes a single 3-fid bract, 

 mistake arising probably from the 3 whorled bracts beinK so closely packed as to appeal 

 united. 



16. U, violacea, R. Br. Frod 431. Scapes filiform, 1 to 2 in. h^g^N 

 lieanng a single small terraiiml purple flower. Leaves linear or slightly spa- 

 tliulate, mrely almost ovate, obtuse, veiy small, often accompanied by hla- 

 rneuts, a few of them bearing small utricles. Bracts opposite, oblong, obtuse, 

 produced below their insertion. Pedicel sbort. Calyx-segments very obtuse, 

 rather unequal, nbout f line long in Hower, often l| lines in fruit. Corola 

 not 3 Imes long to the end of the spur ; upper lip shortly exceedmg the 

 calyx, obtuse, more or less but usually very sliortly 2- or 34obed or almost 

 entire; lower lip twice as long as the upper lip, broader than long, cretiately 

 3-lol)ed ; spur conical, horizontal, nearly twice as long as the lower HP; 

 Capsule membranous. Seeds minute.— A. DC. Prod. viii. 15; U. pemi- 

 nida, F. IMuell. Fragm. vi. 160. 



XT.l?*n ^"^^^^^^"^^^^^^^ond, «. 86 ami 213 ; King George's Sound, R- Brown; Mount 



Meville, near Knig George's Sound, F. Mueller. Drummond's specinicas in the Hook .;^J 



leibarnun were coufounaed by Benjamin with P.Vv.^.;;.//^/y-r to^'/M, ^vhich rescrnbk. it 



)n size, but 1. very readily distinguished by the bracts and cal/x. 



17. U. rueaziesii, H. Br. Prod. 431. Scapes filiform, 1 to 2 in- l^ig^; 

 beanng a sinole large terminal purple flower, reniarkable for its lone: spur. 

 Leaves Jmear-spathulate, 1 to 2 lines lono- on lon^- petioles, more abuniiani 

 at the time of flowering than in most species, aceompanied by a^^^^.f ^^^ 

 transparent filaments, a few of wliich bear small utricles. Bracts opposite or 



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